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Ian Williams interviews David Bradford

I was never too keen on writing about family, but there was an element of coming back to poetry a number of years ago that started to unlock all of these things for me.

David Bradford

In this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian Finalist David Bradford discusses how writing Dreams of No One but Myself was a way to come to terms with family trauma, finding clarity in gestures of erasure, and meandering through other people’s historical dream spaces. The interview includes a reading of a poem from Bradford’s shortlisted collection, Dreams of No One but Myself (Brick Books).

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