What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
Books by my friends and fellow UBC grads, which is so wonderful! Ellie Sawatzky’s chapbook, Rhinocerotic. Mallory Tater’s, This Will Be Good. Kyla Jamieson posts full poems as well as excerpts on her Instagram, @eddy__lines. I love her work, and also love her educational posts about concussion recovery. I’m eagerly awaiting John Stintzi’s The Machete Tourist and Laura Ritland’s East and West to arrive in the mail!
Showing posts with label Joelle Barron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joelle Barron. Show all posts
Monday, 18 June 2018
Monday, 11 June 2018
Joelle Barron : part four
What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
To be honest, the first book of poetry I owned by a living person was Jewel’s A Night Without Armour. However anyone (including myself, now) might feel about the quality of those poems, my thirteen-year-old self learned what line breaks were, and that poems didn’t have to rhyme. That feels like as important a moment as any in my literary career.
To be honest, the first book of poetry I owned by a living person was Jewel’s A Night Without Armour. However anyone (including myself, now) might feel about the quality of those poems, my thirteen-year-old self learned what line breaks were, and that poems didn’t have to rhyme. That feels like as important a moment as any in my literary career.
Monday, 4 June 2018
Joelle Barron : part three
How do you know when a poem is finished?
I don’t know if I ever feel like my poems are really finished. There’s always something I’ll change or want to change later. I used to feel like they were finished if someone published them in a journal; now I’m not even sure if they’re finished once they’re in a book!
I don’t know if I ever feel like my poems are really finished. There’s always something I’ll change or want to change later. I used to feel like they were finished if someone published them in a journal; now I’m not even sure if they’re finished once they’re in a book!
Monday, 28 May 2018
Joelle Barron : part two
How did you first engage with poetry?
My grandfather had a book called, The Top 500 Poems (ed. William Harmon). It’s a tome with a watercolour painting on the cover in blues and greens. My grandpa used to read to me from it, mostly Lewis Carroll. I eventually ended up with the book, and would read, “The Lady of Shalott” every night before going to sleep. I later learned that these 500 poems were actually a very narrow view of what poetry could be, and that was a relief, because I thought most of these so-called “top” poems were spectacularly boring.
My grandfather had a book called, The Top 500 Poems (ed. William Harmon). It’s a tome with a watercolour painting on the cover in blues and greens. My grandpa used to read to me from it, mostly Lewis Carroll. I eventually ended up with the book, and would read, “The Lady of Shalott” every night before going to sleep. I later learned that these 500 poems were actually a very narrow view of what poetry could be, and that was a relief, because I thought most of these so-called “top” poems were spectacularly boring.
Monday, 21 May 2018
Joelle Barron : part one
Photo credit: Josh Loeser
What are you working on?
I’m working on a collection of short stories with a connected narrative arc. I have a lot of fears (rational and irrational) about the end of the world, and I’m putting them all into these stories. I’m also still writing poems the way I always write them, in short, intense bursts, every now and then.
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