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Geoff Inverarity’s poem “The Woman Who Talks to her Dog at the Beach” evokes the joy — and the reminder of mortality — that sharing love with an animal always brings.
“The Woman Who Talks to her Dog at the Beach” was published by Anvil Press in Geoff’s debut book of poetry, All the Broken Things, which was nominated for the Canadian Authors Association 2022 Fred Kerner Book of the Year. The judges wrote, ...
Colin Thomas' FRESH SHEET
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Colin Thomas
July 28, 2022

1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous? How does it feel different?
Now that All the Broken Things is published, doors are opened, people are asking me questions, and I’m being invited to give readings. When people ask me where they can find my work, finally I can tell them, but now I have to start thinking about the next collection.
My recent work deals with the experience of aging, obviously something I couldn’t draw on earlier. I find myself thinking more about family, although as I write this, I’m realizing that my subjects haven’t changed much over the years. I suppose I find life more and more absurd these days. As a result I still find humour everywhere, and I’m still convinced that you don’t have to be solemn to be serious.
2 - How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction?
I was having some success as an academic writer, but feeling more and more constrained by the rigours of the genre and the need to get everything exactly right. I was always drawn to the creative, and while scholarly work has its own form of creativity, it’s limiting. Poetry allowed me to ...
Rob Mclennan's blog
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Rob Mclennon
April 29, 2022
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