Columnists
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March 13, 2017An Interview with Adèle Barclay
By James Lindsay“I'm not too interested in the reader needing to understand the private language...” - Adèle BarclayAdèle Barclay’s BC Book Prize nominated If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach out for You (Nightwood) ...
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January 03, 2017An Interview with Nyla Matuk
By James LindsaySearching for the root of modern identity, Nyla Matuk’s Stranger (Signal Editions, 2016) is as much cultural critique as it is confessional. Matuk questions the divisions we make between private and ...
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November 15, 2016“You can't write fiction on a napkin,” an Interview with Eva H.D.
By James LindsayThere is a strand of literature that aligns itself closer to the blue collar, working class values of general communication and accessible story telling than the “high-brow,” all encompassing grand ...
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August 25, 2016When I Read a Really Amazing Poem It Feels like It's Working Some Sort of Magic on Me, an Interview with Cassidy Mcfadzean
By James LindsayHacker Packer, the debut collection from Cassidy McFadzean, is a wild destination wedding between the colloquial and the archaic. So much is happening at this party, one is tempted to slow down, even ...
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June 27, 2016“These Two Things Are One,” an Interview With Kilby Smith-McGregor
By James Lindsay & Submitted by KevinKilby Smith-McGregor’s debut poetry collection, Kids in Triage, explores the in-betweens that exist just out of sight. Psychology/biology, art/philosophy, literature/legend all expose their connective ...
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June 21, 2016“I Want the Blur in There,” an Interview with Hoa Nguyen.
By James LindsayIn his introduction to Red Juice (poems 1998-2008), Anselm Berrigan describes the poetry of Hoa Nguyen as, “sonic environments made word by word, provoked by lived experience into forms that, as she ...
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May 20, 2016Domestic Epic: an Interview with Ken Sparling
By James LindsayTo fully appreciate the books of CanLit anomaly Ken Sparling, it helps to think of his work as a single statement told from different perspectives. Each book is a unique view, yet every time we meet a ...
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April 07, 2016On Fallout: an Interview with Michael Lista About "the Shock Absorber"
By James LindsayPlease note the views and opinions expressed by writers in the Open Book writer-in-residence program are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect those of Open Book, its staff or contributors__________________________________________________________________________When ...
