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Montreal: Writers’ Paradise
“The scene is increasingly diverse,” observed Queyras, director of Writers Read, a Concordia University series that invites established and emerging writers from Canada and abroad to give public readings as well as master’s classes. “There are more readings at bookstores like Drawn & Quarterly and Argo, and at galleries like VAV and Phi Centre. There […]
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Elska mína
Originally posted on NewPoetry:
Sina Queyras ? You created me, you should remember me; leaned your face into the canto of …..my birth and broke air with me, breathed your best, your unrest Into me even as you bled, and my father—a taut shock of muscle—caught me …..as an Eagle takes a trout. It was… -
Shannon Webb-Campbell on MxT
MxT by Sina Queyras By Shannon Webb-Campbell Telegraph-Journal April 25 2014 Nothing is large enough to hold grief. Even language fails to contain it. Sina Queyras proposes a formula for grieving in her latest collection MxT, or Memory x Time, what could be this year’s most devastating and enlightening Canadian poetry collection. Known as Lemon […]
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Geist: Elegy for Photographs not taken
Thrilled, as always, to find a poem of mine in Geist. They lay things out so brilliantly.
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Review at The Rumpus
Very pleased and honoured by this review from Julie Enzer over at The Rumpus, contextualizing my work in a lineage of feminist poetry that I have long respected, embraced, and nodded at, but never taken on directly as a lineage or as an identity. I should talk about that more some time–why the reticence to something […]
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Thanks Winnipeg Free Press
“Queyras remains resolutely herself, crashing her voice against attempts to escape it in her most affecting, accomplished book.” —Jonathan Ball
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Ottawa, April 26
I’ll be coming your way soon, Ottawa. Come to the poetry cabaret. Ottawa’s own Stephen Brockwell hosts an evening of stellar poetry. Old Hat is the third book of poetry and first collection of occasional poems by Governor General and Trillium Awards nominee, Rob Winger. Driven by an attempt to understand how to reorder […]
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Interview in Vancouver Sun
Thanks to The Vancouver Sun for this–somehow it’s making the rounds. Q Tell us a bit about your book. A The book is a working through of elegy. It’s very personal, and yet it has conceptual and visual elements that make it a little more playful. It’s prosey, breezy, imagistic grief. Q […]
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Georgia Straight picks MxT’s strange lyrics for its book of the week
Poet and one-time Vancouverite Sina Queyras’s latest collection often speaks in dialects of engineering and technology, but only to express the most heartfelt human experiences. The book’s title, M x T (Coach House), is short for “Memory x Time”, an equation she sets down to reflect the workings of grief. These strangely lyrical elegies will […]