by Steven W. Beattie

“She made being human into an art”: Remembering Teva Harrison, 1976–2019

I’ve never believed in an afterlife, not really. I was raised with a mishmash of beliefs, a cherry-picked amalgam of spirituality and magic, cobbled together from family tradition and Eastern practices. And most of them ... Read More »

May 10, 2019

Joseph Kertes on the life and legacy of Wayson Choy

By Steven W. Beattie

It seems too soon to be relegating Wayson Choy to memory. He was such a vital presence mere days ago. And he glowed everywhere he went. Often when I thought of what it meant to ... Read More »

May 6, 2019

How the Canada Council makes a small press an uncertain investment

By Steven W. Beattie

For almost a decade, Tim Inkster, co-owner and publisher of the Erin, Ontario, press The Porcupine’s Quill, has been getting “unsubtle suggestions” about his advancing age from granting officers at the Canada Council for the ... Read More »

April 29, 2019

A.F. Moritz on being poet laureate, his new chapbook, and “the glory and the tragedy of being human”

By Steven W. Beattie

A.F. Moritz is not enamoured with our ersatz condo culture. The poet and professor is sitting in an apartment in Toronto, looking out the window at a new development going up across the street. “The ... Read More »

April 25, 2019

This wild menagerie: remembering Joe Rosenblatt, 1933–2019

By Steven W. Beattie

Joe Rosenblatt's iconoclastic proclivity and linguistic abandon were apparent right from the start of his long and lauded career. The Toronto-born writer and artist – who relocated to Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island in 1980 ... Read More »

April 1, 2019

Poetry month: A roundtable discussion with Karen Solie, Doyali Islam, and Matthew Walsh

By Steven W. Beattie

For this year’s Poetry Month feature, Q&Q brought together three Canadian poets at various career stages for a conversation about craft and process. Karen Solie is the author of five books of poetry. Her collection ... Read More »

April 1, 2019

“I think it was poetry that saved me from killing myself or killing others”: remembering Patrick Lane, 1939–2019

By Steven W. Beattie

Brian Brett, the B.C. writer and poet, still recalls the first time he met Patrick Lane. It was 1971, and Lane had appeared in fellow writer Seymour Mayne’s basement apartment at the University of British ... Read More »

March 11, 2019

A.F. Moritz named Toronto’s sixth poet laureate

By Steven W. Beattie

“We won’t pretend we’re not hungry for distinction / but what can ever distinguish us enough?” asks poet A.F. Moritz in his 1999 collection Rest on the Flight into Egypt. While the answer provided in ... Read More »

March 6, 2019

Randy Boyagoda, Donna Bailey Nurse, and Aleksandar Hemon headline the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury

By Steven W. Beattie

No sooner has Donna Bailey Nurse finished reading true stories as a member of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction jury than she will begin immersing herself in novels and short fiction ... Read More »

January 28, 2019

The complicated legacy of former publisher Jack Stoddart

By Steven W. Beattie

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January 28, 2019

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“She made being human into an art”: Remembering Teva Harrison, 1976–2019

Joseph Kertes on the life and legacy of Wayson Choy

How the Canada Council makes a small press an uncertain investment

A.F. Moritz on being poet laureate, his new chapbook, and “the glory and the tragedy of being human”

This wild menagerie: remembering Joe Rosenblatt, 1933–2019

Poetry month: A roundtable discussion with Karen Solie, Doyali Islam, and Matthew Walsh

“I think it was poetry that saved me from killing myself or killing others”: remembering Patrick Lane, 1939–2019

A.F. Moritz named Toronto’s sixth poet laureate

Randy Boyagoda, Donna Bailey Nurse, and Aleksandar Hemon headline the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury

The complicated legacy of former publisher Jack Stoddart

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