James Paterson is an artist and “imagineer” who lives in Ontario. His award-winning wire sculptures are influenced by a childhood in the “vibrant and visually textured Kensington Market area of Toronto” and have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Violet Nesdoly: What form did your early art take? James Paterson: I…
“Poetry may seem to be an indirect way of speaking, but it’s more direct in touching the affective, relational part of us. It’s the language of the heart for those who have ears to hear. It’s especially valuable to read Christian poetry.”– D.S. Martin, in a 2024 Faith Today interview D.S. Martin’s latest book, The…
The title of Madeleine Jubilee Saito’s book intrigued me. What, I wondered, are visual poems? And how would poetry be used to contribute to the climate discussion? As I paged through the book the first time, I could tell it wasn’t a usual book of wordy poems. In fact, there weren’t many words at all….
“Though I have never been to Mount Olive, New Jersey,I have spent years of my reading life on the Mount of Olives,trespassing, looking for a brown-skinned teacher…” writes Brad Davis in his book’s title poem, inspired by a news report of a trespassing teen in Mount Olive, New Jersey. The poem summarizes well the quest…
“I’ll be sharing my video story at an event in Langley,” Amy Dyck told us at the end of our March local arts council critique session. Maybe I should go to be a familiar face in the crowd, I thought. When I studied the details of “A Creature Chronicle,” however, I realized that stumbling upon…
“When I boil these leftover bones / to loosen the flesh and eke out / every bit of gelatinous goodness…”
My first thought when I encountered D. S. Martin’s latest book, Angelicus, was how on earth would he be able to compose a book’s worth of poems about angels? But after familiarizing myself with all 64 poems, I realized one could say he only scratched the surface. A very satisfying scratch it is, however! Martin…
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