Fall 2011 • The Capilano Review

In the collectable Fall 2011 issue of TCR, Donato Mancini has interesting things to say about re-reading. “But ‘A poetry collection is like a record collection’ (R. Maurer). Bafflement, puzzlement, … Continued

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George Bowering / Hooray, Difficulty!

George Bowering

George Bowering As soon as I get up in the morning I sit down and read a few pages of poetry. Sometimes I read poetry that runs on the tracks … Continued

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Pauline Butling / On Lisa Robertson’s “A Foundering”

Pauline Butling

on LISA ROBERTSON: A “foundering” The current TCR begins with two poems by Lisa Robertson followed by a thirty page Interview with Lisa by Ted Byrne. As well, out-takes from … Continued

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Lisa Robertson / Object Permanence

Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson When a hawk flies in place, beating its wings in order to stay in one place, when a hawk flies without moving, when its wings flap in order … Continued

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Lisa Robertson / Slow reading

Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson Reading Hermann Broch’s Death of Virgil as the December days shorten has me thinking a lot about time and light. My bedroom window faces due east, over a … Continued

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Lisa Robertson / The Cabins

Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson We were eighteen and clueless. It was 1979. We met a couple on the road and stayed with them in a free cabin near Golden. A … Continued

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rob mclennan / There was something about the body: Sylvia Legris

rob mclennan

rob mclennan The recent disappointment that came as Saskatchewan poet and artist Sylvia Legris’ tenure editing Grain magazine ended is tempered, knowing that perhaps now she might return further to … Continued

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Pauline Butling / Remembering Robert Kroetsch

Pauline Butling

Pauline Butling Kroetsch has hovered at the edges of my awareness since his sudden death last summer. I often see his face (usually in listening mode as Bowering reminds us), … Continued

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George Bowering / On Kroetsch the Listener

George Bowering

George Bowering Years and years ago I had it figured out that Robert Kroetsch was the writer to read, and looked forward to whatever he might write in my lifetime. … Continued

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AUDIO / Robert Kroetsch reading at Capilano College on November 6, 1980

The Editors

November 6, 1980

Interviews

Deleted Scenes – from Ted Byrne’s interview with Lisa Robertson

Ted Byrne

Deleted Scenes Layering and Repetition LR…Layer upon layer on canvas, whether you’re talking about traditional representation with under-painting and building up of darks and lights or … TB Putting a … Continued

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VIDEO / Lisa Robertson and Catriona Strang reading at Capilano College in March 1995

Lisa Robertson and Catriona Strang

Lisa Robertson and Catriona Strang reading at Capilano College in March, 1995. Lisa reads from Debbie: An Epic and Catriona reads fragments.

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