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Interviews, event recordings and poets galore from Scotland and around the world.
Jennifer Williams talks with Griffin Award Winning Canadian poet Ken Babstock about ‘the thingyness of things’, Paul Muldoon, the weather, Canadian garrison mentality’s effect on the work of Canadian writers and much more, including his own extraordinary poems. This interview is from StAnza 2013, and takes place in a tiny attic room at the top of the Town Hall, in the midst of all sorts of weather.
Ken Babstock’s 2011 collection, Methodist Hatchet (Anansi) won The Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry and was a finalist for The Trillium Book Award. He lives in Toronto.
Image: Ken Babstock, Toronto by Steve McLaughlin, under a Creative Content licence
Scottish Poetry Library Podcast
Interviews, event recordings and poets galore from Scotland and around the world.
