Collaborations & Compilations

Calendar Poems

Marilyn Bowering on Poetry Interview by Ajmer Rode, translator into Punjabi of Marilyn Bowering’s Calendar Poems.  http://www.ajmerrode.ca/ Creative Process Q: How does a poem happen? Is inspiration necessary or do you just start writing it without any inspiration – like American poet Ashbury? Usually the poem begins with a feeling: I can tell one is [...]

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En Poemas y Dibujos

Exhibition in Spain   I’d met the artist, Mercedes Carbonell, when I was living in Sevilla in the early 1990′s. Subsequently, she designed the covers of several of my poetry books, and in 2004 gathered together and translated a collection of my poetry to accompany her drawings of women.  Her work is always full of [...]

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Many Voices

When I’m asked why I began to look for poems to include in Many Voices I tend to say it was because Robin Skelton, then my teacher, asked me to think of an important book that was absent from our literature and then do something about it. Although that is true, and it seemed obvious [...]

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