In this episode, Tanis MacDonald encourages us to challenge the voices in the canon that do not satisfy, and examines her changing relationship with both walking and art.
She discusses:
1:06 | How poetry attracts people with its strangeness and makes space for two disparate ideas to sit alongside each other.
1:58 | Writing about a female experience of the city in her poetry collection Mobile.
4:40 | Reclaiming the “Crazy Jane” trope and writing about a character who is struggling to leave capitalism and colonialism behind.
7:06 | Considering questions of mobility in her forthcoming book Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female.
11:24 | Being vulnerable with students and using her own work to teach revision strategies.
14:26 | Her book Out of Line: Daring to be an Artist Outside the Big City and how to measure success as a writer.
Shut Up and Write
Word Hoard
Recommended Reading
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber
Unlikely Hikers by Jenny Bruso
Vancouver for Beginners by Alex Leslie
Homie by Danez Smith
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
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