Weekly Round-up: Open Book: Ontario

Interviewed by Darryl Salach (The Toronto Quarterly)

The Toronto Poets – 5 Questions Series is a new series initiated by The Toronto Quarterly that is geared to providing the talented poets living and writing in the city of Toronto with a bit of a broader platform in which to explain who they are as poets and what they're writing about these days. The hope is to provide this information to not only lovers of poetry residing in the city but to the casual reader of poetry who might not be aware of some of the names being featured in the five questions series. Ultimately, the hope of this series is to inform Torontonians that poetry is indeed vibrant, alive and kicking ass in our city.

Catherine Graham lives in Toronto and is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections: The Watch (Abbey Press, Northern Ireland) and the poetry trilogy Pupa (Insomniac Press, 2003), The Red Element (Insomniac Press, 2008) and Winterkill (Insomniac Press, 2010).