In these remarkable conversations with poets from across Canada, readers will rediscover the wonder that drives the imagination. Angels, cyberspace, and prayer; the sex lives of vegatables, and medieval monks who lived in caves; travels across land and through ideas; all these and more are touched on in this collection. Canada?s most fascinating poets speak about their practice, their writing, and about their lives.
Poets Interviewed in Dream Elevators: Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Claire Harris, Michael Harris, Roy Kiyooka, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, P.K. Page, Libby Scheier, Anne Szumigalski, Fred Wah, and Phyllis Webb.
Beverley Daurio is the editor of Dream Elevators: Interviews with Canadian Poets, The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists, and of several anthologies of stories, including Sex: An Anthology, Vivid: Stories by Five Women, Love & Hunger: New Fiction and Hard Times. Her fiction has been published in Canada, Australia, England, and the US. The author of several books and chapbooks, including Hell & Other Novels (Coach House/Talon), Daurio has also published essays and literary criticism in journals and newspapers across Canada, including Books in Canada and the Globe and Mail.