Creative Writing Reading Series: Stephen Collis Q&A (09.03.2021)

Every week in term-time, the Centre for Creative Writing (School of English, University of Kent) invites a leading contemporary writer to read from and discuss their work.
During the Q&A on March 9th, 2021, Stephen Collis shared some throughts temporality, the Anthropocene, and his work in the UK with Kent’s David Herd and others on Refugee Tales.
Stephen Collis is a Canadian poet and the author of several books of poetry, including On the Material (Talonbooks, 2010) and three parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”: Anarchive (New Star, 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks, 2008, 2014), and To the Barricades (Talonbooks, 2013). He is also the author of three books of non-fiction: Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (Talonbooks, 2018), Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks, 2012), and Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks, 2007). In 2011, he won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for On the Material. His 2016 work Once in Blockadia was shortlisted for the 2017 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness. In 2019, he won the Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. He teaches poetry and American literature at Simon Fraser University.
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