22. Adele Barclay

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 7:36 p.m.

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Ad\\xe8le Barclay talks all things poetry. Andrew is stoked to talk about Ad\\xe8le\'s new book. It\'s fun for all.

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Ad\\xe8le Barclay\\u2019s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Heavy Feather Review, The Pinch, Fog Machine, The Puritan, PRISM international, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers\\u2019 Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I\\u2019d Reach Out for You, (Nightwood, 2016) was nominated for the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection of poetry, Renaissance Normcore, was published by Nightwood Editions in fall 2019.

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She was the Interviews Editor at The Rusty Toque, a poetry ambassador for Vancouver\\u2019s Poet Laureate Rachel Rose, and the 2017 Critic-in-Residence for Canadian Women In Literary Arts. She is Arc Magazine\\u2018s Poet in Residence and an editor at Rahila\\u2019s Ghost Press. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territory/Vancouver, BC.

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Andrew French is an author who was born and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia. French holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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