Christopher Pratt Artist Poet
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Christopher Pratt is one of Canada\\u2019s most \\u2018prominent\\u2019 painters. He is now also a published poet.
We talk here, in his home of St Mary\\u2019s Bay, Newfoundland on the Salmonier River, about his book A Painter\\u2019s Poems (Breakwater Books, 2005), about parallels between his writing and his art, emptiness, loneliness, cleanliness, juxtaposing real and imagined worlds, getting it right, abandonment, absence and how it draws in readers and viewers, leaving important things unsaid, seasons, a man drawing circles in the sand who, when asked why he does it, responds "Well, I\\u2019d be a damned fool if I didn\\u2019t," and about how creation involves sharing what is most intimate in order to communicate; in order to find out about and connect with the same in others.
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