What the Poets Are Doing Product Form:Paperback / softback The sequence on Walter Benjamin

The sequence on Walter Benjamin manages to invent his last days while remaining true to the spirit of this fiercely investigative philosopher

-George Elliott Clarke

what stays with me afterwards are the 'science fictions' and their monstrous leaps of the imagination

each piece developing a distinct idea and carried by a pleasing cadence

where “Language / is a crash cart” that embraces all facets of living at once

What the Poets Are Doing Product Form:Paperback / softback The sequence on Walter BenjaminDescription In 2002, Nightwood published Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation, a successful first of its kind collection of interviews with literary luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Avison, Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier and P. K. Page, conducted by the younger generation of poets of the day. Sixteen years later, What the Poets Are Doing brings together two younger generations of poets to engage in