by Andrew French
Andrew French interviews established and emerging authors about breaking through as writers and finding their literary style.
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April 16, 2025
<p>Marc Perez comes on the show to talk about chapbooks, form, and his debut full-length poetry collection, <a href="https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/dayo-by-marc-perez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Dayo</a>. Andrew asks about finding the right form for your poem. It's a great time!</p><p>--</p><p>Chapbook launch info: Featuring Marc Perez , Andrew French, and Kevin Spenst! See you on Saturday, April 19, 5pm at the Teck Gallery SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver.</p><p>--Marc Perez is the author of <a href="https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/dayo-by-marc-perez/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Dayo</a> (Brick Books, 2024) and the chapbook, <a href="https://www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products/domus-by-marc-perez" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Domus </a>(Anstruther Press, 2025). His work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, EVENT, CV2, PRISM international, and Vallum, among others. In his free time, he likes to wander with his camera and document fleeting moments around the city.</p><p>--</p><p>Andrew French is a poet from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published three chapbooks, most recently Buoyhood (forthcoming with Alfred Gustav Press, 2025). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and have hosted this very podcast since 2019.</p>
March 19, 2025
<p><strong>MA|DE (Mark Laliberte & Jade Wallace)</strong> pop by to talk about their debut collaborative full-length poetry collection, <a href="https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/zzoo-made/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">ZZOO</a>. Andrew tries to wrap their head around writing with another person. It's a fun one!</p><p>--</p><p>Subscribe to get Andrew's 3rd chapbook, Buoyhood, <a href="https://d-zieroth.squarespace.com/the-alfred-gustav-press" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">at this link</a> and come to the launch alongside chapbooks from Marc Perez and Kevin Spenst! April 19, 5pm, Teck Gallery SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver.--<strong>MA|DE</strong> (est. 2018) is a collaborative writing entity, a unity of two voices fused into a single, poetic third. It is the name given to the joint authorship of Mark Laliberte and Jade Wallace. MA|DE's published work comprises 4 chapbooks, including the bpNichol Award-shortlisted A Trip to the ZZOO from Collusion Books, and debut full-length poetry collection, ZZOO (released with 5 variant animal-themed covers), out now from Palimpsest Press. Their follow-up book, Detourism, is forthcoming in 2028. More: <a href="http://ma-de.ca/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">ma-de.ca</a></p><p>--</p><p><strong>Andrew French</strong> is a poet from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published three chapbooks, most recently Buoyhood (forthcoming with Alfred Gustav Press, 2025). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and have hosted this very podcast since 2019.</p>
February 22, 2025
<p><strong>Annick MacAskill</strong> is back to talk compiling her latest collection, <a href="http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554472680" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Votive</a> (Gaspereau Press). Andrew asks about book length and queer poems. It's a good one!</p><p>--</p><p><strong>Annick MacAskill</strong> is the author of four full-length books of poetry, including Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), which won the Governor General's Award. Her most recent collection is Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024). She is also the publisher of Opaat Press, a micropress focused on publishing pamphlets of individual poems. MacAskill lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq. </p><p>--</p><p><strong>Andrew French</strong> is a poet from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published three chapbooks, most recently Buoyhood (forthcoming with Alfred Gustav Press, 2025). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and have hosted this very podcast since 2019.</p>
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