Goodbye! Goodbye!

Submitted by gmurray on November 30, 2010 - 9:31am
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Well, this is it for me at Open Book Toronto as your writer in residence. I hope you found the variety of responses and perspectives in the Questionless Books Interviews below fun and refreshing. My understanding is that this series will now continue as a weekly column, which I'll curate on behalf of OBT and the good people there. I'm going to add and subtract some questions, so if you have any suggestions for things you'd like me to ask the future literary celebs I'll be approaching, please go ahead and send to my OpenBookTO email, reachable from my writer in residence page.

Thanks to Clelia, Amy, and all the people who make this vital resource and literary entertainment portal the wild success that it is. The city is richer for having it, and I'm pleased to have been a part of it, even for a short time!

George

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Submitted by gmurray on April 29, 2011 - 10:15am

The Questionless Books Interview: Poet Susan Musgrave

In The Questionless Books Interview, I get a whole bunch of books people (from authors to editors to publishers to sales/publicity/production people, booksellers, designers, librarians, readers, etc) to "answer" a series of unspoken "questions". The results highlight a delightful mix of the opportunities and challenges facing our sector: from doom and gloom to sunshine and rainbows, and every irony in between.

Susan Musgrave’s most recent collection of poetry is Origami Dove (M&S, 2011). She lives on Haida Gwaii and teaches in the University of British Columbia's Optional- Residency MFA in Creative Writing Programme.

A Toronto bookseller writes, “The ultimate combination of books for Anarchist Grade Nine (to 12) girls: “Story of O” and “Things That Keep and Do Not Change” (poetry) by Susan Musgrave. Someone should offer those two books as a package deal; Susan would become rich off poetry royalties.” Her all-time favourite review of her poetry came from a high school student after she gave a reading of her work: “Susan Musgrave has made me hate poetry a little less.”

Susan's Links:

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George Murray

George Murray’s six books of poetry include The Rush to Here and The Hunter. His most recent books, Whiteout and Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms, are published by ECW Press. He is the editor of the popular literary website Bookninja.com.

Go to George Murray’s Author Page