Dear CNQ subscriber,
CNQ 78 is within a week of finding its way to the printer, and less than a month from finding its way to mailboxes across the country. At the moment I am aghast to report that yours is not one of them. So I thought it best to take a couple [...]
Posts Tagged
A Brief Word from our Sponsor…
Daniel WellsNabokov, Trilling and Lolita
Daniel WellsThe Canadian connection? That this discussion happened on CBC television’s Close-Up in the 1950s. What a golden age for CBC television! Today the likes of the boorish Heather Hiscox would have spoken over Nabokov and Trilling, competing with them for the camera. She would have castigated Nabokov for writing smut.
But what am [...]
Lazy Bastardism
Daniel WellsOver at the Poetry Foundation website, CNQ Poetry Editor Carmine Starnino writes about how boredom is essential to creativity.
I’ve never had a good feeling about writing poetry. Unease set in early, when I was about seventeen, and, after two decades, the deed still doesn’t sit quite right. I’m a victim, I tell myself, [...]