Katherena Vermette, whose Winnipeg-championing North End Love Songs captured the 2013 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry, spoke to The Globe and Mail
An online biography of Katherena Vermette notes that she is known primarily for her poetry, but that she also dabbles in prose. Clearly some updating is in order.
Others receiving awards for their bodies of work are Calgary poet Weyman Chan, who won the $25,000 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize; Ottawa’s Frances Itani, recipient of the $25,000 Matt Cohen Award; and Vancouver’s Linda Bailey, winner of the $25,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.captured the 2013 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry, spoke to The Globe and Mail from her hometown.. Does one need to read the first book before the second?has her story sequeled in.
I firmly believe in who my direct audience is. First of all, it’s myself. My perspective is myself. I’m only speaking for myself. But I am also speaking to other Michif women and other Indigenous women and persons, The narratives are very female-centric, and they are very Michif-centric and Indigenous-centric. I’m very conscious of that.I intended to write it as a family story. I didn’t intend to talk about the systems.
She’s a swearer. It accentuates and punctuates her language. It’s there for a reason, whether the reason is anger or setting herself apart or just because she’s so used to it she can’t get out of the habit. I think Phoenix is all of the above.I’m on my best behaviour [laughs.] Actually, in some parts of the book, I took out a lot of the F-words, only because it can look awful on paper. You have to balance out what it does visually versus how you hear it when you read it out loud.
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