Lillian Allen is considered to be the city’s godmother of rap/hip hop, dub and spoken word poetry scenes. As the Toronto's next poet laureate, the Star spoke with her about her approach to the role.
Lillian Allen is considered to be the city’s godmother of rap/hip hop, dub and spoken word poetry scenes.West Queen West was still edgy and centred the arts
You’re known as the godmother of dub poetry, a form which is so physically and verbally creative. How will that have an impact on your approach to this roleI would say that I brought that sensibility into the city some decades ago, with people like bpNichol and so forth, and lifted poetry a bit off the page. There’ll be work on the page too, because the page is important.
There’s are also a lot of what I’d call hidden information about the city. Some of it has been written before but, you know, not everybody is reading the Dennis Lees or Michael Ondaatjes, or even Dionnes beyond small bits and pieces about various things that happened. We have over 20,000 street corners.
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