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Alberto Manguel – God’s Spies
ALBERTO MANGUEL is an editor, translator and essayist. He was born in Argentina and since the eigthies makes Canada his home. He is the author of several books, among them A History of Reading, which was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Médicis. He recently published the anthology God’s Spies – Stories in Defiance of Oppression and a new edition of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. paulo da costa spoke to Alberto Manguel in Calgary. paulo da costa The stories in God’s Spies portray abuse of power in the context of several political, social and cultural backgrounds. In your introduction to the book you quote Robert Graves who says the writer’s…
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Robert Kroetsch – Imagining Alberta
One of Canada’s most accomplished authors, Robert Kroetsch was born in Heisler, Alberta in 1927. Kroetsch’s contribution to Canadian literature includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His first novel, But We Are Exiles was published in 1965, and in 1969 his novel The Studhorse Man won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. His most recent book is the long poem The Hornbooks of Rita K. He lives in Winnipeg. filling Station spoke with Robert Kroetsch during his Markin-Flanagan’s 2002 Distinguished Visiting Writer Residency at the University of Calgary. Robert Kroetsch: I grew up in rural central Alberta on a big farm. It was before the Second World War. This farm…
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Coral Bracho – The Transparency of the Poem
Coral Bracho visited Calgary and Banff on the occasion of PanCanadian WordFest 98. Coral is a poet of sparse words. She prefers her poetry to speak on her behalf. We sat in the lobby of Margaret Graham Theatre, at the Banff Centre, the Bow river meandering in the valley below. filling Station interviewed Coral Bracho and we explored her latest book of poetry, “La voluntad del ámbar” as well as the themes of water and light which permeate her work. Coral Bracho has written Peces de piel fugaz (1977), El ser que va a morir (1982), Tierra de entrana ardiente (1992, in collaboration with the painter Irma Palacios) and La…
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John Burnside – 10: Meadow
John Burnside was born in 1955 and lives in Fife, Scotland. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. His poetry cultivates an intimate relationship with the pastoral, a world of landscape and light. He has published six collections of poetry: Feast Days (1992), winner of The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and The Asylum Dance, winner of the prestigious Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000. His latest book is The Light Trap (2002). He has also written four books of fiction. paulo da costa spoke with him at the 2001 Edinburgh Literary Festival. paulo da costa: At this festival you stated being more interested in…
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Patrick Lane – Go Leaving Strange
Patrick Lane was born in 1939 in Nelson, British Columbia. He has published twenty-two volumes of poetry over the past thirty years and has received a number of awards including The Governor-General Award. He recently co-edited with his partner, Lorna Crozier, the anthology of essays on addiction, Addicted: Notes From the Belly of the Beast (2001). He has three books forthcoming, What We are Is A Garden, a series of meditations on life, art, poetry and gardens, Go Leaving Strange, a new collection of poetry, and New & Selected Short Stories. Patrick has traveled widely and has had his work translated into more than twelve languages. He presently teaches…
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A conversation with Paula Tavares
Paula Tavares was born in Lubango, Angola and lives in Lisbon where she teaches History at the Universidade Católica. She has published two books of poetry, Ritos de Passagem, 1985 and O lago da Lua, 1999 as well as a book of prose, O Sangue das Buganvílias, 1998, chronicles from her a weekly column in a daily newspaper. paulo da costa spoke to Paula Tavares on a warm November afternoon. We sat on a wooden bench by the Tagus River as ferries raced the gulls and shuttled people from downtown Lisbon to their dormitory communities along or across the estuary. paulo da costa: Your interest in the…
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David Albahari – Words are Something Else
DAVID ALBAHARI (1948), a writer and translator from Yugoslavia, moved to Canada in 1994. He has published seven collections of short stories and seven novels in Serbian. His book Opis smrti (Description of Death) won the Ivo Andric Award for the best collection of short stories in Yugoslavia in 1982, and his novel Mamac (The Bait), won the NIN Award for the best novel in Yugoslavia in 1996. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. A selection of his stories in English translation, entitled Words Are Something Else, was published in 1996 by Northwestern University Press. The English translation of Tsing was published in 1997 by Bayeux Arts, Calgary.…
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Onde Crescem os Livros?…..
CRÓNICA DE CALGARY (VIA TERRAS DO CAIMA) Por ironia, a primeira crónica de Calgary é oriunda de Portugal onde me encontro a matar saudades. (Como se porventura as saudades pudessem ser aniquiladas para não mais nos inquietar.) Aproveitei esta viagem para visitar a minha primeira biblioteca e reacender memórias dos princípios dos anos setenta. A biblioteca Ferreira de Castro, em Ossela, terra berço de meu pai, está situada no concelho de Oliveira de Azeméis. Na minha meninice a biblioteca era paragem obrigatória na viagem de regresso a Vale de Cambra, no vale adjacente, a seis km de distância, e após a visita semanal aos avós paternos; (assim como uma breve…
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Voz do Caima
É português, escritor, radicado no Canadá. No nº 4 de VOZ DO CAIMA foi apresentado aos nossos leitores, assim como o seu conto “Rosas, Lírios e Crisântemos” Aproveitando uma curta estadia em Terras do Caima, Paulo Costa concedeu-nos a entrevista que a seguir transcrevemos. Carlos Moura (C.M.) Começando pelas raizes, o Paulo Costa nasceu em Angola e veio viver a infância em Vale de Cambra. Fixou-se, entretanto, no Canadá. Tem saudades de Vale de Cambra? Paulo Costa (P.C.) Sim, de Vale de Cambra dos anos 70, um Vale de Cambra bucólico em que o Caima serpenteava ainda verde e límpido. Lembro-me dos meus anos de criança…
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Revista Portugal – 2005
Entrevista de Sandra Santos a paulo da costa a propósito do lançamento do livro de poemas notas de rodapé.
