Claire Cameron's first novel, <emThe Line Painter,
was published in 2007 by HarperCollins Canada. It won the Northern Lit
Award and was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.
Her work has recently appeared in the New York Times, The Globe and Mail and on NPR.
"But how poetry can touch this utmost experience of being, before which language falters, I do not know, and can’t know, I am unable to know–unless I turn to poetry again...”
"I think most contemporary poets occupy a fairly humble place in the universe, that we have few Byronic illusions about our fame. The act of reading my poems to an audience will always be a bit scary."
These poems often resist the reader in the same way his speaker resists his father, but the book’s exploration of such distance creates a closeness between the reader and the…