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Secular, Incantatory: An Interview with Paul Vermeersch
Paul Vermeersch’s fourth collection of poems, The Reinvention of the Human Hand, comes out in a few weeks from McClelland & Stewart. It will be his fourth book, and a long five years removed from his last collection, Between the Walls. The wait was well spent, as the new collection is a surprising, mischievous, but dead-honest thing, written with more musical variety than any of his earlier books. It feels like a first mid-career collection, the work of somebody who has settled on a roster of lifelong poetic pursuits and has turned to face them fully for the very first time.
Poetry columnist Jacob McArthur Mooney spoke with Vermeersch, the latest in Books.Torontoist.com’s series of interviews with local poets.
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