Personals

• Ian Williams loved David Chariandy's novel Brother in 2017

Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, the poems in Ian Williams'Personalsare voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with each other, often to no avail. Williams writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don't end. With a deft hand and playful ear, Williams entices the reader to stumble alongside his characters as they search, again and again, for intimacy, for love, and for each other.

• Why Ian Williams believes that great writers can embrace juicers and Marilyn Denis

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Ian Williams

11 years ago

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Brampton, Ont., poet talks about his Griffin Prize nomination.