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Scott Adamson

Biographie

Y S Lee is the winner of Contemporary Verse 2’s 2022 Foster Prize. Anstruther Press will publish her debut chapbook, Exit Permit, in late 2023, and her poems appear/are forthcoming in EVENT, Rattle, The Malahat Review, and other journals. Ying is also the author of The Agency (Candlewick Press), a young-adult mystery tetralogy about a women's detective agency in Victorian London.

Entrevue

Lisiez-vous de la poésie quand vous étiez à l'école ? Y a-t-il un poème en particulier dont vous vous souvenez ?

I adored the metaphysical poets - John Donne, Andrew Marvell. In reading them, I realized that smart, prickly, playful people hadn't changed much over hundreds of years. It was simultaneously reassuring and alarming.

Quand avez-vous commencé à écrire de la poésie ? Et quand avez-vous commencé à vous considérer poète ?

I started writing poetry in 2020, during lockdown. I've been thinking about language and culture for much longer than that – my first novel was published in 2009 - but for some reason, poetry always seemed much more intimidating. I thought of it as something that only extremely serious people did, and didn’t think I had anything to say from up on a pedestal. Then I joined a remarkable writing group and, every single week, the poets in it cracked open my heart and boggled my mind and showed me how wrong I was. It was utterly humbling and inspirational. I was lucky to have my writing group tell me, "You're a poet! Submit your work to journals!" and I believed them. But just the other day, a bookstore clerk asked me, "Are you a poet?" and I fumbled the answer. Maybe one day I'll stop being ambivalent.

Comment voyez-vous le « travail » des poètes ?

Keep listening, keep observing, keep feeling. But really, ideally, this is every artist's - and every person’s - job. It's how we connect with other humans.

Si vous deviez choisir un poème à mémoriser dans notre anthologie, lequel serait-ce ?

WB Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", because of its gorgeous music, and also for how lightly and casually he uses repetition and rhyme. And so I can say "bee-loud glade" over and over again.

Publications

Titre(s) du ou des poème(s)
Would You Rather
Titre
Australian Book Review
Maison d'édition
Australian Book Review
Sous la direction de
Peter Rose
Date
2021
Type de publication
Périodique/revue
Titre(s) du ou des poème(s)
Dyad
Titre
Malahat Review
Maison d'édition
University of Victoria
Sous la direction de
Iain Higgins
Date
2021
Type de publication
Périodique/revue
Titre(s) du ou des poème(s)
Rebuke the Ghosts
Titre
Rattle
Maison d'édition
Rattle Foundation
Sous la direction de
Timothy Green
Date
2023
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