Arts
Sadiqa de Meijer talks about her poetry collection, The Outer Wards. Andrew fumbles through questions and talks about Sadiqa's poem that he wrote about in his thesis. It's fun for everyone! ----- Listen to more episodes of Page Fright here. ----- Sadiqa de Meijer’s debut collection, Leaving Howe Island, was a nominee for the 2014 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and for the 2014 Pat Lowther Award. Her book of essays, alfabet / alphabet, is out now with Palimpsest Press. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario. Click here to attend Sadiqa's reading with Annick MacAskill and Klara du Plessis on 2 October, 2020. ----- Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.