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In this powerful lecture, part memory, part library, part introspection, Dionne Brand charts her inspiring and radical journey as young poet through the struggles and transformations, both personal and political, wrought upon her world. Within these pages is an exploration of what poetry itself can accomplish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn act, which will precipitate other acts,
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Dionne Brand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPoetry revealed itself to me as a continuous sentence, which could touch the inseparableness of things, which could combine and recompose those cultural scripts into a heterogenous discourse that neither denied their conflict nor their entanglement. The realization of the long sentence\u2014the phrase touching and escaping the phrase; the multiple register, multiple tonal, multiple lingual sentence coincided with, and was indebted to, the political ferment of the 60s and 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What made me think that my poetry could add to the social and political transformations going on at the time, I don\u2019t know. And, why poetry? Because I thought then, and still do, that poetry was\/is some kind of perfect speech, some way at getting at the core of things, their true meanings; some kind of honest submission to life. Why writing at all? Because somehow I figured out that words were durable, expansive, perhaps because I had understood their effects in creating what I call in another work the \u2018fictions\u2019 of Africans in the New World. And I understood that these fictions took place regardless of the actual, the real lives lived. Perhaps even back then, as a child, as a teenager, it seemed to me compelling to rewrite these fictions.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Dionne Brand<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dionne Brand<\/strong> has degrees from University of Toronto and OISE. She teaches at University of Guelph and has been a professor at St. Lawrence University and SFU. She was the founder and editor of Our Lives<\/em>, Canada\u2019s first newspaper for black women, and worked on Fuse Magazine, The Harriet Tubman Review, Canadian Women Studies <\/em>and is a poetry editor at Brick <\/em>and McClelland & Stewart. Her writing has won the Governor General\u2019s Award for Poetry, the Trillium Prize, the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, the Harbourfront Writers\u2019 Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Read an interview with Dionne Brand<\/mark><\/strong><\/a> in Portal <\/em>2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fore Day Morning<\/em> (1978)
Earth Magic<\/em> (1979)
Primitive Offensive<\/em> (1982)
Winter Epigrams<\/em> (1983)
Chronicles of the Hostile Sun<\/em> (1984)
No Language Is Neutral<\/em> (1990)
Land to Light On<\/em> (1997)
thirsty<\/em> (2002)
Inventory<\/em> (2006)
Ossuaries<\/em> (2010)
The Blue Clerk<\/em> (2018)
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Brand’s <\/strong>non-fiction<\/mark> includes Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots<\/em> (1986);\u00a0No Burden to Carry<\/em> (1991); Imagination, Representation, and Culture<\/em> (1994); We’re Rooted Here and They Can\u2019t Pull Us Up<\/em> (1994); Bread Out of Stone<\/em> (1994); A Map to the Door of No Return<\/em> (2001); and An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading<\/em> (2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her fiction<\/mark> includes San Souci and Other Stories<\/em> (1988); In Another Place, Not Here<\/em> (1996); At the Full and Change of the Moon<\/em> (1999); What We All Long For<\/em> (2005); Love Enough<\/em> (2014); <\/em>and Theory<\/em> (2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brand was part of the editorial team for both The Journey Prize Stories<\/em> (2007) and The Unpublished City<\/em> (2017) anthologies. She has also directed or been involved with the documentaries<\/mark> Older, Stronger, Wiser<\/em> (1989); Sisters in the Struggle<\/em> (1991); Long Time Comin\u2019<\/em> (1991); Listening for Something<\/em> (1996); Beyond Borders<\/em> (1999); Under One Sky<\/em> (1999); and Borderless<\/em> (2006).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fore Day Morning<\/em> (1978)
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Primitive Offensive<\/em> (1982)
Winter Epigrams<\/em> (1983)
Chronicles of the Hostile Sun<\/em> (1984)
No Language Is Neutral<\/em> (1990)
Land to Light On<\/em> (1997)
thirsty<\/em> (2002)
Inventory<\/em> (2006)
Ossuaries<\/em> (2010)
The Blue Clerk<\/em> (2018)
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Brand’s <\/strong>non-fiction<\/mark> includes Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots<\/em> (1986); No Burden to Carry<\/em> (1991); Imagination, Representation, and Culture<\/em> (1994); We’re Rooted Here and They Can\u2019t Pull Us Up<\/em> (1994); Bread Out of Stone<\/em> (1994); A Map to the Door of No Return<\/em> (2001); and An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading<\/em> (2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her fiction<\/mark> includes San Souci and Other Stories<\/em> (1988); In Another Place, Not Here<\/em> (1996); At the Full and Change of the Moon<\/em> (1999); What We All Long For<\/em> (2005); Love Enough<\/em> (2014); <\/em>and Theory<\/em> (2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brand was part of the editorial team for both The Journey Prize Stories<\/em> (2007) and The Unpublished City<\/em> (2017) anthologies. She has also directed or been involved with the documentaries<\/mark> Older, Stronger, Wiser<\/em> (1989); Sisters in the Struggle<\/em> (1991); Long Time Comin\u2019<\/em> (1991); Listening for Something<\/em> (1996); Beyond Borders<\/em> (1999); Under One Sky<\/em> (1999); and Borderless<\/em> (2006).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A KIND OF PERFECT SPEECH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dionne Brand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this powerful lecture, part memory, part library, part introspection, Dionne Brand charts her inspiring and radical journey as young poet through the struggles and transformations, both personal and political, wrought upon her world. Within these pages is an exploration of what poetry itself can accomplish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPoetry revealed itself to me as a continuous sentence, which could touch the inseparableness of things, which could combine and recompose those cultural scripts into a heterogenous discourse that neither denied their conflict nor their entanglement. The realization of the long sentence\u2014the phrase touching and escaping the phrase; the multiple register, multiple tonal, multiple lingual sentence coincided with, and was indebted to, the political ferment of the 60s and 70s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What made me think that my poetry could add to the social and political transformations going on at the time, I don\u2019t know. And, why poetry? Because I thought then, and still do, that poetry was\/is some kind of perfect speech, some way at getting at the core of things, their true meanings; some kind of honest submission to life. Why writing at all? Because somehow I figured out that words were durable, expansive, perhaps because I had understood their effects in creating what I call in another work the \u2018fictions\u2019 of Africans in the New World. And I understood that these fictions took place regardless of the actual, the real lives lived. Perhaps even back then, as a child, as a teenager, it seemed to me compelling to rewrite these fictions.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2014Dionne Brand<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Wayman<\/strong> holds an MFA from the University of California and worked as a reporter for The Vancouver Sun. <\/em>He has been writer-in-residence at the universities of Windsor, Alberta, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Toronto as well as at SFU. His bibliography includes over twenty poetry collections, and he co-founded the Kootenay School of the Arts and the Vancouver Industrial Writers\u2019 Union. He has been the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He received the Acorn-Plantos Award in 2013 and the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, and he was named a Vancouver Literary Landmark in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Read an interview with Tom Wayman<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> in Portal <\/em>2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dionne Brand<\/strong> has degrees from University of Toronto and OISE. She teaches at University of Guelph and has been a professor at St. Lawrence University and SFU. She was the founder and editor of Our Lives<\/em>, Canada\u2019s first newspaper for black women, and worked on Fuse Magazine, The Harriet Tubman Review, Canadian Women Studies <\/em>and is a poetry editor at Brick <\/em>and McClelland & Stewart. Her writing has won the Governor General\u2019s Award for Poetry, the Trillium Prize, the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, the Harbourfront Writers\u2019 Prize, and the Toronto Book Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fore Day Morning<\/em> (1978)
Earth Magic<\/em> (1979)
Primitive Offensive<\/em> (1982)
Winter Epigrams<\/em> (1983)
Chronicles of the Hostile Sun<\/em> (1984)
No Language Is Neutral<\/em> (1990)
Land to Light On<\/em> (1997)
thirsty<\/em> (2002)
Inventory<\/em> (2006)
Ossuaries<\/em> (2010)
The Blue Clerk<\/em> (2018)
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Brand’s <\/strong>non-fiction<\/mark> includes Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots<\/em> (1986);\u00a0No Burden to Carry<\/em> (1991); Imagination, Representation, and Culture<\/em> (1994); We’re Rooted Here and They Can\u2019t Pull Us Up<\/em> (1994); Bread Out of Stone<\/em> (1994); A Map to the Door of No Return<\/em> (2001); and An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading<\/em> (2020). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her fiction<\/mark> includes San Souci and Other Stories<\/em> (1988); In Another Place, Not Here<\/em> (1996); At the Full and Change of the Moon<\/em> (1999); What We All Long For<\/em> (2005); Love Enough<\/em> (2014); <\/em>and Theory<\/em> (2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brand was part of the editorial team for both The Journey Prize Stories<\/em> (2007) and The Unpublished City<\/em> (2017) anthologies. She has also directed or been involved with the documentaries<\/mark> Older, Stronger, Wiser<\/em> (1989); Sisters in the Struggle<\/em> (1991); Long Time Comin\u2019<\/em> (1991); Listening for Something<\/em> (1996); Beyond Borders<\/em> (1999); Under One Sky<\/em> (1999); and Borderless<\/em> (2006).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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