Two poets got up and delivered verse in a way I’d never seen before and I was mesmerized. in East Vancouver called ‘The Church of Pointless Hysteria’. I didn’t know spoken word poetry existed until I hitchhiked to BC one summer, when I was 20, and found myself at a performance at an art space on Hastings St. How did you get started in spoken-word poetry? Was there a particular moment or season in your life that steered you toward art as a career?
It makes life (and creativity) more interesting. I just want to create things and so it’s less of a priority to cultivate one specific audience. I make art for joy and fulfillment and because it’s the kind of work I’ve come to realize I do best that is, in all its facets. At the end of the day, I’m not that strategic, in the business-savvy sort of way. I had a few concerns, sure, but they didn’t overwhelm me. When you first began your career did you ever have concerns, not in your work or in your creative vision, but in your work finding an audience? Your work has often sidestepped traditional, singular genres in order to merge and embrace multiple genres and has attracted a widespread audience. Her first book of poetry, At first, lonely, was published in 2011 by Acorn Press. She also works and performs as a songwriter and musician and has released 3 full length albums, picking up awards and nominations for each one. She regularly receives commissions to pen poems and speeches and has worked in this regard for such bodies as the Canada Winter Games, the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women, CBC Radio, and the National Film Board of Canada. Her creative collaboration with Andrea Dorfman, the videopoem How to be Alone, has had more than 5 million views on YouTube, garnering Tanya new fans and supporters from the world over. Tanya Davis was the 2011/12 Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
0 kommentar(er)
