I feel like I’m documenting a feeling of being alienation from the world, or the sense that one despises the world. I think in this instance this book is sort of angsty. But, I think that how one encounters it is motored by their social position, their age, etc.
You describe it as “an invitation to cut a hole in the sky to the world inside.” What do you mean by that exactly?īilly-Ray: I think it’s always a bit of a losing game to try to mine meaning from something in a poem. Vincent: Let’s go back to your first book. And, I have a long history with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, which is an organization by and for native youth that works in the United States and Canada around issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. I taught creative writing at the Edmonton Remand Centre, which is the country’s largest prison I taught too in an adult literacy program. My debut book of poetry, This Wound is a World, came out in 2017, and there’s more on the horizon. Would you be able to give the folks who might not know you a bit of an overview of the work that you do? Billy-Ray Belcourt’s first book, “This Wound is a World”.īilly-Ray Belcourt: I am a PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta I study art, film, and poetry, by First Nations cultural producers in Canada. Vincent Mousseau: Thanks for agreeing to speak with me today. His debut book of poems, This Wound is a World, was published last fall and was named the best Canadian poetry book of 2017 by CBC Books. He is a 2016 Rhodes Scholar – the first-ever First Nations person to be awarded the designation in Canada. He is a PhD student in the Department of English & Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation.
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