Canadian Poets Series #16 : Darby Minott Bradford
Darby Minott Bradford is a poet, editor, and translator. They hold a BA in Literature from Concordia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and edit Poetry Pause, the League of Canadian Poets poem-a-day newsletter. They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books, 2021) [ see my review of such here ], an interdisciplinary memoir that explores the versioning aspects of Bradford and their family’s histories with abuse and trauma. The collection won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize , Governor General Literary Award and Gerard Lampert Memorial Award, and was longlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Their most recent hybrid collection, Bottom Rail on Top (Brick Books, 2023) [ see my review of such here ], works to complicate prevailing conceptions of Blackness by staging one personal present alongside American histories of antebellum Black life. In a treasure hunt of sorts, the colle...
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