![]() Writers always have thought-fragments of thoughts, or insights, or bon mots, that are not used. It was this uncontainability that I started to think about.” I was really interested in what is withheld and who holds that. “It did start from the idea that writing is a negotiation between what is written and what is withheld. The Blue Clerk is about what is written and what is not. “The Blue Clerk began perhaps in 2009 and Theory began five or six years ago,” she said in a phone interview. Both have been percolating, maybe steeping is the better metaphor, with Brand for awhile. ![]() The books aren’t lightning bolts however. Her novels and her collections of poetry are always thoughtful and complex.īut she seems to have outdone herself this year with two new books one called The Blue Clerk which has been nominated for a Governor General’s award for poetry and the other is a novel called Theory. ![]() ![]() Dionne Brand has always been an ambitious writer. ![]()
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