History is like the ocean, with its unexamined depths. There is capital-H history, and there is the intimate scale of one’s own journey through time; in both cases there are mysteries, rivers leading ...

The nation, the country, where do we belong in it? In this film through conversation and poetry two poets meet for the telling and the listening. Adrienne Rich is a distinguished American feminist ...

A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more. For decades, the ...

Poet and novelist Dionne Brand isn’t keen to sit in a sidewalk café and watch the world go by. She’d much prefer to be out walking around the west end, especially along Bloor St., observing people and ...

About five years ago, award-winning poet, novelist, and editor Dionne Brand was having a casual conversation with her editor Lynn Henry. Brand was talking about the kind of writing that she loved and ...

The scene is the act of reading; the book, another kind of forensics—a forensics of the literary substance of which the author is made and from which she must recover. Or, if not recover, then piece ...

A conversation between longtime collaborators artist Torkwase Dyson and poet Canisia Lubrin and 2023 Collaborators-in-Residence Dionne Brand and Christina Sharpe. Reflecting on their ongoing projects, ...

I have spent my days thinking about calculus and narrative and reckoning. I have spent them tuned to the stilled and heightened frequencies of everyday life. I’ve spent my days shadowboxing the radio ...

Dionne Brand has been named the winner of the 2019 Toronto Book Awards for her novel “Theory.” The award comes with a prize of $10,000. The announcement was made by Councillor Paul Ainslie in a ...

Toronto poet laureate Dionne Brand is the Canadian winner of the $75,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, announced Wednesday evening during a gala dinner in Toronto’s Distillery District. Brand, previously ...