Interviewed by Darryl Salach (The Toronto Quarterly)
The Toronto Poets – 5 Questions Series is a new series initiated by The Toronto Quarterly that is geared to providing the talented poets living and writing in the city of Toronto with a bit of a broader platform in which to explain who they are as poets and what they're writing about these days. The hope is to provide this information to not only lovers of poetry residing in the city but to the casual reader of poetry who might not be aware of some of the names being featured in the five questions series. Ultimately, the hope of this series is to inform Torontonians that poetry is indeed vibrant, alive and kicking ass in our city.
Starting in 1968, George Swede's poems began to appear in many leading Canadian journals: Antigonish Review, Arc, Canadian Forum, Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly, Event, Grain, New Quarterly, Open Letter, Poetry Canada Review, Poetry Toronto, Quarry, Rampike, Scrivener, Tamarack Review, Toronto Life, University of Toronto Review, Waves and White Wall Review, as well as other fine publications such as Cicada, Frogpond, Industrial Sabotage, Modern Haiku, RAW NerVZ, Salt, Stuffed Crocodile and What.
