Eileen Chong interviews joanne burns
‘As I’ve aged, I have developed a fairly relaxed attitude to writing poetry—it’s a form of play involving a mix of words, ideas, images, sounds, textures, shapes and rhythms—a pleasure that nothing else provides. The poem generates from nowhere, everywhere, or anywhere.’
joanne burns is a Sydney poet. Her most recent book is apparently, published by Giramondo in April 2019. She is very slowly assembling a Selected volume of her work published in book form since the early 1970s.
Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. She has had eight books published. Her most recent books are Rainforest from Pitt Street Poetry and Dark Matter from Recent Work Press.
www.eileenchong.com.au
