New Interviews with the Author
The Authority File podcast:
- Part 1: Soundin’ Canaan Explores How Aesthetic and Rhetoric Intertwine in Black Canadian Poetry (Oct 8, 2025)
- Part 2: How Decentering and the “DJ Methodology” Enhanced the Writing Process of Soundin’ Canaan” (Oct 15, 2025)
- Part 3: Examining Sonic Citizenship, Remixing, and Multiculturalism in Soundin’ Canaan (Oct 22, 2025)
- Part 4: How Soundin’ Canaan Remixed Its Design, Launch, and Website (Oct 29, 2025)
Q&A with The Victoria Festival of Authors (September 2025)
“SOUNDING OUT AND TUNING IN: Black Canadian Poetics, DJ Methodology, and Citizenship Today.” Paul db Watkins and Wayde Compton in Conversation (March 2025)
Conversations Podcast. A Conversation with Paul db Watkins. (March 2025)
CHLY 101.7: Midcoast Morning, with Joe Pugh “VIU prof highlights Black Canadian poets in new book” (February 2025)
VIU: “Paul Watkins’ new book Soundin’ Canaan explores Black Canadian voices” (January 2025)
Primary Interviews from the Book
Cecil Foster “Writing Jazz: Gesturing Towards the Possible. Cecil Foster in conversation with Paul Watkins” [PDF]
Interview with d’bi.young by Paul Watkins [PDF]
George Elliott Clarke, “Your Bass Sounds like a Typewriter”: A Reading and Interview” [PDF]
Clarke, “George Elliott Clarke “Harmonious Dissonance: Paul Watkins in Conversation with George Elliott Clarke”
M. NourbeSe Philip Interview with Paul Watkins [PDF]
Wayde Compton “‘Schizophonophilia’: An Audio-Interplay Between Wayde Compton and Paul Watkins” [PDF]
More Interviews with Featured Poets
George Elliott Clarke
“George Elliott Clarke Says Poetry, ‘the Soul of the Arts,’ Can’t Die,” CBC Radio (January 2016)
George Elliott Clarke on Africadia (November 2021)
Dionne Brand
“Two Interviews With Dionne Brand About Salvage” (February 2025)
“An Interview with Dionne Brand: A Life that Exceeds the Wreck” (October 2024)
“Between the Covers: Dionne Brand Interview“
“Dionne Brand on that which goes unwritten: ‘What is withheld multiplies‘” (June 2019)
M. NourbeSe Philip
“In Conversation with History: An Interview with M. NourbeSe Philip” (2022)
“Poetry as Untelling: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip” (June 28 2021)
“On Fracturing and Healing the Conventions of Language” (October 2016)
“M. NourbeSe Philip on Genre, Performance, and Putting the Ego Out“ (October 2016)
K’naan
“The Hour: K’naan” CBC (May 2010)
Wayde Compton
“Full License to Play with Language: Chelene Knight and Wayde Compton in Conversation” (June 2023)
An interview with Wayde Compton, Ellen & Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence, 2007-2008 (September 2020)
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