Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
Please share your thoughts about the future of Literature, and when did you start writing?
As for the future of Literature I really don’t give it much thought, I prefer to stay focussed more on what is happening now, that which provides me challenges and new ideas on a daily basis. Only the Muses know what is to come.
I started writing in a very raw and uneducated way when I was 15. Mainly it began as notes to my father, who was a difficult man trapped in the notion a son should enjoy working all the time. Slowly, to deal with his disease, I moved toward writing song lyrics for my friends who all wanted to be rockstars, but none could put words together. That was kind of a breakthrough until I reached my early twenties, it was then I chose Poetry, was fortunate enough to begin publishing in literary magazines here in Canada, and win a Honorable Mention in a contest.
The Good and the Bad, who is winning in nowadays?
Now, that I am 66, I look at the world not in regard to “good” or “bad”, more importantly I see it in a way that can be described and tolerated as “devolved” and “evolved”. I stay hopeful my species, fellow humankind, will go on, choose further exploration of ourselves and our planet’s survival, also intelliegnce, protecting the importance of it for all as well.
How many books have you written, and where can we find your books?
I have 22 titles to my name. They can be found with me (some of them anyway), or with publishers I have dealt with, such as AOS Publishing (Montreal), Guernica Editions (Toronto), Mwanaka Media and Publishing (Zimbabwe), Ensemble Editions (Rome), and CyberNet (India).
The book. Ebook or hardcover, what will be the future?
As for what will be the future for the book, of course I don’t know, but I do hope all the versions we have today will be available. Perhaps some new version will appear too.
A wish for 2025?
My wish for 2025 is, may the birds around the world continue to share their seasonal songs with us.
A phrase from your book?
Here is a phrase from my new book, Parental Forest (AOS Publishing), taken out of the poem, After Leaving A Lousy Job:
“…quite like the opened dandelions and the warm mothering sun.”
