This Week’s One Minute Poem! Ian Williams reads “Spontaneous Overflow”
In this week’s One Minute Poem, Ian Williams reads “Spontaneous Overflow” from Word Problems (Coach House Books, 2020).
You can find Ian’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.
By kind permission of the poet and Coach House Books.
Ian Williams is the author of five books. His novel, Reproduction, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His last poetry collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. Not Anyone’s Anything won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. You Know Who You Are was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Award. He’s online at www.ianwilliams.ca and @ianwillwrite.
Nicola Vulpe considers poetry an unfortunate habit and doesn’t get out much with the literati. His poems have nonetheless appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, The Manhattan Review, Mediterranean Poetry, Slush Pile Magazine and Stand Magazine. He has also published a novella, The Extraordinary Event of Pia H., who turned to admire a chicken on the Plaza Mayor, as well as three collections of poetry, When the Mongols Return, Blue Tile and Insult to the Brain (Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry), with a fourth, Through the Waspmouth I Drew You, forthcoming with Guernica Editions.