The writer Kerry Gilbert discusses her latest collection of poetry Little Red (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019), with Joseph Planta.

Little Red by Kerry Gilbert (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Little Red

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Kerry Gilbert is the author of Little Red. It is a collection of a new poems that begin with the Little Red Riding Hood story and its various versions, and looks at girls and wolves, harm and violence, as well as youth and experience. The images are vivid and evoke the places in the heart and mind so well, you feel at times in a remote part of this province, just as you feel for those damaged. I’ll ask Kerry about the poems in this collection, as well as committing poetry, and the places she takes the reader too in this book. Kerry Gilbert teaches creative writing at Okanagan College in Vernon, British Columbia, where she joined me from about three weeks ago. (kerplnk): a verse novel of development was her first collection of poetry, followed by Tight Wire, which was published by Mother Tongue, who publishes Little Red. She has been shortlisted for a number of prizes for her writing and poetry, and received the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer 2016/2017. The website for more is at www.kerrygilbert.ca. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Kerry Gilbert; Ms. Gilbert, good morning.

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