The poet Ellie Sawatzky discusses her debut collection None of This Belongs to Me (Nightwood Editions, 2021), with Joseph Planta.

None of This Belongs to Me by Ellie Sawatzky (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: None of This Belongs to Me

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

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

Another poetry collection to examine this National Poetry Month is the debut collection of Ellie Sawatzky: None of This Belongs to Me. She joins me now to talk about the poems therein. Some deal with love, with loss, with regret, and the personal. I’ll ask her about her upbringing, and how her memory was mined for some of the poems in this collection. Written by a millennial, the book is a terrific capsule of memories not just of the author, but the times we live in; replete with technological and cultural references of Ellie’s lifetime. We’ll talk about writing too, and place. There are a number of poems that look at places she’s been, she’s lived in that she evokes clearly and vividly for the reader. Ellie Sawatzky is a writer from Kenora, Ontario. She was a finalist for the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and the recipient of CV2’s 2017 Young Buck Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, and joined me from here in Vancouver. This collection is published by Nightwood Editions. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Ellie Sawatzky; Ms. Sawatzky, good morning.

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