The writer, editor and bookseller Nick Thran discusses his new collection of poetry Existing Music (Nightwood Editions, 2025), with Joseph Planta.
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Existing Music by Nick Thran (Nightwood Editions, 2025).
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Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.
Nick Thran joins me now. The poet has just published a new collection of poetry, his fourth, Existing Music. I’ll ask him about poems in the book that look at memory, music, and how music affects the memories that we hold, good or bad; painful or happy. He’s a talented writer who evokes melancholy and longing, just as well as he deploys a love of language and whimsy as he uses words as he intends, painting images or summoning in the reader certain sounds as one reads. He takes us to the world of a bookstore, something he knows well as he makes his living as a bookseller, as well as a writer and editor. Nick Thran’s previous books include the mixed-genre collection If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display, and three previous poetry collections. Earworm won the 2012 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. This new book is published by Nightwood Editions. Nick will be part of an event this Thursday, 08 May 2025 at Iron Dog Books. It’s a double launch of this book, as well as Tom Wayman’s Out of the Ordinary. The event is free, and doors open at 6.30pm. You can register at www.irondogbooks.com [2]. We taped this interview two and a half weeks ago, with Nick joining me from Fredericton, New Brunswick. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Nick Thran; Mr. Thran, good morning.
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