In Merpaw’s poems I feel the poet’s mind working, leaping, associating, speculating, remembering, yet all somehow adding up to a coherent whole…What an exhilarating reading experience. Put the Ghosts Down Between Us is my favourite among the chapbooks that I have read this year.
—Cary Fagan, on Put the Ghosts Down Between Us
Press
Reviews
- Manahil Bandukwala, Arc Poetry Magazine, “In and Out of Body: Amanda Merpaw’s Most of All the Wanting.”
- Hollay Ghadery enthusiastically recommends Most of All the Wanting
- Cary Fagan, Word Music: “If only I could think of a deer” — review of Put the Ghosts Down Between Us.
Interviews
- Howl 89.5 FM, Interview with Hollay Ghadery (October 1st, 2024 episode)
- Open Book, “Amanda Merpaw Explores Change, Upheaval, and the Power of Queerness in Most of All the Wanting”
- Page Fright: A Literary Podcast, “Queer Longing” —In conversation with Andrew French
- rob mclennan, 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Amanda Merpaw
- The /tEmz/ Review, Aaron Schneider interviews Amanda Merpaw
Recordings
- All Lit Up Cozy Fest 2024: “Summer Solstice”
- Eh Poetry Podcast: “On the Spring Equinox”
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