Bookworm, no. 86
Adrian Ma reviews “What I Mean to Say,” by Ian Williams. Caroline Noël on Georgia Toews’s “Nobody Asked for This.” David Venn on Matthew Scace’s “Jasper on Fire.” Inside the April issue.
Speak Easy
What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time
Ian Williams
House of Anansi Press
248 pages, softcover and ebook
With What I Mean to Say, the companion text to the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, Ian Williams sets an ambitious goal: to spark a conversation about conversation. Through cultural and personal reflections, the award-winning poet, nove…
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