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Onde Crescem os Livros?…..
CRÓNICA DE CALGARY (VIA TERRAS DO CAIMA) Por ironia, a primeira crónica de Calgary é oriunda de Portugal onde me encontro a matar saudades. (Como se porventura as saudades pudessem ser aniquiladas para não mais nos inquietar.) Aproveitei esta viagem para visitar a minha primeira biblioteca e reacender memórias dos princípios dos anos setenta. A biblioteca Ferreira de Castro, em Ossela, terra berço de meu pai, está situada no concelho de Oliveira de Azeméis. Na minha meninice a biblioteca era paragem obrigatória na viagem de regresso a Vale de Cambra, no vale adjacente, a seis km de distância, e após a visita semanal aos avós paternos; (assim como uma breve…
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Voz do Caima
É português, escritor, radicado no Canadá. No nº 4 de VOZ DO CAIMA foi apresentado aos nossos leitores, assim como o seu conto “Rosas, Lírios e Crisântemos” Aproveitando uma curta estadia em Terras do Caima, Paulo Costa concedeu-nos a entrevista que a seguir transcrevemos. Carlos Moura (C.M.) Começando pelas raizes, o Paulo Costa nasceu em Angola e veio viver a infância em Vale de Cambra. Fixou-se, entretanto, no Canadá. Tem saudades de Vale de Cambra? Paulo Costa (P.C.) Sim, de Vale de Cambra dos anos 70, um Vale de Cambra bucólico em que o Caima serpenteava ainda verde e límpido. Lembro-me dos meus anos de criança…
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Revista Portugal – 2005
Entrevista de Sandra Santos a paulo da costa a propósito do lançamento do livro de poemas notas de rodapé.
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George Melnyk – Literary History
interview by: paulo da costa and Nelson Wight George Melnyk, considered an authority on regionalism, has published seven non-fiction books dealing with Western Canada. His most recent titles include The Urban Prairie, Beyond Alienation and Riel to Reform. He has just published the first volume of the Literary History of Alberta. In the 1970s he founded the NeWest Review and the NeWest Press in Edmonton and went on to become the executive director of the Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts. Filling Station talked to George Melnyk the week preceding the April launch of his Literary History of Alberta. paulo da costa: What inspired you to tackle a…
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Ulrikka S. Gernes – Poetry As a Language of Resistance
Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in Sweden to Danish parents and spent most of her childhood in Sweden. She has travelled extensively in Europe and Asia and now lives in Copenhagen. Her work has been highly acclaimed in Denmark since the publication of her first collection Natsvaermer (Moth) in 1984 when she was 18. She has published eight further collections. Her first book published in Canada: A Sudden Sky is a selection of her work translated by Patrick Friesen and Per Brask. paulo da costa: You were born to a family of artists. Your father was a renowned Danish painter. How did that childhood atmosphere influence your artistic sensibility?…
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Fernando Aguiar – Visual Poetry
Fernando Aguiar has published five anthologies of Visual Poetry and contributed to over thirty international anthologies worldwide. In the last twenty years he has participated in hundreds of individual and collective exhibitions, as well as poetic performances. paulo da costa interviewed him this winter in Lisbon, Portugal. paulo da costa: What inspired the use old illustrations in your recent work of Visual Poetry? Fernando Aguiar: Fifteen years ago I found a bunch of old magazines with fine quality illustrations. They had been passed down from my grandfather to my father and eventually to me. I loved the illustrations. Beautiful wood cut prints impeccably pressed. It would have taken months…
