Intersections: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts

David E. Kemp, a former professor of drama at Queen’s University, is
the author of The Pleasures and Treasures of the United Kingdom.

Since 1984, writers from around the world have spent time in the
Leighton Studios, the artist studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
This collection of fiction and poetry by 34 of those writers gathers the
threads of this unique creative endeavor. In his excellent introduction,
Robert Kroetsch provides a brief history of the project and describes
his own experiences as one of its participating writers, addressing such
themes as the need to enter into a dialogue with the place in which one
is writing. The selections themselves range from the wryly humorous, to
the deeply insightful, to the quintessentially Canadian, and,
stylistically, from gentle lyricism to savage realism. There are stories
that have their genesis in personal experience and tales that are cosmic
in their breadth; among the smaller collection of poetry, the selections
could hardly be more diverse.