Interviews

See Tanya’s interviews below:

‘Carrying War’ – collection of essays by Eastern Townships author reflects on childhood and coping with trauma

Listen on CBC.ca

Townships poet prepares to launch third book in North Hatley

Listen on CBC.ca

Writer’s Unbound

Watch at MAtv.ca

The Writer’s Life

Tanya is interviewed by Heige S. Boehm from The Writer’s Life on Buzzsprout or your favorite podcast platform.

Louise Abbott

Baste the Raw Edges, Fasten the Yoke from Louise Abbott on Vimeo.

“The writing is almost lyrical. It is a beautiful thing”
—Toby A. Welch /SaskBooks

“Her writing is on point, allowing us to travel with her. And it’s engrossing: we keep turning the pages, wanting to know more.”
—Yara El-Soueidi, Montreal Review of Books

“It’s quite a feat to couple the chaos of the Middle East with the chaos of adolescence.”
—Bronwyn Drainie, Literary Review of Canada

“In Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt’s hands, words become anything but ordinary—from the scent of lindens along a lakeshore, the imprint of wings on snow, to her father’s last winter on earth, the serious business of living. Poems both fearless and humble. Tenderly, forcefully, they influence our lives.”
—Susan Musgrave, author of Hunger

“Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt returns in memory to her early adolescence with her peacekeeper father in
war-torn 1980s Beirut, and with honesty and courage traces the legacy of terror in her life and the lives of loved ones and strangers. Each of these thirty-two essays illuminates the psychic consequences of trauma from a different angle, adding up to a multi-faceted portrait of a woman whose personal history won’t let her ignore the costs of societal violence. Thoughtful, compassionate, and
relevant, Carrying War is an eloquent plea for peace, and a testament to human resilience and the
healing power of art.”
—Susan Olding, author of Big Reader

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