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Sadiqa de Meijer writes between two languages. She has a keen emotional awareness of both Dutch (her mother tongue) and English (the language of her adoptive country). In this conversation with Qanita Lilla, Sadiqa talks about writing “between” these two languages and of having to balance their stylistic tendencies. Interspersed with readings from Sadiqa, we learn about her life enriched by the pain and joy of cultural pluralism.
…sometimes in my work I refer to it as the ‘mother country’, the Netherlands, which is because my mother is from there. But when you leave, the idea is that there’s something flat, something missing a little bit, as far as people’s ability to be expressive…
Sadiqa de Meijer‘s books include Leaving Howe Island (Governor General’s Award Finalist 2014), The Outer Wards (Raymond Souster Award finalist 2020), and alfabet/alphabet (Governor General’s Award Winner 2021). Her work, which often explores landscape, art, inner lives, and the long wakes of colonialism and migration, has received the CBC Poetry Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Award, the Jean Royce Fellowship, and other honours. It has been published internationally in Poetry Magazine, the Walrus, Brick Magazine, Poetry London, and anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry, the Best Canadian Essays, and the Dutch Turing Prize series. Her essay collection In The Field is forthcoming in 2025. She is the current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston.
Moving into season three of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast, we asked our guests to share 1-3 songs that they are listening to and/or that have inspired them. Listen on Spotify.
With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is produced by Agnes Etherington Art Centre in partnership with Queen’s University’s campus radio station, CFRC 101.9 FM.
Hosted by Qanita Lilla
Produced by Danuta Sierhuis
Episodes are edited and mixed by Chancelor Maracle, CFRC 101.9 FM
Original music by Jameel3DN, produced by Elroy “EC3” Cox III and commissioned by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2021
The graphic for the podcast is created by Vincent Perez
Recorded at Agnes Etherington Art Centre and distributed by CFRC 101.9 FM, Queen’s University
Season three of With Opened Mouths: The Podcast is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts; the Ontario Arts Council; the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, Queen’s University; and the Justin and Elisabeth Lang Fund.
