Tag: Di Brandt

  • Poetic justice

    Poetic justice

    For Di Brandt, being a poet is a natural extension of her upbringing in the Manitoba Mennonite village of Reinland. She says the hymns of her youth were poetic, and poetry was part of sermons and family life. Speaking by video from her home in Winnipeg, Brandt says she was “brought up in the old…