[Interview] Christian Ward
In 2006, Christian Ward published The Grammarian and Other Poems ( PDF ) (Lily Press, 2006). This was followed by five more poetry chapbooks, among them, Goddess & Other Poems ( PDF ) (Scars Publications, 2007), The Sea ( PDF ) (Scars Publications, 2007) and Dark Matter Lullabies (Why Vandalism?, 2008). His latest chapbook, Bone Transmissions was released from Maverick Duck Press in 2009. His work has also been featured in journals that include Sage Trail , Grasslimb , Sein Und Werden , Envoi and The Emerson Review . When did you start writing? I first started writing when I was a child and stopped for a while when I started secondary school, resuming at 24, when I was at university. Being a writer was a childhood ambition. I remember reading an illustrated version of Robinson Crusoe when I was a boy and wanting to write the same kind of wonderful stories as [Daniel] Defoe did. It wasn’t until I reached my mid-twenties that I started to make it happen. I sent ...