Posted on 26 May 2009

At first I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know.’ Poet laureate — whoa. Getting heavy,” Pemberton told the newspaper. “Do I need a staff, and a big, grey beard? But then I actually starting thinking about what I do already, and most of my content is about Edmonton. Most of the music I’ve put together comes from a very specific regional source. And I feel like I can just expand that into the poetry as well. It’s basically another outlet for the writing I’m already doing, and I can focus it even more now.”

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