#TPQ5: TYLER PENNOCK

Last Night of the Earth Poems by Bukowski

It contains my favourite poem of all time, and so many other things that are beautiful.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

He made a genre ALL his own. He also influenced me greatly with his views on culture, language, and the ever-present nature of oppression in modern life.

Imajica by Clive Barker

Every youth needs someone a little bit like them to look up to – to see pride in yourself – especially when your identity guarantees violence against you. He was my hero at the time (14 yrs old).

Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach

Monkey Beach blew my mind. It came at a time when outsiders dominated Indigenous narratives – I also loved the subtle communications between spirit world and human world.

Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music

Just like Charles Bukowski and Clive Barker, I was in my teenage years – and this book helped form so much of what I knew about the world, and lyric, and poetry.


Tyler Pennock is a poet and writer who was adopted form a Cree and Métis family in the Lesser Slave Lake area of Alberta. They’ve authored one collection of poetry, Bones, with another on the way (blood). They currently live in Toronto.

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