A Third Animal Emerges, An Interview with Lillian Boraks-Nemetz

As part of a series on National Poetry Month, Rob Taylor of Read Local BC spoke with Lillian about Out of the Dark and her collection of works.

You can read the full interview here.

Lillian Boraks-Nemetz: When I first started writing about the Holocaust my voice came from an abyss, a place of indescribable pain inside me, and the sound would not be stilled.

I thought not only of myself but of all the other children of war, for they surely are the first most vulnerable, victimised by fear, hunger, loss, isolation and persecution. The feeling that society hates you for who you are (in my case, a Jew).