SOURCE: An interview in Waves, Vol. 14, No. 4, Spring, 1986, pp. 36-44.

In the following interview, Mouré discusses the Canadian content of her works, the images she employs, her love for language, and the influence of contemporary literary theory on her work.

[Billings]: Let's start way back. You're from the west, from Calgary, lived in Vancouver for several years, and now you're in Montreal. You're not a prairie poet in the mode of, say Leona Gom, Glen Sorestad, Andrew Suknaski, or Lorna Crozier. Why not?

[Mouré]: I don't know (laughs). I think that the prairie as a place is very present in my mind, but I don't live there. So those aren't images I see all the time. Therefore they affect me in a different way.

But you did live there for several years and in Empire, York Street there are elements of what is commonly known as "prairie poetry...