Sandy Pool compares her first poetry book Exploding into Night to a "choose your own adventure": this fictionalized account of a murder in one of Toronto's neighbourhoods can be read in fragments or from beginning to end to produce different narratives.

Cara Waterfall speaks to Pool about writing, poetry and her first book.

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Peripatetic by nature and a poet by design, Cara worked for a bank and charity before focusing on writing. Now based in Toronto, she has lived in Malaysia, Kenya and Austria. She has been published in The Fiddlehead, paperplates.org and bonjourparis.com. This worldly Ottawa native values her sandalwood Buddha and her unwieldy postcard and Canadian literature collections. Find her at belledejournal.com.