Home > Interviews > Memory Among Stones: An Interview with Peter Midgley Interview by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Peter Midgley’s latest collection, let us not think of them as barbarians (NeWest Press, 2019), is a “sensual and intimate” exploration and reconfiguration of Namibia’s history, philosophy, and relationship to the present. It was a finalist for the 2020 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and won third place in the Poetry Category at the 2019 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. Uchechukwu Umezurike: Congratulations again, Peter, on the publication of Peter Midgley: Thank you, Uche. This little book has been good to me, as have my publishers, NeWest Press. It had a difficult birth, and I am thrilled to see how well it has been received.