P105 Speaking Of Family Writers Radio podcast

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Readings in Three Voices by Medwyn McConachy "to seek a new life free of social constraints and prejudice based on class or race." Medwyn McConachy could not have imagined, when she left England in 1966, that she would become a writer and fiber artist, live in cities, the north, and on an island, become a witch, and change her first name from Janet to Medwyn. Medwyn reads three excerpts from her series of creative non-fiction, memoir-based essays written from the perspectives of friends, family members, and her younger self, Janet. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P106 Radiant Storyteller 24:44

πριν 5 weeks24:44

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Ethel Whitty says, "I write about extraordinary, ordinary women searching for their own truths." Ethel Whitty was born and raised on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. Those were years when the depth and warmth of the culture had to be balanced against the island's isolation and the struggles of working-class people. The experiences and community of her childhood significantly influenced her fictional characters and narratives in "The Light a Body Radiates." Since moving to Vancouver, Ethel has served as the Director of the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver's downtown eastside for twelve years, where she drew inspiration from the resilience and spirit of resistance she discovered in that community. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P105 Speaking Of Family 27:41

πριν 8 weeks27:41

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Barbara Baydala from Ladner, BC, writes A Family of Poems I’ve recently been contemplating a collection of writings about my father and have realized through assembling these poems for Writers Radio that I can’t write about my father without placing the two of us amidst our family in all its many guises. Vancouver poet Colette Gagnon revisits her memoir-based poetry, further exploring the use of form. This suite of five poems centres around the grief and loss of her brother Phil and includes an excerpt from a childhood narrative entitled Lure. Thematically, these are haunted voices-- of dream, reverie, elegy, foretelling. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P104 Good Bedtime Stories 34:57

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Twice a year, we have a themed call for submissions from our pool of writers. I didn’t know what to expect when I asked for Good Bedtime Stories. Serendipity was at work. Jeremy Page and Alison Goeller met in an online class on mystery writing and were eventually paired off to critique each other's work. They've kept in touch and occasionally send each other their work. Ingrid Rose and Peter Buckman are cousins. These authors read for us in this episode: Jeremy Page: The Ghost of Haversham Halt Alison Goeller: Murder in Provence Ingrid Rose: Power of Attraction Peter Buckman: The Spectre of the Stones Author, editor, and translator Jeremy Page lives in Lewes, England. He writes both prose and poetry. Jeremy is a former Director of Language Studies at the University of Sussex and the founder of the literary journal The Frogmore Papers. Alison Goeller is a former professor of American literature, now living in Uzès, a medieval town in France. Her murder mystery series features locksmith Will Sargent and his wife, Poppy, characters inspired by Alison’s locksmith uncle, Gil Deming, and his wife, Phyllis. Memoirist, lyric prose writer, creative writing teacher, and editor Ingrid Rose lives in Vancouver. She is a co-producer of Writers Radio. English author Peter Buckman has written books, plays, and scripts for film, television, and radio. His long career in publishing includes founding Ampersand Agency, a UK-based literary agency representing commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction authors. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P102 Narative Position 36:33

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The loneliness of narrative, the loneliness of seeking truth, is our human condition. It is our task as writers. Betsy Warland Betsy’s popular inquiry into the act of writing, Breathing the Page, Reading the Act of Writing is in its second edition with an additional ten essays. Betsy reads one of these essays: Narrative Position, for this program. In our conversation, Betsy elaborates on her personal quest to understand and articulate her unique narrative position, "person of between" in their own life and work. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P101 Little Sister Grimm 27:33

πριν 19 weeks27:33

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Re-imagining a classic fairy tale with puppeteer, puppet builder, performer, director and filmmaker Kris Fleerackers. Bored and tired of doing chores, little Lotte Grimm sneaks a peek at a ‘broken’ fairy tale her older brothers have collected. To fix it, she finds a way to enter the story and save its heroine, but not everything goes as planned… Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P100 Radical Acts of Love - how we find hope at the end of life 32:07

πριν 21 weeks32:07

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Radical Acts of Love How We Find Hope at the End of Life Janie Brown has been an oncology nurse, first in Glasgow, then Vancouver for four decades. She is the founder of the Callanish Society which, through programs and retreats, creates a healing space for people who have been irrevocably changed by cancer. “With Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown demonstrates the power of a book to transform, in fact to turn things upside down. She turns death into life, despair into hope, sorrow into joy, and pain into love with these twenty astonishing encounters with the dying. We all know somewhere in the back of our minds that a deeper understanding and acceptance of death is supposed to release us into an even fiercer embrace of life—this wonderful book made me, for the first time, truly feel and believe it. Unforgettably wise, kind and wonderful.” Stephen Fry Order Radical Acts of Love from your library or favourite bookseller. It is also available as an e-book from Kindle and Apple Books, and an audio book. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P093 Bridestones 24:19

πριν 24 weeks24:19

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meditations on art, myth, archaeology, ceremony, and death Come, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore, / its language of high tide rich and close, / close and hard to see. In her conversation with Ingrid Rose, Miranda discusses how lifelong themes and experiences are interwoven in this book, like the white lines which connect the stones on the cover of her book. Like love renewed while visiting the Bridestones, (sandstone rock formations in Yorkshire). Or world seen from bird's-eye perspective in a poem from her book, The Aviary. Miranda Pearson has homes in Vancouver and Kent, England, where she grew up. She came to Canada as a psychiatric nurse and still works in the health care field in Vancouver. She has an MFA from University of British Columbia; she is an editor and creative writing instructor. Bridestones, (2024) is her sixth book of poetry, published as part of the juried Hugh McLennan Poetry Series by McGill-Queen's University Press. Of her previous titles both The Fire Extinguisher and Harbour were nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and The Aviary, (2006) won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize from the Writers Federation of Newfoundland. Order Bloodstones from the publisher, your local bookstore, library, or favourite online retailer. It is available as an e-book from Amazon and Kobo, but sadly not from Apple Books. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P091 Writers Gambit, part 02 46:04

πριν 29 weeks46:04

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Gambit, a word from chess, struck our producer, Ingrid Rose, as appropriate to the daring and wide-ranging work created recently by authors from our growing Writers Radio community. Each program in this two part series is scheduled for three weeks instead of two while our producers take a summer break: Ingrid is off to France and Carole is getting a new hip. PART 2 Elizabeth Cunningham, Look to This Day, Poems for Doris McCarthy “ Look to This Day: Poems for Doris McCarthy is a rich ekphrastic dialogue between poet Elizabeth Cunningham and painter Doris McCarthy, [1910-2010]. Poet Jenna Butler wrote about this book, " McCarthy’s paintings, and her cottage on Georgian Bay, became a refuge to Cunningham during the weary years of the pandemic; they also became profound connection points between two deeply creative women, important links between shared views of the more-than-human world and its exquisite beauty. Look to This Day is the most engaged sort of homage: it is an intimate and intelligent exploration of the very ways of seeing and holding space in the world that underpin McCarthy’s work.” Kevin Spenst, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space, Anvil Press, 2024. Kevin writes of this book: I live in a bachelor suite in a building named the Stanley Park Manor in Vancouver’s West End...A Bouquet Brought Back from Space contains a crown of sonnets dedicated to my friend Jeff Steudel, who also lived in this building decades ago, written immediately after I’d learned of Jeff’s passing. My book takes inspiration from Rilke in several ways, one of which is through Jeff’s fascination with Rilke and how he wove his words and ideas through his own poetry. Rilke became more and more important to some of the book’s overall themes of angels, isolation and love. Susan Dambroff, A Chair Keeps the Floor Down, Finishing Line Press, 2021 These poems are dedicated to the children Susan had the privilege of teaching, and who taught her. Written after retiring from a rich career as a special education teacher in San Francisco, as a way to honor each heartbreak and celebration she encountered, and to move into the next more spacious journey of her life. As a teacher she would corral the children into loops of captivating play just as the poems do as they witness taking the journey out of the classroom into the lives of their families and communities. Alison Goeller, Frozen in Love (A Will Sargent Mystery) Alison Goeller, who lives in Provence, writes short stories and mystery novels. Frozen in Love is the second of a four part series featuring Will Sargent. "The idea to write a series of murder mysteries set in the fictional village of Wilburne, Vermont, and featuring a local locksmith (Will Sargent) and his bookish wife (Poppy) was inspired by my uncle Bill Deming--a real locksmith-- and his wife Phyllis, both long-time residents of the village of Shelburne, Vermont. In Frozen in Love a restaurant manager is found dead inside a meat freezer. When Poppy discovers an unusual smell emanating from her husband’s brand-new winter gloves, a dangerous journey to solve the murder ensues." ORDER these fine books: Elizabeth Cunningham, Look to This Day, Poems for Doris McCarthy was published by Elizabeth's business, Waterside Arts, in time for the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Doris McCarthy Museum at University of Toronto in May 2024. ORDERS: Waterside Arts: 5-1106, 7th St, Nelson, BC, V1L 0A1, Canada Kevin Spenst, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space, may be ordered from the publisher, An Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P090 Writers Gambit part 01 34:47

πριν 32 weeks34:47

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Gambit, a word from chess, struck our producer, Ingrid Rose, as appropriate to the daring and wide-ranging work created recently by authors from our growing Writers Radio community. This will be a two part series; each program will run for three weeks instead of two while our producers take a summer break: Ingrid is off to France and Carole is getting a new hip. PART 1 Cathy Stonehouse: Dream House, A Poem, Nightwood Editions, 2024, short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award (2024) Cathy writes about this reading: "Dream House emerged after the experience of visiting my mother in a nursing home in the UK, where I grew up, and emptying her small house, in a matter of days...the book begins with an evocation of the journey to the nursing home, and, by association, from life to death. A poem about my mother and one about my grandmother then follow. This long poem is therefore an attempt to both celebrate and question my inheritance from them as daughter, grand-daughter, poet and ultimately mother to my own daughter." Tariq Malik: Blood of Stone, poetry, Caitlin Press, 2024 Tariq has written: "In Blood of Stone Tariq Malik revisits Kotli, the 1,000-year-old city of his formative years in the province of Punjab, Pakistan following partition. Marked by the traumas of dislocation and migration, the city and its inhabitants share secrets and longings, chronicled and imagined by Malik as he gives voice to a personal history that precedes his experiences as an immigrant in Canada." Chad Norman: Parental Forest, poetry, Ace of Swords Publishing. 2024 "In Chad Norman's poetry, the world is created and re-created with great attention to details and beings involved...where everything is connected and interchangeable - a person, a plant, a bird, a tree. Each poem sounds like a secret recipe for medicine, the healing effect of which the author knows and generously shares with us" Halyna Kruk, fellow poet & professor of European and Ukrainian baroque literature, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Cornelia Hoogland writes: "I'm pulling together a new collection of poetry with the working title Snowing Inside. Does Snowing Inside evoke an image for you? Some of the many poems go back 20 years and I'm choosing the ones that want, need, to talk to each other. I'm creating a conversation. Plus, my life has changed. How is something the book will take up. The thing I've noticed about the newest poems, which is that, the closer I am to the terminus of my life, I'm 70, the more vivid are the long connections to my beginnings: a trajectory with a philosophical bent. Here's a line that might underscore the book. We were taught there's a heaven above, but not how on earth to live in between." All the books in this Writers Gambit series are available from online retailers and may be ordered from your favourite bookstore. Happy summer reading! Produced by Ingrid Rose, Carole Harmon and Gary Sill, Writers Radio programs reach deeply into the collective mind of our times. We broadcast from Halfmoon Bay, on traditional tribal land of the self-governing shIshalh Nation, on the west coast of Canada. We express our profound regret for past and present injustices done to all indigenous peoples through colonization, and our gratitude to them for their wisdom teachings and land stewardship which are much needed guidance today and into the future. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P089 Consider - Susan McCaslin 30:00

πριν 34 weeks30:00

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Consider the World Tree her mantling green our swaddling gown dismantled an iron word falling felling, disrupting old growth's primal ground... Susan McCaslin Canadian poet and literary scholar Susan McCaslin lives in Langley, British Columbia. She is the author of seventeen books of poetry and ten chapbooks. In Consider, (Aolus House, 2023), Susan explores her evolving experience of the figure of Jesus in relation to the wisdom teachers and activists of diverse spiritual traditions. By turns mystical and playful, provocative and insightful, many of the poems have ekphrastic inspirations. In my conversation with Susan we focus on the connection between mystical experience and activism which I sense as themes of the book. We also discuss Susan's role as editor of Walking Into God by E.D. Blodgett which was released in spring 2024 by Farleigh Dickinson University Press. Susan also reads from Walking Into God. Carole Harmon, Writers Radio producer edited by Susan McCaslin Celebrated Canadian poet, E.D. Blodgett's final book of poetry Author of over thirty books of poetry, and winner of many awards, Ted Blodgett's Walking Into God was written during his struggle with terminal cancer. It was published posthumously, produced as a labour of love by his friends, fellow artists, and contributors Susan McCaslin, Sheila Martineau, and Yukiko Onley. "What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that's the only heaven we are given to know in life". Edward Dickinson (Ted) Blodgett Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P088 The Child I Was, The Adult I Became 53:41

πριν 36 weeks53:41

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Listen to this lively event recorded May 4 at our studio in Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine Coast in Canada. Canadian authors Caitlin Hicks and Liz Long joined moderator Gord Halloran, pianist Gary Sill, and a live audience to discuss, The child I was...the adult I became This program was Writers Radio's first live event and it went very well. We wanted to create a conversation which reached beyond a lone listener to engage a live audience. We began with brunch at Carole and Gary's home (sorry you will miss this part), then adjourned to Gary Sill's studio for readings and discussion. This program is close to an hour long so take it in courses if you like but do listen to the end for the insightful discussion with our lively audience. The Child I was—the adult I became •Gary Sill, improvisational pianist (standing with arms crossed) •Canadian artist Gord Hallor an is our moderator •Liz Long, author •Caitlin Hicks, author •Carole Harmon introduces Writers Radio •Ingrid Rose with her hand up in the audience Liz Long's book, Navigating Shitstorms: How to Find Your True Path When Life Gets Rough is part memoir and part self-help guide. Traumatized by the disappearance of her aunt when Liz was six, Liz has learned how to follow her heart voice from Victimtown to Freedomville. Caitlin Hicks has published two engaging novels based on her own childhood growing up in a large Catholic family in Pasadena, Ca. Annie Shea is her creative and delightful main character in both A Theory of Expanded Love and Kennedy Girl. Annie will do anything to shine. All three books are on Amazon but do ask for them from your favourite book seller. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P087 Atma Frans - A Belgian Childhood: Poems 24:51

πριν 38 weeks24:51

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Atma Frans lives in Gibsons, on ancestral Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory that is part of Canada’s Sunshine Coast. She grew up in Flanders, a region of Belgium which was continuously invaded and occupied since Julius Caesar first conquered it in 52 BCE, and which only recently gained cultural and political autonomy. Atma’s childhood was marked by intergenerational trauma: her parents were children in the Second World War, her grandparents in the First. Yet her work also pays tribute to another side of her Flemish heritage — the spirited perseverance Belgians are known for in spite of their troubled history, as well as their firm determination to enjoy the good things in life. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P086 Instead 32:00

πριν 40 weeks32:00

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The adventures that we wanted to have, the adventures that we did have kayaking for months on end in very remote parts of the world where there were tropical diseases, hippos, crocodiles, big seas, big sea crossings, or cycling, the whole length of Vietnam just after it opened up, I mean, some of these were really, really challenging adventures. I know there's no way that I could have brought a child along… Maria Coffey in conversation with Carole Harmon Author Maria Coffey grew up in a conservative Irish Catholic family with a mother who wished nothing more than to be a grandmother. Instead, Maria was introduced to the world of high risk adventure by her older brother who climbed mountains. She fell in love with a famous climber, Joe Tasker, who died on Everest. This was a turning point of her life. She began to write, moved from England to Canada, met and married veterinarian and photographer Dag Goering who loves adventure as much as she does. Maria and Dag have travelled the world in kayaks, by bike and on foot. They run an award winning adventure travel company called Hidden Places. Maria and Dag still explore the world together, scout and create new trips, and fund conservation work. Maria and Bac Meeting Vinh and Bac The question of motherhood never altogether left Maria. In 1994 in Vietnam Dag and Maria met street children Vinh and Bac who they tried to help. Fortune didn't smile on their attempt to relocate the children in an SOS Children's Village. Maria with Agnes and her son Adrian Meeting Agnes In 2011 Maria and Dag were on safari in Kenya where they met Agnes, a young Samburu woman facing difficult circumstances. With their help she realized her dreams of going to university. They remain very close to her and her two children. Instead was published by Rocky Mountain Books in 2023. All thirteen of Maria's books are available online and make fascinating reading. She explores the hidden facets of extreme sport, topics rarely discussed and almost never spoken of in public. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.…

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P085 Other Voices 27:33

πριν 42 weeks27:33