Page Fright: A Literary Podcast

Brandi Bird stops by the virtual studio to talk about their debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh. Andrew relates their obsession with Mary Oliver to Brandi's work. It's a great time!

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Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer and editor from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. Bird’s poems have been published in Catapult, The Puritan, Room Magazine, and others. They are a fourth year BFA student at the University of British Columbia, but their heart is always yearning for the prairies.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Tom Cull joins Andrew to reconnect and talk about his new poetry collection, Kill Your Starlings. Andrew asks about elegies and IKEA. It's a good one!

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Tom Cull was born and raised in Huron County in Treaty 29 territory. He currently resides in London, Ontario, on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples. Tom works at the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority and teaches creative writing at Western University. He was the Poet Laureate for the City of London from 2016-2018. Tom is the author of two books of poems: Kill Your Starlings (Gaspereau Press, 2023) and Bad Animals (Insomniac Press, 2018). His chapbook, What the Badger Said, was published in 2013 (Baseline Press). His work has appeared in several journals, and anthologies including This Magazine, The Rusty Toque, Long Con Magazine, The Windsor Review, The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, and Undocumented: Great Lakes Poet Laureates on Social Justice (Michigan State UP). His work has also been included in group exhibitions through Embassy Cultural House, and GardenShip and State. Cull is the director of Antler River Rally (ARR), a grass roots environmental group he co-founded in 2012 with his partner Miriam Love. ARR works to protect and restore the Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River).  

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Jen Currin and Andrew sit down to chat about Jen's new poetry collection, Trinity Street. Andrew talks the poetic and personal. It's a blast!

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Jen Currin lives on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the Halq̓eméylem-speaking peoples, including the Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, and Kwantlen Nations (New Westminster, BC, a suburb of Vancouver). They teach in the Creative Writing and English Upgrading Departments at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Jen’s most recent poetry collection is Trinity Street (House of Anansi, 2023). They have published four other collections of poetry: The Sleep of Four Cities (Anvil Press, 2005); Hagiography (Coach House, 2008); The Inquisition Yours (Coach House, 2010), which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (B.C. Book Prizes), the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, and a ReLit Award; and School (Coach House, 2014), which was a finalist for a 2015 ReLit Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. Their chapbook The Ends was published by Nomados in 2013. Jen’s first collection of stories, Hider/Seeker (Anvil Press, 2018), was awarded a Canadian Independent Book Award, was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book, and was shortlisted for a ReLit Award.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Jade Wallace joins Andrew to discuss their debut full-length poetry collection, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There. Andrews learns about psychogeography and ponders its relationship with gender. It's a great time if you like poetry, talking, or talking about poetry!

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----- Jade Wallace (they/them) is the reviews editor for CAROUSEL, co-founder of the collaborative writing entity MA|DE, and the author of the debut poetry collection Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There (Guernica Editions 2023) and the collaborative poetry collection ZZOO (Palimpsest Press, 2025). Keep in touch: jadewallace.ca

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Vivian Li sits down to talk about her debut poetry chapbook, Someday I Promise, I'll Love You. Andrews asks Vivian about love poems and the role of sound in her work. It's a joy!

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Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li (she/her) is a queer first-generation Chinese-Canadian immigrant writer, musician, director, and interdisciplinary artist suffering from depression. Her passion in life is creation and co-creation between artists, collaborators, and communities, with themes related to mental health and liminal identity. Her creative works are forthcoming or published in The New Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, The Fiddlehead, CV2, and Vallum, among others. Most recently, she was a Finalist for the Peter Hinchcliffe Award, Longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and Shortlisted for the Vancouver City Poems Contest. Her first chapbook, Someday I Promise, I’ll Love You (845 Press), was published last year, and her debut short musical dramedy film, In Silence, We Sing, premiered at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2022. Her past acting/ playwright credits include Little Women (UBC Players Club) and Guitar Strings (Festival Dionysia; Coffeehouse Theatre Society; Green College Players). She has directed for the Or Festival and the Brave New Play Rites Festival. She has also received research grants from SSHRC, MITACs, and Go Global, among others, and is currently a member of the League of Canadian Poets, Playwrights Guild of Canada, as well as The Writers' Union of Canada. A MFA candidate at the UBC School of Creative Writing, she currently edits for PRISM international and Augur, and can be reached on Twitter/ Instagram @vivianlicreates.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Charlie Petch joins the pod to talk about their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late. Andrew talks about being non-binary and how it's impacted their writing. It's a fun exploration!

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Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. A poet, playwright, librettist, musician, lighting designer, and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for the speakNORTH national festival, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets (2020), and founder of Hot Damn it's a Queer Slam. Petch is a touring performer, as well as a mentor and workshop facilitator. Their debut poetry collection, Why I Was Late (Brick Books), won the 2022 ReLit Award, and was named "Best of 2021" by The Walrus. Their film with Opera QTO, Medusa's Children, premièred 2022.  They have been featured on the CBC's Q, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, and were long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2021.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

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Yvonne Blomer lives on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEC´ (Saanich) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation. Her most recent book is The Last Show on Earth, Caitlin Press, 2022.  In the fall of 2022 Palimpsest Press released Book of Places” 10th Anniversary Edition with new poems and layout. Yvonne’s poetry books also include As if a Raven (Palimpsest Press, 2015), and the anthologies Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (Caitlin Press, 2017 and 2021). Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur is her memoir exploring body, time, and travel. Yvonne is the past Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. and Arc Magazine’s poet-in-residence for 2022-23. This spring the anthology Yvonne co-edited, Hologram: Poems for P.K. Page will be released with Caitlin Press.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Cecily Nicholson chats about her new poetry collection, Harrowings. Andrew asks Cecily about her research process and how to use a page. It's a fun time!

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Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books, and past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She has held the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University, and Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and collaborates with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Sanna Wani joins Andrew to talk about her new poetry collection, My Grief, the Sun. Andrew talks to Sanna about grief and searching in poems. It's a blast!

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Sanna Wani loves daisies and lives in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022) and the newsletter booklight. She is working on a romance novel.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

David Ly joins Andrew to talk about his new poetry collection, Dream of Me As Water. Andrew tells David he should work at an aquarium. It's a great time!

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David Ly is a writer and editor whose debut poetry collection, Mythical Man (Palimpsest Press, 2020), was shortlisted for the 2021 Relit Poetry Award. His work has appeared in PRISM International, The Puritan, carte blanche, The /temz/ Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Augur Magazine and elsewhere. David is the poetry editor at THIS Magazine, part of the Anstruther Press editorial collective, and a poetry manuscript consultant with The Writers’ Studio at SFU. Dream of Me as Water is his second poetry collection.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Andrew gives a short audio review of and reading from Shaun Robinson's If You Discover a Fire (Brick Books, 2020).

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Manahil Bandukwala joins Andrew to chat about her debut full-length poetry collection, MONUMENT. Andrew questions whether a speaker is always necessary. It's a fun one!

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Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. She works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is Digital Content Editor for Canthius. She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her debut poetry collection is MONUMENT (Brick Books). See her work at manahilbandukwala.com.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Andrew begins a series of short audio reviews of poetry collections with a quick review of and reading from Jason Purcell's Swollening.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.

Annick MacAskill stops by the virtual studio to talk about her new book, Shadow Blight. Andrew asks Annick about applying myth to the personal. It's a great chat!

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Annick MacAskill is the author of the poetry collections No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the J.M. Abraham Award, and Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020). Her third book, Shadow Blight, was published by Gaspereau Press this spring. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad, and she is currently serving as Arc Poetry Magazine's Poet-in-Residence. She lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax) on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq. annickmacaskill.com.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

rob mclennan joins Andrew for a discussion of his new book of prose poems, the book of smaller. Andrew and rob chat about reviews and community. It's a good time!

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Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press, 2022), and a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (periodicityjournal.blogspot.com) and Touch the Donkey (touchthedonkey.blogspot.com). He is editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. In spring 2020, he won ‘best pandemic beard’ from Coach House Books via Twitter, of which he is extremely proud (and mentions constantly). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Carlie Blume comes by the virtual studio to talk about her debut poetry collection, Gigglepuss. Andrew and Carlie talk trauma and poetry. It's an enriching chat!

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Carlie Blume was born on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver). She is a 2017 graduate of Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio and the author of Gigglepuss (Guernica, 2022). She currently lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C with her husband and two children.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Chris Banks drops by to chat about his new book of poetry, Deepfake Serenade. Andrew asks about avoiding stereotypical depictions of sobriety in a poem. It's a super fun one!

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Chris Banks is a Canadian poet and author of six collections of poems, most recently Deepfake Serenade out with Nightwood Editions (Fall 2021). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. Bonfires was also a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada.  His poetry has appeared in The New Quarterly, Arc Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Event, The Malahat Review, GRIFFEL, American Poetry Journal, Prism International, among other publications. He lives and writes in Kitchener, Ontario.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Natalie Lim pops into the virtual studio to chat about her debut poetry chapbook, arrhythmia. Andrew mistakes a book of non-rhyming poems for a book of rhyming ones. It's a solid time!

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Natalie Lim is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC). She is the winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room Magazine's 2020 Emerging Writer Award, with work published in ARC Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry chapbook, arrhythmia, was published by Rahila's Ghost Press in 2022. You can find Natalie on twitter at @nataliemlim.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Ellie Sawatzky stops by Andrew's virtual studio to chat about her debut full-length poetry collection, None of This Belongs to Me. Andrew learns about writing childcare poems. It's a great adventure!

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Ellie Sawatzky (@elliesawatzky) grew up in Kenora, Ontario. A past winner of CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize, runner up for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize, and a finalist for the 2019 Bronwen Wallace Award, her work has been published widely in literary magazines across North America. Her chapbook, Rhinocerotic, was published by Frog Hollow Press in 2018. None of This Belongs to Me is her debut full-length poetry collection, published by Nightwood Editions in October 2021. She is currently an editor for Friesen Press, a member of the Growing Room Collective, and curator of the Instagram account IMPROMPTU (@impromptuprompts), a hub for prompts and literary inspiration. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and a cat named Camus.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Jaclyn Desforges joins Andrew to talk about her debut poetry collection, Danger Flower. Andrew asks Jaclyn about mental health writing. It's a blast!

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Jaclyn Desforges is the author of Danger Flower (Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books), one of CBC's picks for the best Canadian poetry of 2021. She's also the author of a picture book, Why Are You So Quiet? (Annick Press, 2020), which was nominated for a Chocolate Lily Award. Jaclyn is a Pushcart-nominated writer and the winner of the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices award, two 2019 Short Works Prizes, and a 2020 Hamilton Emerging Artist Award for Writing. She is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and lives in Hamilton with her partner and daughter.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Nolan Natasha chats with Andrew about his poetry collection, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? Andrew asks about beauty and handwriting poems. Happy holidays!

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Nolan Natasha is a queer and trans writer, performer, and filmmaker of Faroese and English ancestry, a settler living on unceded Mi’Kmaw territory in Halifax, Canada. Nolan has been a finalist for the CBC poetry prize, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry prize, the Geist postcard contest, and the runner-up for the Thomas Morton fiction prize. His debut poetry collection, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? was released in the fall of 2019 with Invisible publishing.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Andrew is joined by Michele Vanderwal and Michelle Arnett from Rose Garden Press to talk about his new chapbook, Poems for Different Yous, and the others they are publishing this month! They talk about philosophy, socks, and reading poems aloud. A true joy!

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Michelle Arnett is a co-founder of Rose Garden Press, through which she self-published a collection of poetry, the bird bath poems (2020). Her poetry has also been published by Canthius (2021). She resides in London, Ontario, where she completed her Master’s of Library and Information Science at Western University.

Michele (Nicole) Vanderwal has self-published two collections of poetry, Touch Consciousness (Lulu, 2014) and the bird bath poems (Rose Garden Press, 2020). She currently resides in Mount Brydges as the Publisher and co-founder of Rose Garden Press, which publishes handcrafted poetry chapbooks.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Souvankham Thammavongsa, Kayla Czaga, Ottavia Paluch, Jan Zwicky, and Tina Do each join Andrew for an interview about their involvement in Best Canadian Poetry 2021! Five interviews in one episode? What a treat!

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Síle Englert discusses her new (debut!) poetry collection, The Lost Time Accidents. Andrew wonders about bodies and movement. What a time!

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Síle Englert is a queer, Autistic writer and multi-disciplinary artist. She is the author of The Lost Time Accidents, her debut poetry collection from icehouse press, and two chapbooks: The Phobic’s Handbook (Anstruther Press, 2020) and Threadbare (Baseline Press, 2019). Síle’s writing has placed Second in CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest and Freefall Magazine’s Fiction contest, and was shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year in 2020. Síle’s recent work can be found in the way out is the way in: an anthology of disabled poets from the League of Canadian Poets, and I Found Myself in You, a collaborative chapbook from Collusion Books.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Tara Borin discusses their debut poetry collection, The Pit. Andrew asks Tara where to find inspiration. What a joy!

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Tara Borin is a queer, nonbinary settler poet living and writing in  the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Dawson City, Yukon.  Their debut full-length poetry collection, The Pit, is available with Nightwood Editions. Tara’s work has also been anthologized in Best  New Poets In Canada 2018 (Quattro Books) and in Resistance: Righteous  Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press).

Tara’s poems have been published in Prism International, Prairie Fire, The LaHave Review, Red Alder Review, and elsewhere online and in print. They completed The Writer’s Studio Online with Simon Fraser University in 2019.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Tolu Oloruntoba talks poetry as science, what he aspires to in his work, and his debut poetry collection, The Junta of Happenstance. Andrew reveals the limits of his vocabulary. It's a fun one!

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Tolu Oloruntoba, has tried, and abandoned or failed at a variety of things. As a teenager, he worked hard at becoming a comic book artist and fantasy author. This was before going to medical school at 18, which dried out those dreams. Besides, he didn’t consider himself particularly good at either. He practiced medicine for 6 years, and lived in Nigeria and the United States before moving to Canada. He has somehow not abandoned poetry since he started to write it at 16, and had his debut collection of poetry, The Junta of Happenstance, published in May 2021. These days, he manages virtual health projects in British Columbia, and lives with his partner and two young children in so-called Surrey, BC, in territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, and Kwantlen First Nations.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Brandon Wint discusses family history, spatial poetry, and his debut poetry collection, Divine Animal. Andrew shakes off the rust and interviews his first guest in months. It's a blast!

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Ontario born poet and spoken word artist Brandon Wint uses poetry to attend to the joy and devastation and inequity associated with this era of human and ecological history. Increasingly, his work on the page and in performance casts a tender but robust attention toward the movements and impacts of colonial, capitalist logic, and how they might be undone. His poems and essays have been published in national anthologies, including The Great Black North: Contemporary African-Canadian Poetry (Frontenac House, 2013) and Black Writers Matter (University of Regina Press, 2019). Divine Animal is his debut book of poetry.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Michael Deibert discusses being an emerging writer, reading practices, and his debut chapbook. Andrew talks to Michael about mundane images and fearing writing about himself. It's a great time!

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Michael Deibert is a poet and painter currently living between Toronto and Vancouver, and studying at the University of British Columbia. His debut chapbook, The Gunshot Before the Marathon, was published by the Soap Box Press in 2019.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Molly Cross-Blanchard joins Andrew to discuss her debut poetry collection, Exhibitionist. Andrew talks to Molly about mental health and body image. It's a blast!

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Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert, SK), and living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC). She holds an English BA from the University of Winnipeg and a Creative Writing MFA from the University of British Columbia, and is the Publisher at Room magazine. Her debut poetry chapbook is I Don't Want to Tell You (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2018) and her debut full-length book of poetry is Exhibitionist (Coach House Books, 2021).

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Leah Horlick joins Andrew to discuss her latest poetry collection, Moldovan Hotel. Andrew talks to Leah about community in the pandemic. It's a delight!

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Leah Horlick is a writer and poet who grew up as a settler on Treaty Six Cree Territory & the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon. Her first book, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for a 2013 ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her second collection, For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a 2016 Stonewall Honour Book by the American Library Association, and she was awarded Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers that same year. She lived on Unceded Coast Salish Territories in Vancouver for nearly ten years, during which time she and her dear friend Estlin McPhee ran REVERB, a queer and anti-oppressive reading series.  She now lives on Treaty Seven Territory & Region 3 of the Métis Nation in Calgary. Her long-awaited third collection of poems, Moldovan Hotel, was released this spring from Brick Books. 

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Rob Taylor returns to talk about his latest poetry collection, Strangers. Andrew asks Rob about community and editing. It's a joy!

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Rob Taylor is the author of Strangers (Biblioasis, 2021) and three other poetry collections. He is also the editor of What the Poets are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation (Nightwood Editions, 2018), and the guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2019 (Biblioasis, 2019).

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Aidan Chafe returns to the pod to talk about his latest collection, Gospel Drunk. Andrew questions Aidan about hockey bros and James Joyce. It's a thoroughly enjoyable time!

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Aidan Chafe is the author of the poetry collections Gospel Drunk (University of Alberta Press) and Short Histories of Light (McGill-Queen's University Press), which was longlisted for the 2019 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. He has also published two chapbooks Right Hand Hymns (Frog Hollow Press) and Sharpest Tooth (Anstruther Press). His work has appeared in journals and literary magazines in Canada, the United States, England and Australia. He lives and works on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Burnaby, BC).

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, Gentlemen of the Shade, The Shadow List, and Finding Home. Jen teaches at The Writers’ Studio Online with Simon Fraser University, acquires and edits fiction for Wolsak & Wynn, and co-hosts the podcast Can’t Lit.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s writing has been shortlisted for the 2020 Bridport Prize for International Creative Writing and nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prizes. It has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Maisonneuve, Gutter: the magazine of new Scottish and international writing, and is forthcoming in EVENT and Vallum. She is the author of Port of Being, a finalist for the 2019 Vancouver Book Award, BC Book Prizes, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She is at work on a novel.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of one chapbook, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Stephen Collis chats about his new poetry collection, A History of the Theories of Rain. Andrew interrogates Stephen's love for slashes and dislike of the word "Anthropocene." It's a lovely time!

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Stephen Collis is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (Talonbooks 2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (Talonbooks 2010), Once in Blockadia (Talonbooks 2016) and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (Talonbooks 2018). In 2019 he was awarded the Latner Writers’ Trust of Canada Poetry Prize in recognition of his body of work. In 2021 Talonbooks will publish A History of the Theories of Rain. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of one chapbook, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Cole Nowicki jumps on the podcast to chat about a fine. collection, vol. I.  Andrew talks about interdisciplinary art. It's a great day to listen!

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Cole Nowicki is a writer, producer, and publisher based in Vancouver, BC. His work has appeared in The Walrus, Maisonneuve, McSweeney’s, VICE, and more. He also produces, hosts, and publishes the interdisciplinary event fine. and its print extension fine. press.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of one chapbook, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Manahil Bandukwala discusses her and Conyer Clayton's new collaborative chapbook, "Sprawl." Andrew talks about different forms of sharing writing. It's a really nice time!

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Manahil Bandukwala is a Pakistani writer and artist based in Mississauga. She has two solo chapbooks, Paper Doll (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Pipe Rose (battleaxe press, 2018), and two collaborative chapbooks, Sprawl (Collusion Books, 2020) with Conyer Clayton, and Towers (Collusion Books, 2020) with VII. In 2019, she won Room magazine’s Emerging Writer Award and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. She is completing her MA in English at UWaterloo.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of one chapbook, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Marilyn Dumont discusses editing Best Canadian Poetry 2020.  Andrew talks about mentorship and pandemic reading. It's good stuff!

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Marilyn Dumont is of Cree/Métis ancestry, her Dumont family having lived in the Edmonton area which has a rich Métis historical and contemporary presence. Poet, writer, and professor, Marilyn Dumont teaches with the Faculty of Native Studies and the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her four collections of poetry have all won either provincial or national poetry awards. She was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada, and in 2019, she was awarded the Alberta Lieutenant Governor's Distinguished Artist Award.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of the chapbook Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Natasha Ramoutar discusses her poetry collection, Bittersweet.  Andrew talks about light poems and mentorship. It's a joyous occasion!

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Natasha Ramoutar is an Indo-Guyanese writer by way of Scarborough (Ganatsekwyagon) at the east side of Toronto. She is the fiction editor of Feel Ways, an anthology of Scarborough writing, and the Social Media Assistant at the Festival of Literary Diversity. She lives in Scarborough, Ontario.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of one chapbook, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Amy Mitchell and Aaron Schneider from The /tƐmz/ Review & 845 Press talk about their forthcoming chapbook titles.  Andrew reads from his chapbook and is blown away by the quality of the other 845 Press titles. It's a fun time!

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Click here to view 845 Press' chapbook catalogue!

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Aaron Schneider teaches in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University, where he also runs the Creative Writers Speakers Series. His stories have appeared in The Danforth Review, filling station, The Puritan, Hamilton Arts and Letters, untethered, and The Chattahoochee Review.  His first book, Grass-Fed, is available from Quattro Books. Visit his website here.

Amy Mitchell is The /tƐmz/ Review's social media editor (as well as a writing editor) and a college professor. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Western University. Her reading tendencies have been described as "promiscuous"; she is interested in a wide range of fiction and poetry, and particularly enjoys finding new and interesting works in translation.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

andrea bennett chats about her new essay collection, Like a Boy but Not a Boy.  Andrew asks where essays come from. It's just an all around great time!

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andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and editor. Their writing has been published by The Atlantic, the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Hazlitt, Vice, Reader’s Digest, Vogue Italia, Quill & Quire, Chatelaine, and many other outlets. andrea’s first book of essays, Like a Boy but Not a Boy, is out now with Arsenal Pulp Press. andrea’s first book of poetry, Canoodlers, came out with Nightwood Editions in 2014. Their Moon Travel travel guide to Montréal is now available, as is their guide to Québec City.

andrea is an editor and designer at Talonbooks, the former Editor-in-Chief of Maisonneuve,  and the designer for PRISM international. Originally from Hamilton, she is now back on the west coast after a stint in Montréal. She holds a BA in English and French from the University of Guelph, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She/they; Mx.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Aislinn Hunter discusses her novel, The Certainties.  Andrew talks about Aislinn's novel being the first he's read in about a year. It's a blast!

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Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning novelist and poet and the author of seven highly acclaimed books including the novel ‘The World Before Us’ – a NYT Editor’s Choice book, a Guardian and NPR Book the Year, and winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her work has been adapted into music, dance, art, and film forms ­– including a feature film based on her novel ‘Stay’ which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hunter holds degrees in Creative Writing, Art History, Writing and Cultural Politics and English Literature. In 2018 she served as a Canadian War Artist working with Canadian and NATO forces at CFB Suffield. She teaches creative writing part-time and lives in Vancouver, BC.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Sadiqa de Meijer talks about her poetry collection, The Outer Wards.  Andrew fumbles through questions and talks about Sadiqa's poem that he wrote about in his thesis. It's fun for everyone!

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Sadiqa de Meijer’s debut collection, Leaving Howe Island, was a nominee for the 2014 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and for the 2014 Pat Lowther Award. Her book of essays, alfabet / alphabet, is out now with Palimpsest Press. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario.

Click here to attend Sadiqa's reading with Annick MacAskill and Klara du Plessis on 2 October, 2020.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Sachiko Murakami talks about their latest poetry collection, Render.  Andrew discusses form and trying to figure out how to write with it. It's a wonderful time!

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Sachiko Murakami is the author of Render (2020), The Invisibility Exhibit (2008), Rebuild (2011), and Get Me Out of Here (2015). As a literary worker, she has edited poetry for various presses, worked for trade organizations, hosted reading series, organized conferences, sat on juries, and judged prizes. She lives in Toronto.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Andy Verboom discusses his new poetry collection, DBL.  Andrew talks about Andy's early influence on him as an aspiring writer. It's a joyous occasion!

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Andy Verboom is from subrural Nova Scotia and lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax). He is the publisher of Insomniac Press and Collusion Books and the co-founder of long con magazine. His poetry has won Frog Hollow’s Chapbook Contest and Descant’s Winston Collins Prize, been shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck Prize and Arc's Poem of the Year, and appeared in Prism, The Puritan, Vallum, and elsewhere. DBL is his sixth chapbook.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Annick MacAskill discusses her new poetry collection, Murmurations.  Andrew talks about how e.e. cummings made him leave business school. It's a great time all around!

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Annick MacAskill is a poet and the author of Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020). Her debut collection, No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the J. M. Abraham Poetry Award (Atlantic Book Awards).

MacAskill has been a finalist for the CBC’s Canada Writes Poetry Prize, The Fiddlehead‘s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, Grain Magazine‘s Short Grain Contest, The New Quarterly‘s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest, and other literary honours. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and abroad, including The Humber Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Canadian Notes & Queries, Plenitude, Grain Magazine, Prism, Versal, Room Magazine, The Stinging Fly, The Fiddlehead, Arc, Lemon Hound, and CV2.

Originally from Ontario, she currently lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq.

Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Conyer Clayton discusses her new poetry collection, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite. Andrew asks Conyer about her awesome titles. It's a blast!

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Conyer Clayton was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and now happily calls Ottawa home. She has six chapbooks: Trust Only the Beasts in the Water (above/ground press), /(post ghost press), Undergrowth (bird, buried press), Mitosis (In/Words Magazine and Press), For the Birds. For the Humans. (battleaxe press), and The Marshes (&Co Collective, 2017). She released a collaborative album with Nathanael Larochette, If the river stood still, in August 2018. Her work appears in ARC, Prairie Fire, The Fiddlehead, The Maynard, Puddles of Sky Press, and other publications. She won ARC's 2017 iana Brebner Prize, placed third in Prairie Fire's 2017 Poetry Contest, and received honourable mention in The Fiddlehead's 2018 poetry prize. She is a member of the sound poetry ensemble Quatuor Gualuor, and writes reviews for Cathius. We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite is her first full-length collection of poems.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Kevin Spenst returns to talk Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse. Andrew celebrates a year of Page Fright. It's a fun episode for all!

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Kevin Spenst, a Pushcart Poetry nominee, is the author of Hearts Amok, Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong (both with Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye (the Alfred Gustav Press), Ward Notes (the serif of nottingham), Flip Flop Faces and Unexpurgated Lives (JackPine Press), and most recently Upend (Frog Hollow Press). His work has won the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry, been nominated for both the Alfred G. Bailey Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and has appeared in dozens of publications including Event, the Malahat Review, subTerrain magazine, Prairie Fire, CV2, the Rusty Toque, BafterC, Lemon Hound, Poetry is Dead, and the anthology Best Canadian Poetry 2019. He co-organizes the Dead Poets Reading Series, and teaches Creative Writing at Vancouver Community College. He lives on unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver) with the love of his life Shauna Kaendo.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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Betsy Warland has published 12 books of poetry, creative nonfiction and lyric prose including her best-selling 2010 book of personal essays, Breathing the Page— Reading the Act of Writing. In April of 2016, Oscar of Between—A Memoir of Identity and Ideas was launched by Caitlin Press’ new imprint, Dagger Editions. Reviews have called it “an achievement,” “truly luminous,” and a “tour de force.” In 2013, Warland created a new publishing template called Oscar’s Salon. An interactive salon that features excerpts from her manuscript Oscar of Between, Guest Writers and Artist’s work, the salon also includes a Featured Reader each month as well as readers’ comments.

Warland co-founded with Myrna Kostash the Creative Writers Nonfiction Collective in 2004 that holds an annual conference for cnf writers creativenonfictioncollective.ca. She also founded and is a mentor in the one-on-one six-month International Vancouver Manuscript Intensive Program.

Warland received the Mayor’s Arts Award for Literary in Vancouver in 2016. In 2017, she will be the Lyric Prose and Poetry Mentor for The Writer’s Studio at S.F.U. A professional manuscript consultant/editor for the past 30 years, Warland works with writers from across Canada and abroad.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

Yvonne Blomer comes on the show to discuss Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds. Andrew is intrigued by the task of editing a poetry anthology. It's a wonderful time for all!

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Yvonne Blomer is the author of a travel memoir Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur, and three books of poetry, as well as an editor, teacher and mentor in poetry and memoir. She served as the city of Victoria poet laureate from 2015-2018. In 2018 Yvonne was the Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Bateman Centre and created Ravine, Mouse, a Bird’s Beak, a chapbook of ekphrastic ecological poetry in response to Bateman’s art. In 2017 Yvonne edited the anthology Refugium: Poems for the Pacific (Caitlin Press) with poets responding to their connection to the Pacific from the west coast of North America, and as far away as Japan and New Zealand. Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds is the second in a trilogy of water-based poetry anthologies coming out with Caitlin Press. She lives, works and raises her family on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation. She gives thanks for the privilege of water.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.