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Writers RadioP090 Writers Gambit part 01Gambit, 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 1Cathy 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...2024-07-2934 min
Writers RadioP089 Consider - Susan McCaslinConsider the World Treeher mantling greenour swaddling gown dismantledan iron word falling felling, disruptingold growth's primal ground...Susan McCaslinCanadian 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 i...2024-07-1530 min
Writers RadioP088 The Child I Was, The Adult I BecameListen 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 becameThis 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 par...2024-07-0153 min
Writers RadioP086 InsteadThe 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 HarmonAuthor Maria Coffey grew up in a conservative Irish Catholic family with a mother who wished no...2024-06-0332 min
Writers RadioP060 Surviving Conquest, Dead and Alive, (part 3)Title: Dead And Alive (part 3), Living With AncestorsSub Title: Surviving ConquestEpisode: P060START: May 15, 2023ENDS: May 28, 2023Length: 28' minsHost/Producer: Carole HarmonVeni, vidi, vici. This oft quoted Latin phrase, I came, I saw, I conquered, attributed to Julius Caesar in ca. AD 46, expresses the prevailing sentiment of western colonialism for the last 2000 yearsIn Healing With Land and Ancestors, Gillian Goslinga writes of the land and home she recently moved to, on the Rio Verde River in southern Colorado, and her discovery of its ancient t...2023-05-2828 min
Writers RadioP058 An Unprecedented Level of ImaginationTitle: Dead And Alive (part 2)Sub Title: An Unprecedented Level of ImaginationEpisode: P058START: April 17, 2023ENDS: April 30, 2023Length: 21' minsHost/Producer: Carole HarmonSharon English and Sharon Simone are writers and friends who have been deeply influenced by the writing of Barry Lopez, in particular his final book, Horizon, which issues the call for "an unprecedented level of imagination" in facing the challenges of warming climate, species extinction, and continuing global conflict.In this episode of Dead and Alive, Being With Ancestors Sharon English reads her section o...2023-05-0121 min
Writers RadioP056 Dead And Alive (part1) Being With AncestorsTitle: Dead And Alive (part 1)Sub Title: Being With AncestorsEpisode: P056START: March 20, 2023ENDS: April 02, 2023Length: 28' minsHost/Producer: Carole HarmonDark Matter Women Witnessing, an online literary journal founded and edited by Lise Weil of Montreal, Canada publishes writing and visual art created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse. It is a home for dreams, visions and communications with the non-human world, especially those with messages for how we might begin to heal our broken relationship to the earth.Dead and Al...2023-04-0327 min
The Hire thru Retire PodcastHow Employers Can Help Improve Financial Outcomes for a Diverse Workforce with Voya's Tom Armstrong & Carole MendozaIn this episode, we’re focused on the discussion of helping to close benefits and savings gaps to improve financial outcomes for a diverse workforce. Sharing some pioneering research conducted at Voya, with the support of our clients, to get some valuable insights and opportunities for employers to consider in their own practice. To engage in the discussion, Bill is joined by Tom Armstrong, VP, customer insight and analytics and head of the Behavioral Finance Institute – and Carole Mendoza, VP of benefits at Voya. Tom and Carole share more about the research which takes a deep dive on understanding of h...2023-03-2817 min
Writers RadioP055 The Mercy JournalsAllen 'Mercy' Quincy, the protagonist of this novel, writes as he begins his journal:If I go to my memories directly I'll never survive. I will take the longer road and lay an ambush. I will describe my world. I will tell you about Ruby.The Mercy Journals is set 1n 2047 in the wake of a third world war. Owing also to runaway effects of climate change and the collapse of nation/states, over a third of the global population has already died. Former soldier Allen "Mercy" Quincy suffers from PTSD and i...2023-03-2025 min
Writers RadioP051 Daughters of FireTwo Poets write of their homeland, and their dislocation.Shadi Eskandani and Sareh Farmand are Iranian born Canadian immigrant writers and friends. Join them in readings from their poetry and in conversation with Ingrid Rose. SAREH was born in Tehran and lived there until she was two; she lived briefly in Germany and Italy, and finally immigrated to Canada.Her new release, Pistachios In My Pocket was published by At Bay Press of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was selected by CBC Books as “Best Book of Poetry Selection, 2022.” CBC...2023-01-2332 min
Writers RadioP047 Queen of Flowers - Carole HarmonNo glasses, playing in the snow; this is a black-and-white photograph of my mother taken by my father before I was born, likely in the first year of their marriage. I hand coloured the print many years later, in the 1970's, when I was her age.Each fall the writers radio team takes a turn at presenting our own work. This is my turn for 2022. Ingrid and I both chose to write of our mothers; our vivacious mothers had a lot in common. 2022 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of my parent's deaths, two months apart in 1997. ...2022-11-2825 min
Writers RadioP045 Jon Whyte Bard of Banff, Part-1Jon Whyte (1941 - 1992) was a Canadian author whose soul work was poetry but who also wrote books of history about his beloved Canadian Rockies. Unlike many Canadian artists who pursue careers in America and Europe, or in academia, Jon Whyte chose to root his life and work in the Canadian west, its people and history, especially the mountains, and in particular the Bow Valley. He was born in Banff and lived most of his adult life in that small mountain community.Jon was instrumental in igniting and spreading culture in Banff as manager of Banff Book and...2022-10-1735 min
Writers RadioP044 Ingrid Rose - The Singer and the Song"You called up love as rainmakers call upon the rain" Ingrid Rose writing about her mother in "Embracing Her"In keeping with our Harvest theme, Ingrid Rose re-members her mother in Embracing Her.Writers Radio launched in November 2020. On our first anniversary we inaugurated an annual tradition of including work by our three producers: Ingrid Rose, Gary Sill, and myself, Carole Harmon, in our programming so that we reveal ourselves as well as the writers we have represented.In this episode we celebrate the work of Ingrid Rose.Embracing Her is...2022-10-0327 min
Writers RadioP043 Marsha Skrypuch and Tariq Malik | Winterkill | Exit WoundsEpisode: P043Broadcast dates: September 19 to October 02, 2022Length: 38'' minsHost: Carole HarmonNew releases by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Tariq Malik share themes of the human consequences of war which continue to play out long after the war has ended.Winterkill is set during the Holodomor, which means death by starvation in Ukrainian. This was a man made famine created in 1932/33 by Joseph Stalin. The Holodomor starved to death millions of people in Ukraine, rural Russia and Kazakhstan as part of Stalin's plan to modernize agriculture through creating collective farms and eli...2022-09-1938 min
Writers RadioP039 The Ghost BrushEpisode: P039Broadcast dates: July 25 to August 07, 2022Length: 30 minsHost: Carole HarmonKatherine Govier's historical novel, The Ghost Brush celebrates the life of Oei (hey you) the daughter, student, assistant and eventually fellow artist of Katsushika Hokusai, the most famous artist of the Edo period (1603 - 1867) in Japan . In The Ghost Brush Oei is a ghost narrator of her own life.There is in this book a mystery to be solved; an intimate look at Edo, a closed culture poised on the brink of opening itself to the west; a portrait of a...2022-08-0830 min
Writers RadioP036 Man and This Mysterious UniverseWriter: Shamcher Bryn BeorseEpisode: P036Broadcast dates: June 13 to June 26, 2022Length: 44'' minsHost: Carole HarmonCarol Sill in conversation with Carole HarmonAirdate: May 30 - June 12, 2022 - at the top of each hour, every hourJoin host Carole Harmon in conversation with Carol Sill, publisher of the previously unpublished memoir of Shamcher Bryn Beorse, A SUFI WENT TO WAR.Shamcher (his Sufi name) was a Norwegian engineer, economist, author, and Sufi who distinguished himself in WW2 as spy, strategist and soldier often working with M...2022-06-1344 min
Writers RadioP035 A Sufi Went To WarWriter: Shamcher Bryn BeorseEpisode: P035Broadcast dates: May 30 to June 12, 2022Length: 36''Host: Carole HarmonCarol Sill in conversation with Carole HarmonAirdate: May 30 - June 12, 2022 - at the top of each hour, every hourShamcher Bryn Beorse was a Norwegian engineer, economist, author, and sufi who distinguished himself in WW2 as spy, strategist and soldier often working with MI 5 and resistance fighters.His memoir of that time was completed in 1979, a year before his death. It was published in May 2022 by Alph Glyph Publications a...2022-05-3036 min
Writers RadioP033 Traitors Among Us - Marsha Forchuk SkrypuchMarsha Skrypuch in conversation with Carole HarmonAired: May 2 - 15, 2022Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch writes about war from a young person’s point of view. She is the author of more than twenty books for young people; many shine a spotlight on the complicated history of World War 2 and its aftermath, still being enacted today in the war in Ukraine.Her protagonists are children and teens who must cope with the horrors of war as active participants, finding their way with resilience, courage, and wit.Traitors Am...2022-05-0334 min
Writers RadioP031 Love and Death - Jeremy PageJeremy Page in conversation with Carole HarmonAired: April 4 - 17, 2022Jeremy Page is a writer, editor, playwright and translator. He was Director of the Centre for Language Studies at the University of Sussex.Carole Harmon comments:I'm struck by the fellowship of writers who pursue similar means of reaching readers and listeners. Jeremy is founding editor of the long running literary journal, Frogmore Papers, and a member of Needlewriters, a co-operative which showcases writers from Sussex and Kent in England. My co-producer, 2022-04-0529 min
Writers RadioP030 Between TwoBETWEEN TWODaniela ElzaAirdate: March 21 - April 3, 2022 A new Writers Radio episode broadcasts at the top of each hour, every hour. Listen at writers radio.ca!Daniela Elza in Conversation With Carole HarmonDaniela Elza's poems explore the space between two: people, species, media, times. In this episode poems from her 2020 release the broken boat probe the break-down of her twenty year marriage. We also discuss Daniela's collaborations with other artists.Poems from milk...2022-03-2230 min
Writers RadioP027 Squall, Part 2, Poems in the Voice of Mary ShelleySquall, PART 2Poems in the Voice of Mary ShelleyAir Date: February 07, 2022My zoom conversation with Chad Norman about writing Squall was long and fascinating. We couldn't seem to stop talking. I have broken this conversation into three parts: two episodes about the writing of the book and a separate section (to be put on Writer's Radio website as an additional podcast) about the trials of launching his book during a pandemic.The first episode explores the germination of Squall and the process of writing it. The second episode f...2022-02-2325 min
Writers RadioP027 Squall, Part 2, Poems in the Voice of Mary ShelleyEpisode: P027START: February 07, 2022ENDS: February 20, 2022Length: 26'' minsHost Carole HarmonIn PART 1 we hear of Percy Shelley's drowning in 1822 at age 29 in the Ligurian sea, off the coast of the town of Viareggio, Italy, when his sailing boat capsized in a storm. We also hear how Chad Norman came to write Squall in the voice of Mary Shelley.PART 2Squall: Poems in the Voice of Mary ShelleyChad Norman discusses his experience as a man attempting to plumb the psyche of a woman he greatly ad...2022-02-0725 min
Writers RadioP026 Squall, Part 1, Poems in the Voice of Mary ShelleyEpisode: P026START: January 24, 2022ENDS: February 06, 2022Length: 28'' minsHost Carole HarmonSquall, Part 1: Poems in the Voice of Mary ShelleyIn Mary Shelley's Tempest, his introduction to Squall, Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley, George Elliott Clarke wrote:I've known Chad Norman for thirty years. He's written fine work before, but Squall is one of his best....Certainly Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley is rendered brilliantly herein, both as the creator of a masterpiece, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and as the critical curator of a spouse-maker's legacy.2022-01-2428 min
Writers RadioP023 Winter SpellWINTER SPELL9 writers remember and muse on the turning of the yearAired December 13 to December 26, 2021, Length: 35'Host, Carole Harmon9 writers remember and muse on the turning of the yearBroadcast dates: Dec. 13 - 26. 2021To celebrate the coming season we invited writers who participated in one of our programs during the past year to share memories or musings on the turning of the year in any of its manifestations as celebration, contemplation, cycle and renewal.•Medwyn McConachy: Win...2021-12-1335 min
Writers RadioP022 Three ContemplationsTHREE COMTEMPLATIONSKurt Trzcinski, David Miller and Garry WardP022, aired November 29 to December 12, 2021Length: 25'Host Carole HarmonPoetry + Essay + Jazz PoetryKurt Trzcinski composes a poem suite upon visiting Glacier Bay Alaska.David Miller collaborates with pocket gophers.Garry Ward riffs on life and music.KURT TRZCINSKI lives in Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada. His work and studies as a biologist lead him far afield. With the mind of a scientist and...2021-11-2925 min
Writers RadioP021 Anniversary EpisodeCELEBRATING ONE YEAR ON AIRIngrid Rose, Carole Harmon and Gary SillThis Episode aired from November 15 to November 28, 2021. Length: 38'Hosts, Ingrid Rose, Carole Harmon and Gary SillWriters Radio celebrates its first anniversary.Our thanks to the forty writers who joined us this year and to our listeners in 100 + countries!Ingrid, Gary and Carole are so delighted to reach this milestone. For this anniversary episode we offer our own work, as well as a conversation...2021-11-1638 min
Writers RadioP019 Liberty's ChildrenLIBERTY'S CHILDRENJudith Lapadat and Gail MadjzoubThis Episode aired from October 18 to October 31, 2021. Length: 29'Host, Carole HarmonGail MadjzoubCRIMSON INK : A Novel of Modern Iran 1955-2011 Based on historical facts, Crimson Ink traces the multi-generational interweaving of three Iranian families through decades of great social change and upheaval. The novel is grounded in Gail's knowledge and experience of living within an extended Iranian Baha'i family over the course of her twenty year marriage.Th...2021-10-1929 min
Writers RadioS105 Legacy, A Fine BalanceCAROLE HARMON: In Mountain Light — Walking With My GrandfatherIn this essay Carole explores her family's role in the colonial history of the Canadian Rockies where she was raised in a family of landscape photographers and worked as a photographer and publisher for many years.I didn't intend to write about the plight of aboriginal people in Canada, Carole says. I began to think about boundaries. The National Parks were supposedly created for ALL Canadians but the National Parks Act excluded aboriginal people from these, their ancestral lands. Aboriginal people in Cana...2021-08-0925 min
Writers RadioS104 Honouring The Past"Honouring The Past"Summer Starr & Sharon HalfnightIn her introduction to the anthology Lisa Iversen writes:In the collective field of the soul, everyone and everything belongs. This knowingness provides a necessary resource when there are experiences of injustice....Bringing visibility to both perpetrators and victims of injustice, whether past or present, is necessary to heal inheritances of collective trauma.In this episode one writer explores her ancestral history while another looks at today's challenges and imagines the future.Summer Starr2021-07-1222 min
Writers RadioS102 Roots, Borders and BelongingKarin Konstantynowicz:Roots Borders and BelongingJune Blue Spruce:Warning: Whiteness May Be Hazardous to Your HealthHost, Carole Harmon, Music and audio production, Gary SillKarin Konstantynowicz and her family emigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe following World War 2. Their roots are in contested territory which has changed its name, and its overlords many times. Starting with the idea of an "invasive species", Karin muses on the nature of identity and belonging and the experiences she and her family had as new immigrants to...2021-05-1727 min
Writers RadioP008 Mothering In This Time -Mothering In This TimeBarbara Baydala reads three of her poems: She Emerges, Woman With Kind Eyes Says Stay Home, Round the Block Zoe Dagneault reads from her short story, In Her ShoesHost, Carole HarmonWho are the souls entering our world at this challenging time of pandemic, global climate crisis and social unrest? How can we nurture and raise them to face the challenges of their future?Barbara Baydala became a grandmother six months before the Covid Pandemic was an...2021-02-2332 min
Writers RadioP006 A Grimm Of PoemsCathie Borrie reads re-imagined fairytales from The Brothers Grimm (poetry)Interview by Ingrid RoseHost Carole HarmonCathie Borrie’s re-working of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales surprise with unexpected reversals in both plot and character. Stories which terrified and informed generations of children persist in our collective unconscious and are as relevant today as they have ever been.Cathie Borrie has a background in public health and law; she has published both memoir and poetry and lives in Vancouver, Canada.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to...2021-01-2525 min
Writers RadioP005 Reality, PerceptionJulian Shilcock: Lest it Should Fall (poetry) and The Past Has Long Fingers (fiction)Hannah Phillips: Object-Obsess-Compulse (lyric prose) and Rebellion in the Night (poetry)Host, Carole HarmonThere is an uncanny connection between the work of these two writers who have never met but whose concerns with society and mental health, and their deep grounding in science, creates a resonance. Listen in and see if you agree.Julian Shillcock is a physicist and writer currently living and working in Lausanne, Switzerland.Hannah Phillips, Australian b...2021-01-1134 min
Writers RadioP004 Rapp'n and Riff'nJacinda, ‘Jake’ Oldale: A New Energy (poem) and Beneath the Surface (song)Susan Dambroff and Chris Kammler: Afternoon (improv performance piece)Sarah Knoebber: We Are Not in Danger & Rap Nap (poetry)Carole Harmon: How Can We Attend to That Part of Us Which is Dangerous?Host, Ingrid Rose, produced by Carole Harmon, Music and audio production, Gary SillA collage of sounds and words rings in the New Year of 2021 with exuberant observations on life in chaotic times.Jaci...2020-12-2818 min
Writers RadioP003 The Walk and TwinsKathryn Alexander: On Being More Than One and Less Than One, and The Wave (poetry)Ingrid Rose: The Walk (memoir)Host, Carole HarmonThis episode features two writers with twin brothers. Each explores what it is to be a twin.Kathryn Alexander is a poet and educator who lives in Port Moody, Canada.Ingrid Rose, originally from London, England teaches and writes in Vancouver, Canada.Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode.Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial...2020-12-1427 min
Writers RadioP002 In Search Of My Elderly Young Girl and LayeringMedwyn McConachy: Layering (poetry)Clarissa Green: In Search of My Elderly Young Girl (memoir)Interview by Ingrid RoseHost, Carole HarmonThis is a program which honours lost friends. Medwyn's poem was written after the loss of a long time partner and friend. Medwyn is a multi-media artist, witch, poet and memoirist who lives on Saltspring Island, Canada.Clarissa passed away in the summer of 2020 following her long struggle with cancer. Friends arranged for the posthumous publication of her memoir, Grownupedness. Clarissa was a well l...2020-11-3033 min
Writers RadioP001 All On This Depends, Yarrow's OfferingBarbara Baydala: All on This Depends (poetry)Carole Harmon: Yarrow’s Offering (poetry)Carole Harmon’s long poem, Yarrow’s Offering is read by actors from across Canada: Nancy Beatty, Barbara Parker, Colette Gagnon, Bart Robinson, David Miller, and the poet herself. Host and introduction to Yarrow’s Offering, Ingrid RoseCarole is a Canadian poet, memoirist and photographer and one of the founders and producers of Writers Radio. She lives in Halfmoon Bay, BC.Barbara is a poet and historian who writes with wry humour fro...2020-11-1618 min