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Where Does Poetry Come From?: From Dublin, a Griffin Poetry Prize panel
From the Dublin Writers Festival - Host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the winners of this year's Griffin Poetry Prize, Roo Borson and Charles Simic, along with American poet Carolyn Forché and Irish poet Theo Dorgan about the question "Where Does Poetry Come From?"
Conversations with American poet laureate Billy Collins, and with the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Ned Sherrin
Eleanor Wachtel in conversation with the American poet laureate, Billy Collins about his new collection, Sailing Alone Around the Room: new and selected poems. And did you hear the one about - The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations? Eleanor speaks with the editor of this collection of wit and humour, Ned Sherrin.
Jane Campion talks about her newest film, Bright Star, about the poet John Keats
This week on Writers & Company - Host Eleanor Wachtel talks to New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion. The Oscar-winning writer and director of The Piano (1993) has a new movie about poet John Keats called Bright Star (2009).
Anne Carson discusses her work and her elegy to her brother, Nox
This week on Writers and Company, Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar, and librettist, Anne Carson. The author of Autobiography of Red and The Beauty of the Husband has produced yet another surprising and haunting book, called Nox. It's an elegy to her brother, an epitaph as she calls it, a notebook of memories and fragments. A moving reflection on absence. As she writes in her first entry: I wanted to fill my elegy with light of all kinds. But death makes us stingy. There is…
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A.L. Kennedy on Everything You Need
This week, from Scotland, the quirky, original and provocative writer, A.L. Kennedy. From the complexities of sex to the spiritual aspects of bullfighting, A.L. Kennedy pushes the boundaries of convention. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to A.L. Kennedy on stage last spring at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria.
A Benefit Reading for the League of Canadian Poets: Writes of Spring
A BENEFIT READING FOR THE LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS/ WRITES OF SPRING/ FEATURING: Tom Konyves Anne McKay Marya Fiamegga David West Nellie McClung Eldon Grier Peter Giesbrecht Deborah Foulkes George McWhirter Allan Safarik Carolyn Zanaila Sharon Thesen Lloyd Abbey Beth Jankola Anne Marriott Dale Zieroth/ THURSDAY MARCH 22, 1990 8 PM LA QUENA, 1111 COMMERCIAL DRIVE/ Lee Anne Harris co-ordinator
Tales of Ordinary Madness: Spoken Word/Poetry Readings
Tales of Ordinary Madness Spoken Word/Poetry Readings/ EVERY TUESDAY 9:30 pm at Bukowski's BAR & BISTRO 1447 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C./ FOR INFORMATION OR PARTICIPATION CONTACT SUSAN MULLEN email: replica@smartt.com OR PAY US A VISIT!
The Echoes of the Lakes and Mountains, or, Wonderful Things in the Lake District (Being a Companion to the Guides)
The Great Northwest Salmon Slam
the Great NorthWest SALMON SLAM/ Slam Poetry simple as ... 1-2-3/ A 3-Day, 3-City International Caravan of Explosive Poetry in performance! Featuring Teams from: VANCOUVER,BC PORTLAND, OR SEATTLE, WA SAN FRANCISCO, CA & New York City's TAYLOR MALI! 2-Time National Slam Champion & featured in Paul Devlin's SLAMNATION/ A poet has 1-2-3 minutes to recite an original poem. No Costumes, No props. AND YOU BE THE JUDGE! Judges will be chosen from the Audience!/ JUNE 24-VANCOUVER ROUND 1 THE…
Loiterings Among the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland
Co-op Radio Presents Downtown Eastside Invitational Poetry Project: The First Anniversary of Word, Sound & Power
CO-OP RADIO CFRO 102.7 FM PRESENTS DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE INVITATIONAL POETRY PROJECT THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF WORD SOUND & POWER/ FEATURING Helen POTREBENKO MECCA NORMAL GERRY HANNAH DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE POETS/ CARNEGIE CENTRE Hastings & Main SATURDAY FEB. 18 7:30 - 9:30 Everyone welcome/ Sponsored by Carnegie Community Centre Assoc. with assistance from the Canada Council
Tongue of the Slip #34 in conjunction with the Edgewise Café & the Kootenay School of Writing presents an evening of Telepoetics
Tongue of the Slip #34 in conjunction with the Edgewise Cafe & the Kootenay School of Writing presents an evening of Telepoetics/ ONCE TV WAS CLASSED WITH SPACE SHIPS/ From Toronto & the famous El Mocambo Lillian Allen Sandy Bell Drinka Blage Paul Dutton Michael Holmes Peter McPhee and host poet Kathleen Richardson/ THROUGH THE MODERN MIRACLE OF EARLY 80s TECHNOLOGY, ORDINARY PHONE LINES CAN CARRY BOTH AUDIO AND VIDEO STILLS MAKING LIVE SIMULCAST POETRY POSSIBLE. THANKS SLOWCAN/ In…
Through the Wordsworth Country
