Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws

I blather about writing couples and poets who relocate and then introduce Catherine Greenwood and she chats about process and reads a piece with geese and bagpipes and delicious sounds in it!

I recite these five short parts as an invocation to spring, including slightly hoarse voice here and there and, in the middle, cat.

Memories from Joe Rosenblatt, a bio from James Deahl, his 100th anniversary, I shout love. Enjoy!

As translated by Jeramy Dodds. I love the multiplicities of naming here. Chris’s 13th death day. Go well in the unknown realms my love.

There are cats and magpies and thanks. Nikki talks language and music and re-mixes Mary Oliver (whom I loathe but remain open minded about ;) Enjoy!

Wow. So this is a longish and most delightful lecture on the origins of poetry in one’s being by this lovely Calgarian and it’s preceded by me trying twice (phonecall interrupted!!) to do her bio and intro after reading a passage about religion and art from Christian Wimen! Enjoy :)

A five minute poem from her book Shiner (which is curiously not listed as one of her books in her latest collection The Natural Hustle!). I love the last lines I must say. Only one inversion occurred: when I say doing nothing, she wrote nothing doing. Thanks Eva.

In which I speak of supporting this podcast and other artistic endeavors via Patreon and otherwise (o and thanks to Susan McCaslin and Robert Priest too for their one-time $50 contributions!) and then chat about Ralph and his work and life including reactions to him from those such as Phyllis Webb ;) I read his poem Sessional Memoranda at the end and mispronounce IMPUDENT but o well. Nothing is pe...

I almost get through this nearly 7 min poem without one stumble. It’s not easy. It’s a beautiful elegy.

I bemoan Monday and people who fear poetry and Adam talks about writing and reads a wonderful poem Inherit. Enjoy!

It’s afternoon! I saw the Northern Lights. Does poetry have an audience? Hollay ghadery talks of this and reads a poem on sobriety. Enjoy!

A short week for outlaws! I recommend Stephen Marche’s On Failure and then Nyla extemporizes and reads poems by two other poets. Enjoy!

Ten difficult stanzas of outrage and examination. From the Ecopoetry Anthology.

I chat about publisher tardiness in response and recall a quote from Les Murray and then introduce Brian (with apologies for not editing the end of the chat), followed by his ekphrastic talk and four short pieces from Shakespeare in Halifax. Enjoy!

Dec 13/84-Mar 13/23. Rest in power drummer and friend.

I talk about grief and David Bowie and multimedia art then intro the one of a kind Gary Barwin’s life and talk and poem. Enjoy!

In which I say you know too much and miss “miserably” from the WCW lines, and also I have two intros: one on a personal tragedy and the further decimations of newspeak, and the other on the Griffin and then a bio/intro for Barger. And then his talk and poem. Enjoy! (And also get fiercer!)

Beautiful devastating poem in a variety of stylistic parts from The Ecopoetry Anthology!

In which I ramble through texts, starting with a line from the Poetic Edda and delving through my headache into notions of wrongness with Stephen Marche’s On Writing and Failure, Christian Women’s Ambition and Survival and Rachel Sucker’s The Poetics of Wrongness , ending with a poem from 1937, Orpheus, by WH Auden (repeating the last line twice because I read it wrong ;) There you have it! Enjoy...

I still have a cold ;) I read a poem against Daylight Savings, intro Kate and she chats about China and poetic influences and reads a poem against domestic abuse called Derrick’s Fist. Enjoy!

Some snow falls, a bit of a grrrr about blurbs and identity, intro to Chris and her compelling talk and beautiful poem, Privilege. Enjoy!

A difficult one to do but I want to honour her enduring poems!

I was sick yesterday so couldn’t record an episode and my voice is still somewhat rough but I had to recite a poem by a fierce female poet for Women’s Day. So much to say about being a woman and a poet. Suffice to say, it remains challenging and deserves to be fought for. Yar!

A short one about geology and poetry which I introduce by speaking of my parents and blues fest. Enjoy!

In which I chat about being home, mouse slaughter, Jeopardy questions and then intro my ill-fated reading with Jim Nason who has a wonderful chat and poem: This Tree is a Rabbit. Enjoy!