Writers Radio

Episode: P039 Broadcast dates: July 25 to August 07, 2022 Length:  30 mins Host: Carole Harmon Katherine 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....

Much of Heather Menzies' adult life has been spent writing, researching, teaching and giving talks throughout the world about critical issues of our time. Understanding herself to be a seeker, and feeling the limits of the current academic discourse, she welcomed the inner debate between her intellectual self and the self that knew there were other experiential ways of "knowing". In...

Jane Mortifee’s 2018 novel, Out of the Fire, could be read as a balm for the troubled, chaotic times we find ourselves in. It tells of a quest for forgiveness and healing from the ravages of vengeance, bitterness and hate. On the riverbank near an African village, a violent act sets into motion fates that intertwine and continue to bring anguish and torment through to the next generation. How can...

Writer: Shamcher Bryn Beorse Episode: P036 Broadcast dates: June 13 to June 26, 2022 Length:  44'' mins Host: Carole Harmon Carol Sill in conversation with Carole Harmon Airdate: May 30 - June 12, 2022 - at the top of each hour, every hour Join host Carole Harmon in conversation with Carol Sill, publisher of the previously unpublished memoir of Shamcher Bryn Beorse, A SUFI WENT TO WAR. S...

Writer: Shamcher Bryn Beorse Episode: P035 Broadcast dates: May 30 to June 12, 2022 Length:  36'' Host: Carole Harmon Carol Sill in conversation with Carole Harmon Airdate: May 30 - June 12, 2022 - at the top of each hour, every hour Shamcher Bryn Beorse was a Norwegian engineer, economist, author, and sufi who distinguished himself in WW2 as spy, strategist and soldier often working wit...

Lawrence Feuchtwanger joins Ingrid Rose to discuss his work and read from his poetry book, Refugee Song, and from his unpublished novel, Skin.  Lawrence writes:…of the sweetness. tenderness, disillusionment and bitterness of growing up and coming of age amidst the tumult and aching beauty of South Africa …of the legacy of wanderings and displacements of my parents, and their parents, and their par...

Marsha Skrypuch in conversation with Carole Harmon Aired: May 2 - 15, 2022 Marsha 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 cop...

Fiona Tinwei Lam is a well loved Vancouver poet who became the City of Vancouver's sixth Poet Laureate in 2022. In conversation with Ingrid Rose , Fiona discusses her legacy project, City Poems Contest , in which youth, emerging, and established poets are invited to create poems. These poems would foster greater understanding about significant historical, cultural and ecological sites on the...

Jeremy Page in conversation with Carole Harmon Aired: April 4 - 17, 2022 Jeremy 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 jo...

BETWEEN TWO Daniela Elza Airdate: 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 Harmon Daniela 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 m...

Episode: P029 Broadcast dates: March 07 to March 20, 2022 Length:  23 mins Host: Ingrid Rose Kate Bird in conversation with Ingrid Rose Kate Bird's first camera was a gift from her father, with whom she came to share his love of photography. Through every hardship and many moves in a troubled life, Kate’s father preserved the photographs he’d taken in his early years as an outdoorsman, and hi...

Episode: P028 Broadcast dates: February 21, 2022 to March 06, 2022 Length:  27'' mins Host Ingrid Rose After-effects of Colonialism Broadcast Dates: February 21 - March 6, 2022 1947  In one of its final colonial acts on the Indian sub-continent, Great Britain partitioned disputed Punjab into Indian and Pakistani territories. Ten million people were dislocated and millions died as Muslims...

Episode: P027 START: February 07, 2022 ENDS: February 20, 2022 Length:  26'' mins Host Carole Harmon In 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 2 Squall: Poems in the...

Episode: P026 START: January 24, 2022 ENDS: February 06, 2022 Length:  28'' mins Host Carole Harmon Squall, Part 1: Poems in the Voice of Mary Shelley In 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......

P025 Loss and Resilience Colette Gagnon, Margot Blum, Meharoona Ghani Airdate: January 10 - 23, 2022 A new Writers Radio episode broadcasts every two weeks at the top of each hour, every hour. Listen at writers radio.ca! All living beings: humans, creatures, Earth itself experience trauma and loss. The ability to endure is the resilience each must activate, which has sustained life on Earth for bi...

COSMIC BOWLING Cornela Hoogland & Ted Goodden Airdate Dec. 27 2021 - January 9, 2022 A new Writers Radio episode broadcasts every two weeks at the top of each hour, every hour. Listen at writers radio.ca! The collaboration between poet Cornelia Hoogland and artist Ted Goodden , who live on Hornby Island off the west coast in Canada, began as a life partnership. Now it’s expressed through their...

WINTER SPELL 9 writers remember and muse on the turning of the year Aired  December 13 to December 26, 2021, Length: 35' Host, Carole Harmon 9 writers remember and muse on the turning of the year Broadcast dates: Dec. 13 - 26. 2021 To 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 y...

THREE COMTEMPLATIONS Kurt Trzcinski, David Miller and Garry Ward P022, aired November 29 to December 12, 2021 Length: 25' Host Carole Harmon Poetry + Essay + Jazz Poetry Kurt 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...

CELEBRATING ONE YEAR ON AIR Ingrid Rose , Carole Harmon and Gary Sill This Episode aired from November 15 to November 28, 2021. Length: 38' Hosts, Ingrid Rose, Carole Harmon and Gary Sill Writers 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 milesto...

BIG READER Susan Olding P020, November 01 to November 14, 2021 Length: 30' Host, Ingrid Rose Big Reader; essays Susan Olding "If these essays were glass bells and you struck them one by one with your favourite pen, they would ring with the purest, clearest notes, each chapter in its singularity contributing to the gorgeous orchestral music that this book is. Olding has found exactly the...

LIBERTY'S CHILDREN Judith Lapadat and Gail Madjzoub This Episode aired from October 18 to October 31, 2021. Length: 29' Host, Carole Harmon Gail Madjzoub CRIMSON 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 G...

Towne Crier, Troubadour Kevin Spenst Host, Ingrid Rose Towne Crier, Troubadour In conversation, Ingrid Rose and Vancouver poet Kevin Spenst explore the territory of poem as performance, not on a stage but beyond cultural venues, in city and forest, from park benches and on poetry walks as reader's words interact with listeners in life. During Covid, Kevin performed over thirty physically dist...

Host, Ingrid Rose "The Causes" Cathy Stonehouse is known for her poetry, short stories, and critical writing. These skills are keenly focused in her debut novel, The Causes. Jose´Ramirez is a nineteen year old conscript in Argentina's invasion of Islas Malvinas in 1982. In English this archipelago, off the coast of Argentina in the south Atlantic, is known as the Falkland Islands. C...

Not So Nice: Confessions of an "Innocent" White Woman Alaska born and raised Kate Regan begins her essay with a question: What is the myth of whiteness that those of us born with white skin must journey through and learn from? Sharing with the listener from personal soul work and experiences from her professional career working with companies and organizations as diverse as Lucas Films,...

Traces On The Page Host, Ingrid Rose In conversation with Ingrid Rose , Jen Currin reflects on the challenge she has encountered in writing her recent short story collection, Hider/Seeker : "...we can get maybe 10% or even less of lived experience onto the page." This quest to capture the ineffable nature of relationship permeates all Jen's work, as beloved poet and now as a teller...