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CAROLE HARMON :  In Mountain Light — Walking With My Grandfather In 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...

"Honouring The Past" Summer Starr & Sharon Halfnight In 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 in...

Lost Coast Writers Host, Ingrid Rose A special summer episode curated by Susan Dambroff featuring writers from the  Lost Coast Writers Retreat in northern California Susan Dambroff - Introduction Chris Kammler - The Whistlin' Gal J eff DeMark - Guatemala Chris Kammler - Spring Again 1 & 2 Chris Orr - The Library of Kisses Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Ra...

Home and Away Coming To Terms With Loss and Identity Host, Ingrid Rose Writers on this episode include: Mara Alper:           What Do You Take When You Don't Know Where You're Going? Mara discovers...it isn't a dream but a powerful ceremony. Janice Masur: S halom Uganda:  A Jewish Community on the Equator Janice remembers her childhood community. Daniela Cohen: Hilda and Justice Dan...

Sonya Lea : Bloodlines A Legal Lynching and a Family's Reckoning Sabine Olsen : It Cannot Be Condoned Whiteness and the Legacy of War Host, Ingrid Rose, Music and audio production, Gary Sill The hanging in 1936 of Rainey Bethea, a young black man, for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman was the last public execution in America. Sonya Lea’s family participated in this event in variou...

The Octopus Has Three Hearts In an interview with Ingid Rose, Rachel Rose reads excerpts from her Of Rats and Men. Rachel's stories explore cause and effect, inter-species bonding, and shine a glaring spotlight on the experience of being “other". The protagonists in her stories are individuals who have been harmed in life, who live on the margins of society. Their animal friends are crea...

Karin Konstantynowicz : Roots Borders and Belonging June Blue Spruce : Warning: Whiteness May Be Hazardous to Your Health Host, Carole Harmon, Music and audio production, Gary Sill Karin 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...

Petra Shaena Lambert is interviewed by Ingrid Rose . Petra is a novel, but not a biography of Petra Kelly . Yet, in its pages, fictional and real characters are inspired by and closely follow the lives and events of that time. In 1980's Germany, NATO plans to deploy nuclear missiles which are expected to face off against those of the USSR. The Berlin Wall still stands. World War 3 seems almos...

Lisa Iversen with host Ingrid Rose Using the lens of inherited trauma and family history, Whiteness Is Not an Ancestor offers a hopeful, humanizing path for dismantling whiteness.  For over two decades, family constellations facilitator and therapist Lisa Iversen has been working with groups, including descendants of ancestors who have perpetrated harm or been victimized in circumstances of injust...

Finding Gold in New York In this interview with Ingrid Rose, Rosanna Hille   discusses writing Finding Gold in New York. The excerpts are read by Danish Canadian poet,  Christina Marie Moth. After raising a family, Rosanne embarked on a 20 year career working for an NGO and travelling the world helping people. Now she is returning to her early love of story and writing with a memoir about her rema...

The Absent Prince Una Suselli O’Connell : reads  excerpts from her memoir. Una's family memoir is based on journals and correspondence of several generations of her family. Primarily set in the twentieth century, it focuses the universal theme of war and its devastating effects on family life. One legacy of war is a cultural pattern which has arisen of men being physically absent, or emotiona...

Transpoetic Imaginings The poetry and spoken word improvisation, of Liam ‘Captain’ Snowden and Julian Gunn . Guest host and interviewer: Medwyn McConachy For Transpoetic Imaginings , guest host Medwyn McConachy crafted a lively mix of improvised poetry, conversation, interview and readings to showcase the work of transgender poets Liam, "Captain" Snowdon and Julian Gunn. Both poets, who...

Mothering In This Time Barbara 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 Shoes Host, Carole Harmon Who 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? Ba...

Mushrooms and Memory Monica Meneghetti reads from her memoir, What The Mouth Wants: A Memoir Of Food, Love And Belonging. Interview by Ingrid Rose "My Mom beamed herself to me", Monica writes in Mushrooms and Memory , an excerpt from her memoir which explores the intersections of loss, memory and sensuality. Monica lost her mother at age sixteen, yet her body, alive with sensual memory,...

Cathie Borrie reads re-imagined fairytales from The Brothers Grimm (poetry) Interview by Ingrid Rose Host Carole Harmon Cathie 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...

Julian 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 Harmon There 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. List...

Jacinda, ‘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 Sill A collage of sounds and words rings in...

Kathryn Alexander : On Being More Than One and Less Than One, and The Wave (poetry) Ingrid Rose : The Walk (memoir) Host, Carole Harmon This 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 Write...

Medwyn McConachy : Layering (poetry) Clarissa Green : In Search of My Elderly Young Girl  (memoir) Interview by Ingrid Rose Host, Carole Harmon This 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 sum...

Barbara 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 Rose Carole is a Canadian poet, memoirist and photographer and one of the foun...