• Pasha Malla on Good Sentences and Catriona Wright and Matthew Tierney on Children in Poetry
    Aug 21 2024

    Pasha Malla talks about his favourite sentences and what makes them good and Catriona Wright and Matthew Tierney discuss children in their poetry.

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    26 mins
  • Kate Black and Shawn Micallef talk about Malls and If They Still Matter
    Jun 26 2024

    Shawn Micallef, author of the newly updated Stroll, and Kate Black, author of Big Mall: Shopping for Meaning, talk about malls: mall culture, urbanism, and how the play a part of the national landscape.

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    24 mins
  • Ep. 11: Tamara Faith Berger Talks with Andrea Werhun & Matthew Gwathmey Reads Nasser Hussain
    Mar 12 2024

    Tamara Faith Berger, author of Yara, interviews writer and performer Andrea Werhun.

    Matthew Gwathmey, author of Tumbling for Amateurs, reads and discusses “If I Had to Say” from Love Language by Nasser Hussain.

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    31 mins
  • Episode10 with Martha Baillie, Moez Surani, & Indie Bookseller RecommendBooks for the Holidays
    Dec 22 2023

    Martha Baillie, author of There is no Blue, talks with Moez Surani about poetry and grief in their work. And Canadian independent booksellers give us their favourite books to gift this season!

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    25 mins
  • Episode 9 with Meghan Kemp-Gee, Aaron Tucker and Alicia Fletcher
    Jul 31 2023

    Meghan Kemp-Gee reads from After Beowulf by Nicole Markotic, and Aaron Tucker talks with film critic Alicia Fletcher about the significance of the classic wester The Searchers in his new novel, Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys.

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    31 mins
  • Episode 8 with David O’Meara, Matt Cahill, and Michael Winkler
    Apr 25 2023

    We talk with recent Archibald Lampman and Ottawa Book Award winner David O'Meara about "Blue Filter" by Sheryda Warrener, author Matt Cahill about how he balances work and writing, and Michael Winkler about his debut "exploded nonfiction novel," Grimmish.

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    28 mins
  • Episode 7 with André Alexis and Geoffrey Morrison
    Mar 23 2023

    First-time novelist Geoffrey Morrison talks with his first-time editor André Alexis (author of Fifteen Dogs and the Quincunx series) about editing his debut novel, Falling Hour. We discuss the writer-editor relationship and what it's like to work with someone else's writing.

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    20 mins
  • Episode 6 w/ Suzette Mayr, Bookseller Holiday Tips, Matthew James Weigel & Derek Beaulieu
    Dec 21 2022

    Happy Holidays edition!

    Suzette Mayr talks about winning the Giller Prize, booksellers give Holiday book buying recommendations, and Matthew James Weigel and Derek Beaulieu talk about why visual poetry isn't that difficult.

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    36 mins