Joanna Streetly joins Andrew to talk her new poetry collection, All of Us Hidden⁠. Andrew asks about staying curious in your poetry. It's a great time!

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Joanna Streetly is the author of five books. Her work is published in The Best Canadian Essays 2017 (Tightrope Books, 2017) and Best Canadian Poetry 2024 (Biblioasis, 2024). She is the winner of the 2023 FBCW Literary Contest Poetry Award, has been short-listed for the Van Isle Collective Prize, and The Spectator’s Shiva Naipaul award for outstanding travel writing as well as long-listed for the Canada Writes Creative Non-fiction Prize. She has lived in the unceded territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht for over thirty years and was the inaugural Tofino Poet Laureate from 2018 to 2020. Joanna’s first poetry book, This Dark, was published by Postelsia Press in 2008. Her 2018 memoir, Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast (Caitlin Press, 2018) was a BC Bestseller.

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Andrew French is a queer poet from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published four chapbooks, most recently Buoyhood (Alfred Gustav Press, 2025) and Fists You've Called Home (Pinhole Poetry, forthcoming 2026). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They have hosted this podcast since 2019.