Amanda Jernigan is the author of two books of poetry — Groundwork (Biblioasis, 2011) and All the Daylight Hours (Cormorant Books, 2013) — and of the monograph Living in the Orchard: The Poetry of Peter Sanger (Frog Hollow Press, 2014). She edited The Essential Richard Outram (Porcupine's Quill, 2011), and is currently at work on a critical edition of Outram's collected poems. In a 2013 article in the British literary journal PN Review, critic Evan Jones called Amanda Jernigan "the last of the mythopoets." Playwright Sean Dixon has been called ‘the true inheritor of [Gwendolyn] MacEwen's mythopoetic legacy.’ This talk puts the works of these writers in conversation, before a performance of Dixon' A God in Need of Help.

Hosted by Erin Brubacher

Recorded by Andy Trithhardt