Paul Vermeersch is a poet, multimedia artist, creative writing professor, and literary editor. He is the author of several poetry collections, including The Reinvention of the Human Hand, a finalist for the 2011 Trillium Book Award, and most recently, Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. 

He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph for which he received the Governor General's Gold Medal. He teaches in the Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing & Publishing program at Sheridan College where he is the editor-in-chief of The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing. He is also the senior editor of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers where he created the poetry and fiction imprint Buckrider Books. He lives in Toronto.

You can follow Paul on Twitter here. 

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This excerpt was taken from the Wolsak & Wynn's author page: 

James Lindsay has been a bookseller for more than a decade. He is also co-owner of Pleasence Records in Toronto, a record label specializing in post-punk, odd-pop and avant-garde sound pieces.

You can also follow James Lindsay's Twitter account here. 

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This excerpt was taken from the Coach House Books author page for David O'Meara: 

David O’Meara is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently A Pretty Sight (Coach House Books, 2013). He is the Director of the Plan 99 Reading Series, and was the founding Artistic Director for VERSeFest (Canada’s International Poetry Festival). A past winner of the Archibald Lampman Prize and the Ottawa Book Award, David was recently the Poet-in-Residence for Arc Poetry Magazine and served as a faculty member at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He lives in Ottawa, Canada where he tends bar.

You can also follow David O'Meara on Twitter here. 

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Catherine Graham's book Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric *Finalist for the Trillium Book Award* *Finalist for the Toronto Book Awards* now out with Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books.

The Most Cunning Heart (novel), Spring 2022, Palimpsest Press.

Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected appears Spring 2023, Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books.

Graham now lives and writes in Toronto, where she teaches creative writing, mentors privately, leads the Toronto International Festival of Authors Book Club, is an interviewer for Humber School of Creative & Performing Arts / Toronto International Festival of Authors By the Lake Book Club and the Writers’ Trust of Canada The Re-Read. She is also an Editor for Watch Your Head and the anthology Watch Your Head: Responding to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books). Graham, along with Jessica Outram, hosts The Hummingbird Podcast: Conversation & Inspiration.

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Welcome to Eh Poetry Podcast's first episode. 

In today's episode, I read "In the Boxcar of Surrey around Guildford Castle." by Kevin Spenst. Kevin is a Pushcart Poetry nominee, is the author of Ignite, Jabbering with Bing Bong, and Hearts Amok: a Memoir in Verse (all with Anvil Press), and over a dozen chapbooks including Surrey Sonnets (JackPine Press), Upend (Frog Hollow Press) and a holm with the Alfred Gustav Press coming out at the end of 2022. In 2019, he was writer-in-residence at the Joy Kogawa House. His work has won the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry, been nominated for both the Alfred G. Bailey Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and has appeared in dozens of publications including Event, the Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, CV2, the Rusty Toque, Lemon Hound, Poetry is Dead, and the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds. He co-organizes the Dead Poets Reading Series, writes a chapbook column in subTerrain magazine, is an occasional co-host with RC Weslowski on Wax Poetic on Co-op Radio, teaches Creative Writing at Vancouver Community College and is the 2022 Poetry Mentor at SFU’s Writers Studio. He lives in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory.

Please take a minute or two to read more about Kevin Spenst by visiting his website here or follow his social media accounts below:

INSTAGRAM: kevin_spenst

TWITTER: @kevinspenst

His book Hearts Amok: A Memoir In Verse, published by Anvil Press can be found at your local bookstore. If they don't have it, I'm sure they would be very happy to order it! :)  

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A space where you can listen to Canadian poetry like you listen to your favourite songs, on repeat!



Being a relatively new poet trying to do everything I can to improve my craft I started to listen to poem-a-day podcasts in the car, at home and on my walks. The only thing I find frustrating about most poetry podcasts is that the poem is read once and when I want to I have to keep rewinding to listen to it over and over. I mean, come on, who gets everything from listening to a poem one time? :)



Whether you are a writer, obsessed with poetry, an enthusiastic reader or curious about poetry, this podcast is for you. Welcome!

Find out what this little spot on the internet is all about:

"My name is Jason Coombs, welcome to EH Poetry Podcast - a place to listen to poetry, a couple of quick thoughts on what makes the poem special, a technique or two that stands out, and a closer reading of my favourite hot spot within the poem

I’ll be reading poetry from local poets (that is to say, the Greater Toronto Area), Canadian Poets, some of my own poetry and I am planning on taking some of my favourite music lyrics and reading them as if they were meant to be read as poetry - just for the fun of hearing the difference.

Someone once told me that the best way to truly learn something is to teach it to someone else. I looked that up and discovered that the saying comes from an old Latin principle: Docendo discimus, which means “by teaching, we learn."

With that in mind, I hope you join me on an exploration of the vast world of verse so we can learn together.

Beyond listening, I hope you comment as well, or send me a voice message through my Anchor.fm page at anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast

Feel free to subscribe so you get the latest episodes when they are released - which I am hoping to do on a weekly basis in the beginning.

I appreciate the time you’ve shared with me. Hope to hear from you soon!"

Hey there, 

Please enjoy this recording of my poem "Zeugma", published on April 3rd by Sledgehammer Literary Journal. I would love to hear what you think, about the poem, about the recording, or any other of my recordings or poems so please feel free to comment. 

Have a great listen!

You can read this poem here