DEATH OF PERSEPHONE: A MURDER

An award-winning Canadian poet reimagines the Greek myth of Persephone in her 2024 release from Caitlin Press.

“Hardboiled detective tropes meet classical myths and free-form poetry. A breathtaking work of imaginative cross-pollination”  
 Will Ferguson, Giller Prize-winning author of 419

“In Death of Persephone, Blomer stalks back alleys, asking urgent questions: Why is the violence against women and girls in myth still haunting us today?...Blomer walks us out of the old story and into this essential retelling”  
Ariel Gordon, poet and author of Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest.

Stylistically varied and always engaging, an excerpt from this long-form poetry book won the Gwendolyn MacEwen poetry prize in 2021.

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Feet of Clay, the title of Graem Castell's epic memoir, refers to the awful behaviors of mankind. This highly enjoyable book [the book, not the title] is filled with pointers to more enlightened living.

At 86, Graem looks back on an adventurous life with humour and very few regrets. As a young child, he fled with his mother and baby brother from the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1942; at 19, he served as an officer with the legendary Gurkhas in the jungles of Malaya; in his mid-twenties, he opened a spectacularly successful restaurant in "Swinging London" with others to follow; and founded a spiritually-based community on the Scottish island of Iona in his early thirties. His adventures had hardly begun.

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Postcards from Katherine is a series of short personal essays that Katherine Govier publishes for free on her website, katherinegovier.com. In this program, she muses on the series and reads from several of her “postcards.“

Canadian author Katherine Govier is known for novels such as The Ghost Brush (The Printmaker’s Daughter in the US), which imagines the life of Katsushika Ōi, the talented daughter of Japanese artist Hokusai. She founded The Shoe Project, a writing workshop that helps immigrant and refugee women tell their stories using shoes as a metaphor. Katherine has been recognized by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for Excellence in Arts and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2019.

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Angela J. Grey

Angela writes about race, equity, and the impact of colonization on all peoples in Canada. She offers a unique perspective on children of the African/Caribbean diaspora who are adopted into white families- a part of Canadian history that is not well documented. Angela is a graduate of the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive (VMI) and a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts - Explore and Create - grant (2022).

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Readings in Three Voices by Medwyn McConachy

"to seek a new life free of social constraints and prejudice based on class or race."

Medwyn McConachy could not have imagined, when she left England in 1966, that she would become a writer and fiber artist, live in cities, the north, and on an island, become a witch, and change her first name from Janet to Medwyn.
Medwyn reads three excerpts from her series of creative non-fiction, memoir-based essays written from the perspectives of friends, family members, and her younger self, Janet.

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Ethel Whitty says, "I write about extraordinary, ordinary women searching for their own truths."  

Ethel Whitty was born and raised on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. Those were years when the depth and warmth of the culture had to be balanced against the island's isolation and the struggles of working-class people. The experiences and community of her childhood significantly influenced her fictional characters and narratives in "The Light a Body Radiates."  

Since moving to Vancouver, Ethel has served as the Director of the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver's downtown eastside for twelve years, where she drew inspiration from the resilience and spirit of resistance she discovered in that community. 

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Barbara Baydala from Ladner, BC, writes A Family of Poems

I’ve recently been contemplating a collection of writings about my father and have realized through assembling these poems for Writers Radio that I can’t write about my father without placing the two of us amidst our family in all its many guises.

Vancouver poet Colette Gagnon revisits her memoir-based poetry, further exploring the use of form. This suite of five poems centres around the grief and loss of her brother Phil and includes an excerpt from a childhood narrative entitled Lure. 

Thematically, these are haunted voices-- of dream, reverie, elegy, foretelling.

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Twice a year, we have a themed call for submissions from our pool of writers. I didn’t know what to expect when I asked for Good Bedtime Stories. Serendipity was at work.

Jeremy Page and Alison Goeller met in an online class on mystery writing and were eventually paired off to critique each other's work. They've kept in touch and occasionally send each other their work. Ingrid Rose and Peter Buckman are cousins.

These authors read for us in this episode:

Jeremy Page: The Ghost of Haversham Halt
Alison Goeller: Murder in Provence
Ingrid Rose: Power of Attraction
Peter Buckman: The Spectre of the Stones

Author, editor, and translator Jeremy Page lives in Lewes, England. He writes both prose and poetry. Jeremy is a former Director of Language Studies at the University of Sussex and the founder of the literary journal The Frogmore Papers.

Alison Goeller is a former professor of American literature, now living in Uzès, a medieval town in France. Her murder mystery series features locksmith Will Sargent and his wife, Poppy, characters inspired by Alison’s locksmith uncle, Gil Deming, and his wife, Phyllis.

Memoirist, lyric prose writer, creative writing teacher, and editor Ingrid Rose lives in Vancouver. She is a co-producer of Writers Radio.

English author Peter Buckman has written books, plays, and scripts for film, television, and radio. His long career in publishing includes founding Ampersand Agency, a UK-based literary agency representing commercial and literary fiction and non-fiction authors.

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The loneliness of narrative, the loneliness of seeking truth, is our human condition. It is our task as writers. Betsy Warland

Betsy’s popular inquiry into the act of writing, Breathing the Page, Reading the Act of Writing is in its second edition with an additional ten essays. Betsy reads one of these essays: Narrative Position, for this program.

In our conversation, Betsy elaborates on her personal quest to understand and articulate her unique narrative position, "person of between" in their own life and work.

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Re-imagining a classic fairy tale with puppeteer, puppet builder, performer, director and filmmaker Kris Fleerackers.

Bored and tired of doing chores, little Lotte Grimm sneaks a peek at a ‘broken’ fairy tale her older brothers have collected. To fix it, she finds a way to enter the story and save its heroine, but not everything goes as planned…

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