Penny Allport is a poet, wordsmith, painter, teacher and mentor living in Victoria, Canada. As a life-cycle celebrant, she co-creates ceremonies and rituals with individuals, couples and groups, to weave words which serve and express the sometimes un-expressible mysteries of love, life and loss.

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I have made of myself into a long river of words, a plain flatlands meander of words looping back, looping ahead.
from Encrypted by Arleen Paré

Prolific, award-winning Canadian poet Arleen Paré joins Ingrid Rose in conversation about her books: Paper Trail (2007), Leaving Noe (2011), Lake of Two Mountains (2014), He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car (2015), The Girls with Stone Faces (2017), Earle Street (2020), First (2021), Last (2022, Chapbook), Time Out of Time (2022), Don’t Tell: Family Secrets (2022, co-edited with Donna McCart Sharkey), Absence of Wings (2024), Encrypted (2025).

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POEMS: Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale

There is a connection between the work of Canadian poets Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale. Both women have been writing poetry for most of their lives, using it as a means to understand and express their personal experiences, covering life's challenges and their responses to the natural world, day by day. Poetry is their chosen tool for transformation.

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Women Who Write is the title chosen by a group of eight women for their writing group, which formed after they met in a Simon Fraser University continuing studies creative writing class in Vancouver, facilitated by Ingrid Rose. This gathering occurred over ten years ago. The eight of them, with ages ranging from their sixties to early nineties, continued to meet monthly and recently published a chapbook of their poems and stories. Recording their work for this program, The Pace of Grace, Women Who Write also serves as an opportunity to honour the memory of one of the eight poets, Donna Nanson, whose piece is read by her husband, Derrick.

Host / Producer: Ingrid Rose, Music / Producer: J. Gary Sill

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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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