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Brad Cran talks poetry on Wax Poetic
Brad Cran is the guest poet on the latest radio show instalment of Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO. Reading from his latest collection, Ink on Paper, and talking poetry with RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley, this interview will originally be aired on Wednesday, May 22nd at 2 PM. Tune in at 100.5 FM in Vancouver or live stream at http://www.coopradio.org/content/wax-poetic
Ink on Paper is Brad’s second book of poetry, a compelling collection of political poems that seek to elucidate our relationships with our surroundings as well as those who surround us. Cran, former Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver, examines urban culture and issues of social justice, told with keen awareness and a gritty poetic precision.
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Poet, explorer, English professor, memoirist. These are just some of the roles that Nightwood author Jay Ruzesky comfortably takes on in the average year. Tune in to CBC Radio’s On the Island show on Thursday, May 23rd at 8:20 AM to listen to Jay discuss his new travel memoir, In Antarctica.
The Polar regions are terrifying, deserted and unknown, and the stories others have brought back are tales of struggle and failure. At the end of the earth, I escaped my own petty jealousies, envy, guilt, covetousness and bad temper. In the face of the world at its most majestic I was opened more widely to experience and understood the gift life is to me.
–from In Antarctica
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Poet, English professor and explorer Jay Ruzesky sets out on a BC book tour this week, sharing tales from his new travel memoir, In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage. Don’t miss this chance to explore the wilderness of the Antarctic through Jay’s animated readings and slideshow.
- Saturday, May 25 at 1pm – 10 Old Books in Duncan with readings by Carol Matthews
- Sunday, June 9 at 2pm - Laughing Oyster Bookshop in Courtenay
- Thursday, June 20 at 7:30pm - Mosaic Books in Kelowna
- Wednesday, May 29th at 7PM – “In Amundsen’s Footsteps” lecture at the Maritime Museum of BC, 28 Bastion Square, Victoria. $6 admission, children 12 & under and members FREE
Ruzesky became motivated by the approaching centennial of Amundsen’s South Pole accomplishment to pursue his own quest to Antarctica—not only as a following of Amundsen’s footsteps, but also a pilgrimage to a near-mythical place where heroes were made and died. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin and with a poet’s heart, Ruzesky offers a historically accurate tale while traversing both time and place—paralleling a century of explorers’ dreams from Pole to Pole with stops in Canada, Norway, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Antarctica.
Sandy Pool joins the festivities at the UBC English Graduate Dept’s 2013 Endnotes Creative Night on May 10th at 5 pm. The celebration will feature poetry, fiction & performances, as well as a keynote by Larissa Lai.
There will be food available for purchase and a cash bar running throughout the night.
Location: Penthouse, Thea Koerner House @ UBC (6371 Crescent Road, Vancouver)
Date & Time: Friday, May 10th. Doors open at 5 pm.
Tickets: $5 for the general public.
Sandy will be reading from her latest collection, Undark: An Oratorio, her highly anticipated second book of poems. Undark is equal parts dramatic elegy and poetic inquisition written in seven distinct voices. Drawing from the historical record of the ‘radium women’ and other instances of historical erasure, the work urges us to engage deeply with questions of time and women’s history.
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