Eh Poetry Podcast - Canadian poems read 3 times, each with a slight difference. – Details, episodes & analysis

Marion Lougheed is a writer, editor and anthropologist grew up on three continents. She remains hard to pin down. Her work was selected for the 2021 Poem In Your Pocket Day series (League of Canadian Poets) and won the 2021 Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge (Press 53, Prime Number Magazine, 2021) She runs Off Topic Publishing and spends a lot of time mulling over words - her own and those of others. 

You can follow Marion on Twitter and Facebook.

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If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com

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Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of House of Mystery (2016) and a chapbook titled Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Room, CAROUSEL, Juniper, This Magazine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. They have also been anthologized in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (Biblioasis). She is queer and disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets. She is currently working on her second manuscript of poetry, tentatively titled Anatomical Venus.

You can follow Courtney on Twitter.

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Richard-Yves Sitoski is a songwriter, performance poet, and the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, Ontario. He is also the Artistic Director of the Words Aloud festival. He is part of the performance poetry duo O P E N Sound with croc E moses, makes politically charged sound poetry with the Noises ON Collective, and explores the history of Grey County in story, song, and verse with the Métissage Collective. He regularly collaborates with Grey Bruce Pride, SHEATRE and the M'Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre. Read more about Rico, here. 

You can read more of Rico's poems, here, see and hear him perform his poetry here, and follow his social media on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. 

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Phillip Crymble is a physically disabled poet from Belfast now living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead and a PhD candidate at UNB, he received his MFA from the University of Michigan and has new poems forthcoming The Walrus, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. Not Even Laughter, his first book-length collection, was a finalist for both the J.M. Abraham Prize and the New Brunswick Book Award. In 2016 he won The Puritan’s annual Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. In 2017 he was voted the Reader’s Choice Award winner in Arc Poetry’s poem of the Year contest.

You can follow Phillip on Twitter, here. 

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Michael Penny has published five books, most recently Outside, Inside (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.) He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and  came to Edmonton with his family in 1967. His 2011 book, Particles, was short-listed for the Writers Guild of Alberta Stefansson Award. His writing has appeared in dozen of literary periodicals and anthologies. He lives on Bowen Island.

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Madeline Bassnett is a poet, teacher, and researcher. She is the author of the poetry collection Under the Gamma Camera (Gaspereau 2019), which was longlisted for the RCLAS Annual Fred Cogswell Award in 2020. She is also the author of two chapbooks: Pilgrimage (Baseline 2016) and Elegies (Frog Hollow 2011). She lives on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton Nations, where she teaches English and Creative Writing at Western University. Twitter: @m_bassnett

Here is a link to Under the Gamma Camera (Gaspereau 2019).

Here are a couple more places you can read and listen to more of Madeline's poetry: 

Watch Your Head

AFTER AUDUBON - A video collaboration originally presented June 1st 2022 by Madeline Bassnett and Jenny Berkel

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Daniel G Scott, has just released Travels with Athóma (Aeolus House) and has previously published Aftertime (2019) and Voicing Suicide (2020), an anthology of suicide poems he edited, as well as [klee-shays] undone, volume one (2020). His other publications include four books of poetry, three chapbooks and individual poems in journals, anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications. In 1984, he won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick. He is past Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry and producer for Poets Caravan, and can say poetry has saved his life more than once.

Here is the Poet's Caravan link I mentioned, a very cool project by Planet Earth Poetry that highlights the rich cultural landscape of Southern Vancouver Island. Each poet is represented by a pin on Google Earth of a spot meaningful to them – somewhere they like to do their writing or find particularly inspiring.

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poet, mother, grandmother, gardener, dancer, hiker, activist. A former professor of environmental studies at the University of Waterloo, she has worked with colleagues in Indonesia, India and Northern Canada and with students from many places around the world. She walked the Camino Santiago in 2018 and plans to walk the Bruce Trail which passes close to her home, from start to finish in 2022. The pandemic months have been made much more bearable by her ongoing collaboration with Passionate Heart Dance (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1706827082798048/). Read more...

You can read more of Susan's poetry here. 

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Sean McDermott is an Irish poet and songwriter living in Toronto, ON.  

On his first book of poetry I Was Just Thinking: 

An important collection by a superb talent reflecting the poet's world during the lockdown/Pandemic 

"During my solitude, I have taken a deep dive into personal history and common emotion. The poems deal with my thoughts on relationships, alcoholism, illness, music and escapism into memories and fantasy. The work is wrapped in a protective layer of reality and optimism....

This is Sean's first collection of poems, each one surrounding a single realization of a visual truth in action. The poems cascade outward in reckless examination of a moment, a memory, and then retreat toward resolution."

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Simon Constam is a poet and an aphorist. His poems have been published in various magazines, among them The Jewish Literary Journal, Poetica, and the Dark Poetry Club. He has published a new, original aphorism under the moniker Daily Ferocity on Instagram, daily for almost three years.

Characterized by the admission of doubt in God’s desire for a better world, and willing to see Jewish tradition as indispensable, Brought Down struggles with daily life as a firm believer and continuing pride in Jewish identity. Here is a link to purchase the book. 

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