Wax Poetic: Poetry From Canada

Jami Macarty joins Kevin and Pam for a chat about...POETRY

Kevin Spenst and Pamela Bentley host Jacqueline Turner as she prepares for a reading in Vancouver.

Vancouver Poetry Slam Grand Slam Champion, Lindi Nolte is our guest today and she sits down and chats with Kevin and RC about all sorts of things..

Vancouver/Port Moody, Poet, Rob Taylor joins us to talk about some of his current poetry activities. The discussion includes clinical depression, fatherhood, hair cuts and staying at the Al Purdy A Frame.

Legendary poet, songwriter, busker and Outsider Artist, Al Mader aka The Minimalist Jug Band, joins Pam and RC in studio.

Andrew Warner is one wheel of the Tiny Tricycle Poets and he joins us to talk about his growth as a poet and about writing high as Vanilla Thunder.

Pam and RC open up the CD Tickle Trunk to play some fresh audio from Brandon Wint, Moe Clark, and Alessandra Naccarato plus some older material by Gruff the Poet, Sonya Littlejohn, and Tony Brown with Duende.

Wanda Kehewin joins Pam and RC to talk about her upcoming book as well as surviving generational trauma.

Janet joins RC to talk about her residency at the Joy Kogawa House and the resurgence of Indigenous Writing in Canada.

Prior to the Al Purdy A Frame Fundraiser, Danny Peart joins us to talk about Al Purdy and to read some work from both of them.

Henry joins us to promote the final Thursday's Writing Collective chapbook release and reading.

Vancouver Poetry Slam 2017 Team Member, Molly Billows joins Pam for a chat about Verses and hosting a talk back with Andrea Gibson and to share some poems

Bernice Lever joins for a visit to talk about poetry and peace and activism and breaking ground as a female downhill skier.

Candian+Antiguan Dub Poet Legend, Clifton Joseph dropped by to share some perspective on the poetry scene of today and read some poems ahead of his Pandora's Collective reading in West Vancouver.

Fiona and Jane visit us to talk about the anthology they co edited, Love Me True: The Ins and Out and Ups and Downs of Marriage.

Experimental writer Matea Kulić joins co-hosts Pamela Bentley and Kevin Spenst to discuss poetry warm-ups, the different ways in which poetry can be performed, and the poetic value of being a prolific email writer.

Jonina Lynn Kirton joins Pam and RC to talk about the Growing Room Festival as well as her recent trip to Iceland to read poetry and meet long lost relatives.

UBC Professor, Ian Williams joins us to read some poems and talk about tennis and other things

Juliane Okot Bitek joins Pam and Kevin to share some poems and talk about the question "Where are you from?"

Beni Xiao joins Kevin Spents and RC Weslowski to read from Beni's new chapbook "Bad Egg" and to discuss what that means among other things.