Wax Poetic: Poetry From Canada

Just prior to their reading at Twisted Poets, Cornelia Hoogland joined Pam Bentley and Kevin Spenst to talk about the Trailer Park Elegies.

Pam, Kevin and RC are all in studio to share some audio out of the CD Tickle Trunk including Bill Bissett, Ronnie Dean Harris, Janet Marie Rogers, Joanne Arnott and the Word Burglars

Burnaby Writer's Society President, Lara Varesi joins us to recap 2017, share some poems and talk about what's coming up of the Society in 2018.

Nationally known spoken word poet, Johnny MacRae joins to talk about his CD Mouth Music and to promote his feature at UBC Slam.

2017 Vancouver Youth Poetry Slam Grand Slam Champion, Emma Field is our guest to talk about persona poems and trickster energy ahead of her feature at the youth poetry slam.

Isaac Bond freshly arrived from Saskatoon, now living in Vancouver, shares his spoken word poetry, and chats with RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley about astronomy, hip-hop, beats, hosting, and doing poetry in schools.

Ellie Sawatzky joins co-hosts Pamela Bentley and RC Weslowski to share poems, talk about being an artist in Vancouver, her Frog Hollow Press shortlisted chapbook "Rhinocerotic" coming out in 2018, publishing, rejection, persistence, rhinos, Burning Man, nannying, and her daily blog of writing prompts, Impromptu, on her website elliesawatsky.com.

Nasra Adem, former Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton, Alberta joins co-hosts RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley. Nasra shares some poems and talks with them about rain, sky, workshops, poet laureates, Canada 150, and questioning our own assumptions, roles, and perspectives.

Marcela Huerta visits with RC about her new book Tropico ahead of the book launch which took place Nov 23rd at The Paperhound Books

Mallory Tater and Curtis LeBlanc​, founders of the new chapbook press Rahila's Ghost Press​ tell us about their first crop of books launching November 22. Curtis also reads poems from his own books while Mallory shares some poems from her upcoming This Will Be Good​. Kevin Spenst and Pamela Bentley co-hosting.

Aislinn Hunter joins hosts Kevin Spenst and Pam Bentley to read poems from her book Linger, Still, and chat about residencies, taxidermy, animal memes,Thing theory, and a diversity research student project at Kwantlen.

Raw Speakhers, a women's hip-hop freestyle collective, who are performing as part of the Heart of the City Festival, join hosts RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley, to share their voices, rhymes and rhythms, and talk about their process, experiences and the forming of the collective.

Yvonne Blomer, current Victoria Poet Laureate and editor of the anthology Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, joins Pam Bentley and Kevin Spenst to talk about the book, the process, its title, nature and ecological poetry. She reads poems from Refugium by Jan Zwicky, John Barton, Joe Denham, Misuzu Kaneko, and Brian Campbell.

UK poetry slam champion, Leyla Josephine from Glasgow joins RC and Pam in studio prior to her feature in Victoria to talk about many things, including what to do when feeling "Hopeless."

Ayanda Lyric Mgoduka joins RC and Pam to share her poetry and talk about politics, racism, queens, reconciliation, and love.

Poet, rapper, boxer (with beats and without), Dana ID Matthews joins RC to reveal some secrets about his life through poetry.

Pam is away so RC opens the CD Tickle Trunk for some poems by Jive Poetic and Sheri-D Wilson plus we listen to some Hollerin.

Meharoona Ghani joins Kevin Spenst and Pam Bentley to talk about her poems in the collection, The Muslimah Who Fell To Earth, as well as the Art of Listening, TedxEast Van, and more.

Jaye Simpson joins us to share some poems and talk about using poetry to address intergenerational trauma and the power of language and words.

Kevin Gilday was in town for the Vancouver Fringe Festival and joined us to share some poems and promote his Fringe show "Gigantic Lying Mouth".