Wax Poetic: Poetry From Canada

Poet Activist, Stephen Collis is our guest and joins us to talk about poetry and protest in particular against the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Former Halifax Poet Laureate, Shauntay Grant joins us on the show to talk about their new CD and traveling to Africa and food.

Christine Leclerc joins us to discuss and read from her new chapbook and direct action activism against the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Pam is away in New Mexico so RC opens up the tickle trunk to play some spoken word tracks by El Jones, Al Mader, Duende and more.

Heart of the City Poetry Slam Champion Rockin' Robin wakes up early to join us in studio to perform some poems and rail against the 1%.

Fabienne Calvert Filteau joins us in studio to read poems about nature including her thoughts on bears and living in Hazelton.

In town for the Vancouver Writer's Festival, Anne Kennedy joins us from New Zealand via Banff and Calgary.

While RC is at CFSW, Elaine Woo joins Pamela Bentley in studio.

RC and Pam play tracks chosen with the idea of Media Democracy in mind. Included are pieces by Alex Jacobs, Chris Masson, Chris Chandler, and Kris Northey..

Shayne joins us to talk about CFSW 2014 and to read some poems.

We play a selection of recordings by poets from across the country reading poems dedicated to the life and spirit of Zaccheus Jackson Nyce.

George Stanley joins us to read from his new book, an anthology of his collected works and to chat about poetry.

Kelsey and Julia stop by to talk about their upcoming Fringe Festival play, read some excerpts from it and talk about the process of putting the show together.

Sebastien returns from YouthCanSlam with two championships to his name and he shares some poems and talks about his tour with us.

Meharoona Ghani creator of Pop Up Poets joins us in studio.

Jacks McNamara drops by to drop some knowledge on us around gender and identity and to promote their appearance at the annual Queer Poetry Slam

Relatively new to the Vancouver Poetry scene after many years writing screenplays, Scott Ramsay joins the Wax Poetic crew today.

He has opened for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as well as They Might Be Giants. He's a multiple time member of the Vancouver Poetry Slam Team. He's thoughtful and acerbic and Al Mader was the guest on July 2nd.

Christopher Levinson joins to share some poems and talk about his new book project with collaborators Peter Braun and Sigfrid Albert

Poet Hannah Johson joins us in studio to discuss her recent poetic career, read some poems and talk growing up in BC.