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Ingrid Rose
P121
A Woman Re-members The Body
2025.12.29

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A Memoir Through Essays and Other Stories
Ingrid Rose

The body is Ingrid Rose's touchstone as she explores her life through stories and personal essays:

• Her relationship with her twin brother, Tim
• Her New York adventures as a young woman, waitressing in a jazz club and performing with Warm Rain, a spoken word and music ensemble
• Her spiritual and intellectual transformation from a young communist to a spiritual seeker
• Discovering her body as a source and interpreter of consciousness.

From her childhood in London, England, to living in intentional communities in the Cotswolds and France, Ingrid arrived in Vancouver, Canada, in 1996. She is a storyteller, writing mentor, and author who explores body/mind/spirit.

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Una Suseli O'Connell
P120
They Lived Ever After
2025.11.24

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Stories and true accounts about the resilience of the human spirit, the importance of fairy tales, and creativity as a wellspring in troubling times.

Una Suseli O'Connell: They Lived Ever After
Medwyn McConachy: Vasilysa and the Coloured Stones
Graem Castell: By Way of Beachy Head
Mohamad Kebbewar: Fragmented

From the Anthology, Off the Map: Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues:
Kate Bird: Shelter
Venge Dixon: Linus

Jojo Donovan, Wendy Gorchinsky, Susan Cerulean, Juliana Borrero Echeverry
The Writers
P119
Dreams Before Extinction 3 of 3
2025.11.03

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JoJo Donovan: Dispatches from the Collapse of Time, Nora Jamieson: I Am Nothing Without My Dead, Wendy Gorchinsky Lambo: Making Love With a Three Billion Year Old Woman, Susan Cerulean: Bear Requiem, Juliana Borrero Echeverry: Landscapes at the End of the World

Deena Metzger, Miriam Greenspan, Sharon Rodgers Simone, Cynthia Travis, Nancy Windheart
The Writers
P118
Dreams Before Extinction 2 of 3
2025.10.13

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Deena Metzger Intro: The Literature of Restoration, Dreaming Another Language; She Will not Kill, Miriam Greenspan Seeing in the Dark, Sharon Rodgers Simone Fired Anew, Cynthia Travis Listen With Your Feet, Nancy Windheart Aspen Ways of Knowing

The Editors
Lise Weil, Gillian Goslinga, Kristin Flyntz, and Anne Bergeron
P117
Dreams Before Extinction 1 of 3
2025.09.22

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Part 1 of a 3-part series.

Edited from the first ten years of the online literary journal, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, this anthology is a heartfelt and inspiring collection of written and visual works inspired by dreams, visions, and activism, all aimed at healing our fractured relationship with the earth.

Sixty-seven authors from six countries contributed to this anthology of 79 pieces across 572 pages, organized into nine sections.

Sonya Lea
P116
American Bloodlines
2025.09.01

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American Bloodlines, Reckoning with Lynch Culture combines memoir with reportage and cultural criticism to interrogate and complicate the traditional narrative about how lynch culture is created in families, communities and institutions.

Summer 1936, Owensboro Kentucky.
In just four and a half minutes, an all white, all male jury convicts Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, of the rape and murder of an elderly white woman.
Bethea is hanged near the banks of the Ohio River in the last documented public execution in America.
Bethea's story comes to author Sonya Lea, who was born in Owensboro, through her family. She reckons with its truths and the broader implications of systemic racism, not just in the past, but in today's culture, politics and justice systems.

Penny Allport
P115
Bringing Death Home
2025.08.11

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Penny Allport is a poet, wordsmith, painter, teacher and mentor living in Victoria, Canada. As a life-cycle celebrant, she co-creates ceremonies and rituals with individuals, couples and groups, to weave words which serve and express the sometimes un-expressible mysteries of love, life and loss.

Arleen Paré
P114
Writing Tips with Arleen Paré
2025.07.21

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Arleen Paré, one of Canada's most prolific and prestigious poets joins Ingrid Rose to discuss the act and art of writing.

I have made of myself a long river of words, a plain flatlands meander of words looping back, looping ahead. The Old Testament posits the word, words being the main way we open and close. Take me away. Bring me back. Night comes and the sky stops in its heedless rotation. If you have made of yourself a door in time, can you make it to open even halfway?

Encrypted by Arleen Paré

Prolific, award-winning Canadian poet Arleen Paré joins Ingrid Rose in a conversation about her books:

Paper Trail 2007, Leaving Noe 2011, Lake of Two Mountains 2014, He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car 2015, The Girls with Stone Faces 2017, Earle Street 2020, First 2021, Last 2022 (Chapbook), Time Out of Time 2022, Don’t Tell: Family Secrets 2022 (co-edited with Donna McCart Sharkey), Absence of Wings 2024, Encrypted 2025

Jacinda Oldale and Kelsey Andrews
P113
Poems
2025.06.20

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POEMS: Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale

There is a connection between the work of Canadian poets Kelsey Andrews and Jacinda Oldale. Both women have been writing poetry for most of their lives, using it to understand and express their personal experiences, including life's challenges and their responses to the natural world, day by day. Poetry is their chosen tool for transformation.

Donna Nanson, Tessie Dichupa, Vivienne Megas, Marion Yaremi, Paula Ford, Leslee Silverman, Nora Grove, Brenda McNeil
P112
The Pace of Grace
2025.06.09

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Women Who Write is the name chosen by a group of eight women for their writing group, which formed after they met in a Simon Fraser University continuing studies creative writing class in Vancouver, facilitated by Ingrid Rose. The gathering occurred over ten years ago. The eight of them, with ages ranging from their sixties to early nineties, continued to meet monthly and recently published a chapbook of their poems and stories.

Recording their work for this program, The Pace of Grace, Women Who Write also serves as an opportunity to honour the memory of one of the eight poets, Donna Nanson, whose piece is read by her husband, Derrick.

Host / Producer: Ingrid Rose, Music / Producer: J. Gary Sill

Yvonne Blomer
P111
Death of Persephone
2025.05.19

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An award-winning Canadian poet reimagines the Greek myth of Persephone in her 2024 release from Caitlin Press.

“Hardboiled detective tropes meet classical myths and free-form poetry. A breathtaking work of imaginative cross-pollination.”
Will Ferguson, Giller Prize-winning author of 419.

“In Death of Persephone, Blomer stalks back alleys, asking urgent questions: Why is the violence against women and girls in myth still haunting us today?... Blomer walks us out of the old story and into this essential retelling.”
Ariel Gordon, poet and author of Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest.

Stylistically varied and engaging, an excerpt from this long-form poetry book won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize in 2021.

Graem Castell
P110
Feet of Clay
2025.04.28

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Graem Castell

Feet of Clay, the title of Graem Castell's epic memoir, refers to mankind's awful behaviour. This highly enjoyable book [the book, not the title] is filled with pointers to more enlightened living.

At 86, Graem looks back on an adventurous life with humour and very few regrets. As a young child, he fled with his mother and baby brother from the Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1942; at 19, he served as an officer with the legendary Gurkhas in the jungles of Malaya; in his mid-twenties, he opened a spectacularly successful restaurant in "Swinging London" with others to follow; and in his early thirties, he founded a spiritually based community on the Scottish island of Iona. His adventures had hardly begun.

Katherine Govier
P109
Postcards From Katherine
2025.04.07

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Postcards from Katherine is a series of short personal essays that Katherine Govier publishes for free on her website, katherinegovier.com. In this program, she muses on the series and reads from several of her “postcards.”

Canadian author Katherine Govier is known for novels such as The Ghost Brush (The Printmaker’s Daughter in the US), which imagines the life of Katsushika Ōi, the talented daughter of Japanese artist Hokusai. She founded The Shoe Project, a writing workshop that helps immigrant and refugee women tell their stories through the metaphor of shoes. Katherine has been recognized by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for Excellence in the Arts and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2019.

Angela J. Grey
P108
A Clean House
2025.03.17

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Angela is a Vancouver Manuscript Intensive (VMI) graduate and a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create grant (2022).

She writes about race, equity, and the impact of colonization on all peoples in Canada. She offers a unique perspective on children of the African/Caribbean diaspora who are adopted into white families, a part of Canadian history that is not well documented

Medwyn McConachy
P107
She's Leaving Home
2025.02.24

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"to seek a new life free of social constraints and prejudice based on class or race."

Medwyn McConachy could not have imagined, when she left England in 1966, that she would become a writer and fibre artist, live in cities in the north and on an island, become a witch, and change her first name from Janet to Medwyn.

Medwyn reads three excerpts from her series of creative non-fiction, memoir-based essays written from the perspectives of friends, family members, and her younger self, Janet.

Ethel Whitty
P106
Radient Storyteller
2025.02.03

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"to seek a new life free of social constraints and prejudice based on class or race."

Medwyn McConachy could not have imagined, when she left England in 1966, that she would become a writer and fibre artist, live in cities in the north and on an island, become a witch, and change her first name from Janet to Medwyn.

Medwyn reads three excerpts from her series of creative non-fiction, memoir-based essays written from the perspectives of friends, family members, and her younger self, Janet.

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