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- P105 Speaking Of Family P105
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Episode P105 | Length: 28'
Writers: Barbara Baydala, Colette Gagnon
Host/Producer: Carole Harmon
From January 13, 2025, to February 02, 2025
Writers: Barbara Baydala, Colette Gagnon
Host/Producer: Carole Harmon
From January 13, 2025, to February 02, 2025
Speaking Of Family
Barbara Baydala from Ladner, BC, writes A Family of Poems
I’ve recently been contemplating a collection of writings about my father and have realized through assembling these poems for Writers Radio that I can’t write about my father without placing the two of us amidst our family in all its many guises.
Vancouver poet Colette Gagnon revisits her memoir-based poetry, further exploring the use of form. This suite of five poems centres around the grief and loss of her brother Phil and includes an excerpt from a childhood narrative entitled Lure.
Thematically, these are haunted voices-- of dream, reverie, elegy, foretelling.
I’ve recently been contemplating a collection of writings about my father and have realized through assembling these poems for Writers Radio that I can’t write about my father without placing the two of us amidst our family in all its many guises.
Vancouver poet Colette Gagnon revisits her memoir-based poetry, further exploring the use of form. This suite of five poems centres around the grief and loss of her brother Phil and includes an excerpt from a childhood narrative entitled Lure.
Thematically, these are haunted voices-- of dream, reverie, elegy, foretelling.