"If you sit and meditate, you're travelling... you don't have to move." So says Tawhida Tanya Evanson, author of a new novel that follows a young woman from her home in Canada to the USA, the Caribbean, Europe, and deep into North Africa. But she travels as much inside herself as she does around the world. stephanie roberts' poems journey from "people believing badly," through city and country, ending up back at belief. This week's guests discuss journeys both physical and psychological, across space and time; they also consider the power of empathy, itself a kind of travel into another person's world.
Invité(es) : Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Poet, Author, Artist stephanie roberts, Poet Rebecca Lloyd, Director, Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore Piedad Saenz, Children's Bookseller, Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore
Presented by the Association of English-language Publishers of Quebec, Writers Unbound is a series highlighting the best of Montreal’s local literary community. Developed in partnership with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, the show pairs two writers in conversation with host Shelley Pomerance, inviting them to reflect on their work and on what inspires them. Each episode also includes thematic book recommendations by local booksellers Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
An arts journalist and host, Shelley Pomerance has been an associate programming director with Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival and was a longtime presence on CBC Radio as a host and arts reporter.
