Old Poems in a New Light
Saison 2 / Épisode 6
Culture
Writers Unbound
Childhood and growing up
Join us this week when authors Greg Santos and Shanice Nicole talk about the challenges of childhood. We also welcome Anna Leventhal, who tells us about AELAQ's involvement in this project.
Change and Transformation
This week's guests discuss two crucial and under-told moments in Montreal's history. A new nonfiction book brings forward diverse perspectives on the Sir George Williams Affair.
Isolation and community
A new anthology of nonfiction brings the COVID-19 self-isolation experiences of 105 writers from all over Quebec into one powerful volume.
Health and Healthcare
This week's guests, Richard King and Samir Shaheen-Hussain, discuss the power of books to change how we think about health, healthcare, and how the system serves most vulnerable among us.
À propos de l’épisode
This week, Old Poems in a New Light, with poets Jason Camlot and Gillian Sze. Jason finds inspiration in Victorian prose, limericks, Leonard Cohen, and a couple of guinea pigs, while Gillian’s work reproduces, in English, the spaces and silences of 8th-century Chinese verse. We’ll also have recommendations of poetry for adults and children from Drawn & Quarterly,the Mile End bookstore.
