Old Poems in a New Light
Saison 2 / Épisode 6
Culture
Writers Unbound
To and from the Middle East
This week, To and from the Middle East. In the 1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War, Dimitri Nasrallah's family left Beirut and emigrated to Canada.
Identity and Belonging
This week, we meets Mariam Pal, whose memoir, Ballet Is Not for Muslim Girls, deals with her Pakistani-Canadian identity, and Anita Anand, whose novel, A Convergence of Solitude.
Making Choices, Taking Chances
This week, we meets Tara McGowan-Ross, whose memoir, Nothing Will Be Different, tackles her struggles with alcohol, monogamy, and depression, while Baharan Baniahmadi’s Prophetess...
Old Poems in a New Light
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...
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.
