P090 Writers Gambit part 01

Gambit, a word from chess, struck our producer, Ingrid Rose, as appropriate to the daring and wide-ranging work created recently by authors from our growing Writers Radio community. This will be a two part series; each program will run for three weeks instead of two while our producers take a summer break: Ingrid is off to France and Carole is getting a new hip. PART 1 Cathy Stonehouse: Dream House, A Poem, Nightwood Editions, 2024, short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award (2024) Cathy writes about this reading: "Dream House emerged after the experience of visiting my mother in a nursing home in the UK, where I grew up, and emptying her small house, in a matter of days...the book begins with an evocation of the journey to the nursing home, and, by association, from life to death. A poem about my mother and one about my grandmother then follow. This long poem is therefore an attempt to both celebrate and question my inheritance from them as daughter, grand-daughter, poet and ultimately mother to my own daughter." Tariq Malik: Blood of Stone, poetry, Caitlin Press, 2024 Tariq has written: "In Blood of Stone Tariq Malik revisits Kotli, the 1,000-year-old city of his formative years in the province of Punjab, Pakistan following partition. Marked by the traumas of dislocation and migration, the city and its inhabitants share secrets and longings, chronicled and imagined by Malik as he gives voice to a personal history that precedes his experiences as an immigrant in Canada." Chad Norman: Parental Forest, poetry, Ace of Swords Publishing. 2024 "In Chad Norman"s poetry, the world is created and re-created with great attention to details and beings involved...where everything is connected and interchangeable - a person, a plant, a bird, a tree. Each poem sounds like a secret recipe for medicine, the healing effect of which the author knows and generously shares with us" Halyna Kruk, fellow poet & professor of European and Ukrainian baroque literature, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Cornelia Hoogland writes: "I"m pulling together a new collection of poetry with the working title Snowing Inside. Does Snowing Inside evoke an image for you? Some of the many poems go back 20 years and I"m choosing the ones that want, need, to talk to each other. I"m creating a conversation. Plus, my life has changed. How is something the book will take up. The thing I"ve noticed about the newest poems, which is that, the closer I am to the terminus of my life, I"m 70, the more vivid are the long connections to my beginnings: a trajectory with a philosophical bent. Here"s a line that might underscore the book. We were taught there"s a heaven above, but not how on earth to live in between." All the books in this Writers Gambit series are available from online retailers and may be ordered from your favourite bookstore. Happy summer reading! Produced by Ingrid Rose, Carole Harmon and Gary Sill, Writers Radio programs reach deeply into the collective mind of our times. We broadcast from Halfmoon Bay, on traditional tribal land of the self-governing shIshalh Nation, on the west coast of Canada.  We express our profound regret for past and present injustices done to all indigenous peoples through colonization, and our gratitude to them for their wisdom teachings and land stewardship which are much needed guidance today and into the future. Go to WritersRadio.ca and listen to the current episode. Writers Radio is a free 24/7 non-commercial internet radio station that presents new and recognized writers reading their own work.