P105 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. 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. Writers Radio is proud to be a registered nonprofit society in British Columbia, Canada.