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  • e117 – deeper into the forest (in memoriam Robin Mathews)

    e117 – deeper into the forest (in memoriam Robin Mathews)

    my sounding of a poem by Robin Mathews about moving more deeply into the forest (in memoriam Robin Mathews : November 1, 1931 – April 25, 2023)

  • e88 robin mathews – on radical listening & political poetry

    ‘I don’t know how many people in Canada who would immediately understand what radical listening is, because it would occur to me that the listener would have to be sensitized beforehand in order to listen radically, so that the radical listening is a secondary function of becoming radicalized in a political matter or political level.…

  • e72 richard wagamese’s what comes from spirit

    ‘It’s 2.29am on Sunday October 17th, 2021. I can hear the rumble of the city in the background, but the rain has stopped for a few minutes. Yesterday, I walked by the People’s Coop Bookstore on Commercial Avenue in Vancouver and thought I saw a new book by Richard Wagamese in the corner of my…

  • e70 one step at a time

    ‘We make choices by not making choices And we live with unbearable consequences We hear alarm bells, but do not respond We cling to uncertainty like a sad song We act as if unaware and innocent We are cognitively dissonant’ … * e70 one step at a time is a monologue that I recorded on…

  • e67 wanna be an ally

    ‘I’ve been thinking about decolonization and reconciliation and other issues in our relations with indigenous communities. I was reading the ‘wanna be an ally’ poem the other day that really affected me positively but also emotionally and I wanted to read it to you.’ * e67 wanna be an ally is a reading of the…