Eh Poetry Podcast - Canadian poems read 3 times, each with a slight difference.

Marion Lougheed [https://www.mledits.com/] is a writer, editor and anthropologist grew up on three continents. She remains hard to pin down. Her work was selected for the 2021 Poem In Your Pocket Day series (League of Canadian Poets) and won the 2021 Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge (Press 53, Prime Number Magazine [https://www.press53.com/prime-number-magazine-index], 2021) She runs Off Topic Publishing [https://offtopicpublishing.com/] and spends a lot of time mulling over words - her own and those of others.  You can follow Marion on Twitter [https://twitter.com/MarionLougheed] and Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/marionstales]. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message] on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast]? Either way, we would like to reward you for checking out these episode notes with a special limited time coupon for 15% off your next purchase of Mary's Brigadeiro [https://www.marysbsweets.com/]'s amazing chocolate, simply use the code "ehpoetrypodcast [https://www.marysbsweets.com/discount/ehpoetrypodcast]" on the checkout page of your order. If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com [jason.e.coombs@gmail.com] Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio [https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-order-99518/] from Pixabay

Courtney Bates-Hardy [https://courtneybateshardy.com/] is the author of House of Mystery [https://www.amazon.ca/House-Mystery-Courtney-Bates-Hardy/dp/1771484039] (2016) and a chapbook titled Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Room, CAROUSEL, Juniper, This Magazine, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. They have also been anthologized in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Best Canadian Poetry 2021 [http://biblioasis.com/shop/new-releases/best-canadian-poetry-2021/] (Biblioasis [http://biblioasis.com/]). She is queer and disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets. She is currently working on her second manuscript of poetry, tentatively titled Anatomical Venus. You can follow Courtney on Twitter [https://twitter.com/PoetCourtney]. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message] on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast]? Either way, we would like to reward you for checking out these episode notes with a special limited time coupon for 15% off your next purchase of Mary's Brigadeiro [https://www.marysbsweets.com/]'s amazing chocolate, simply use the code "ehpoetrypodcast [https://www.marysbsweets.com/discount/ehpoetrypodcast]" on the checkout page of your order. If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com [jason.e.coombs@gmail.com] Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio [https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-order-99518/] from Pixabay

Ronna Bloom [https://ronnabloom.com/] is the author of six books of poetry. She is a registered psychotherapist (CRPO inactive). Ronna developed the first Poet in Residence programme at Mount Sinai Hospital/Sinai Health which ran from 2012-2019. Her Spontaneous Poetry Booths and RX for Poetry have appeared in hospital waiting rooms, bookstores, fundraisers and arts events in Canada, The UK and Italy. Ronna's work has been broadcast on the CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, translated into Bangla and Chinese, and shortlisted for several Canadian literary awards. She has performed with Juno award-winning musician Jayme Stone. In a collaboration with PLANT Architects, her poem “The City” was painted 30 meters long on King Street in Toronto for the summer of 2018. In 2022, her chapbook, Who is your mercy contact? was published by Espresso-Chapbooks [http://espresso-chapbooks.com/current.html]. A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, selected with an introduction by Phil Hall will be published by Wilfred Laurier University Press in 2023. The poem "Is It Safe?" was first published in Literary Review of Canada [https://reviewcanada.ca/] and then again on Best Canadian Poetry 2021 [http://biblioasis.com/shop/forthcoming/best-canadian-poetry-2023/]  by Biblioasis Press [http://biblioasis.com/].  Please feel free to read more about Ronna here [https://ronnabloom.com/bio], and follow her on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ronnabloomroom/?hl=en], Twitter [https://twitter.com/ronnabloom] and/or Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/ronna.bloom.7].  As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message] on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast]? Either way, we would like to reward you for checking out these episode notes with a special limited time coupon for 15% off your next purchase of Mary's Brigadeiro [https://www.marysbsweets.com/]'s amazing chocolate, simply use the code "ehpoetrypodcast [https://www.marysbsweets.com/discount/ehpoetrypodcast]" on the checkout page of your order. If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com [jason.e.coombs@gmail.com] Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio [https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-order-99518/] from Pixabay

Amanda Merpaw [https://amandamerpaw.com/] is a poet, writer, editor, educator, and researcher. Her writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, Grain, Literary Review of Canada, The Maynard, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, and Room. She was shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2022 Poem of the Year Contest. Her first chapbook, Put the Ghosts Down Between Us [http://www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products/put-the-ghosts-down-between-us-by-amanda-merpaw], was released in 2021 by Anstruther Press and her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in Spring 2024. She is currently a contributing editor at Arc Poetry Magazine and a member of the editorial board at Anstruther Press. She is also a PhD student in queer and disability studies at the University of Toronto. You can buy Amanda's chapbook on the Anstruther press website here [http://www.anstrutherpress.com/new-products/put-the-ghosts-down-between-us-by-amanda-merpaw]. As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message] on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast]? Either way, we would like to reward you for checking out these episode notes with a special limited time coupon for 15% off your next purchase of Mary's Brigadeiro [https://www.marysbsweets.com/]'s amazing chocolate, simply use the code "ehpoetrypodcast [https://www.marysbsweets.com/discount/ehpoetrypodcast]" on the checkout page of your order. If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com [jason.e.coombs@gmail.com] Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio [https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-order-99518/] from Pixabay

Kate Cayley [https://www.katecayley.ca/] is a fiction writer, playwright, and poet. She has written a short story collection, How You Were Born [https://www.katecayley.ca/books/#how-you-were-born], two collections of poetry, When This World Comes to an End [https://www.katecayley.ca/books/#when-this-world-comes-to-an-end] and Other Houses [https://www.katecayley.ca/books/#other-houses], a young adult novel, The Hangman in the Mirror, and a number of plays, both traditional and experimental.  She has won the Trillium Book Award, the Mitchell Prize for Poetry, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, an O. Henry Short Story Prize, and a Chalmers Fellowship, and been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the K. M. Hunter Award, and the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize and the CBC Prize in both poetry and fiction. She lives in Toronto with her wife and their three children. Her second short story collection, Householders [http://biblioasis.com/shop/forthcoming/householders/], is published by Biblioasis. Read more about Kate, here [https://www.katecayley.ca/].  This poem, "Attention" was first published in Grain Magazine [https://grainmagazine.ca/], then again in Best Canadian Poetry 2021 [http://biblioasis.com/shop/new-releases/best-canadian-poetry-2021/], Biblioasis Press [http://biblioasis.com/].  Please check out her books, here [https://www.katecayley.ca/books/] and her plays, here [https://www.katecayley.ca/plays/].  As always, we would love to hear from you. Have you tried sending me a message [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast/message] on the Eh Poetry Podcast page yet [https://anchor.fm/ehpoetrypodcast]? Either way, we would like to reward you for checking out these episode notes with a special limited time coupon for 15% off your next purchase of Mary's Brigadeiro [https://www.marysbsweets.com/]'s amazing chocolate, simply use the code "ehpoetrypodcast [https://www.marysbsweets.com/discount/ehpoetrypodcast]" on the checkout page of your order. If you are a poet in Canada and are interested in hearing your poem on Eh Poetry, please feel free to send me an email: jason.e.coombs[at]gmail[dot]com [jason.e.coombs@gmail.com] Eh Poetry Podcast Music by ComaStudio [https://pixabay.com/music/future-bass-order-99518/] from Pixabay