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This week on the Richard Crouse Show we\u2019ll meet Rik Emmett. The musician, professor, writer and sometime cartoonist is in three Canadian \u201cHalls\u201d and two \u201cWalks of Fame.\u201d After 12 platinum LPs in his years as one third of the rock band Triumph, he went on to produce 20 indie projects, from rock and blues to jazz, folk, and classical. These days Emmett is trying something new. He\u2019s reinventing himself as a poet. \u201cReinvention,\u201d his new book of poetry, is available now wherever fine books are sold. It\u2019s the project that followed on the heels of his retiring from touring and the life of a college educator in early 2019. In this book he makes sense of a life that always went in a lot of different directions all at once.\n\nThen, Donna Morrissey author of six national bestsellers novels. She has received awards in Canada, the U.S., and England. Her fiction has been translated into several different languages. Born and raised in Newfoundland, she now lives in Halifax. Today we\u2019ll talk about her new memoir Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist.