Life ...as a Song - Rachel McCrum
b'Irish poet Rachel McCrum (currently living in Montreal) is part of Blue Metropolis\' Life\\u2026 as a Song Rachel McCrum is originally from Northern Ireland and lived in Edinburgh, Scotland between 2010 and 2016. She was the first BBC Scotland Poet-in-Residence, Broad of cult spoken word cabaret Rally & Broad, and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her first solo show \\u2018Do Not Alight Here Again\\u2019 was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015. She has performed and taught poetry and performance in Ireland, Scotland, the UK, Greece, South Africa, Haiti, and Canada. She is now delighted to call Montreal home, where she is the curator of the Atwater Poetry Project, co-director of the Mile End Poets\\u2019 Festival (with Ian Ferrier), and works fulltime as a freelance poet, performer, event curator, and workshop facilitator. Her first collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018) is published in a bilingual edition with M\\xe9moire d\\u2019encrier in 2020, as Le premier coup de clairon pour r\\xe9veiller les femmes immorales. Poet Rachel McCrum connected strongly to Gordon Lightfoot\'s \'If You Could Read My Mind\'. "I\'m excited to be part of this beautiful group of poets, and to hear how these Canadian and Quebecois songs have reached out over years and oceans. Sitting in Belfast, listening to Lightfoot sing about paperback novels and drugstores was a mystery then," she shared. McCrum enjoyed the chance "to explore the distance between what one thought one remembered, and what was just wistful thinking, caught somewhere in a myriad of tiny cultural differences and misunderstandings; a tumble, a dance, a surprise."'