30. Curtis LeBlanc: "Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation"
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Curtis LeBlanc talks poetry, working on a novel, and his new poetry book: Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation. Andrew picks a poem about Free Willy from Curtis\' book to kick off the episode. Everything goes swimmingly.
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\\nCurtis LeBlanc is a poet and writer residing in Vancouver, BC. He is the author of Little Wild (Nightwood, 2018) and Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation (Nightwood, 2020). His work has appeared in Joyland, Geist, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, EVENT, PRISM International, Prairie Fire, Grain, and elsewhere. Curtis holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. He is the recipient of the Readers\\u2019 Choice Award in the Arc Poem of the Year competition and has been shortlisted for The Walrus Poetry Prize. He\\u2019s also the co-founder and Managing Editor of Rahila\\u2019s Ghost Press. He is currently at work on his first novel.
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\\nAndrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.
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