75. Ekphrasis & Reflecting on Past Work w/ Yvonne Blomer
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Yvonne Blomer pops by to talk about her latest poetry collection, The Last Show on Earth. Andrew goes to the expert for water and nature poem advice. It\'s a joy!
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\\nYvonne Blomer lives on the traditional territories of the WS\\xc1NEC\\xb4 (Saanich) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation. Her most recent book is The Last Show on Earth, Caitlin Press, 2022. In the fall of 2022 Palimpsest Press released Book of Places\\u201d 10th Anniversary Edition with new poems and layout. Yvonne\\u2019s poetry books also include As if a Raven (Palimpsest Press, 2015), and the anthologies Refugium: Poems for the Pacific and Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds (Caitlin Press, 2017 and 2021). Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur is her memoir exploring body, time, and travel. Yvonne is the past Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. and Arc Magazine\\u2019s poet-in-residence for 2022-23. This spring the anthology Yvonne co-edited, Hologram: Poems for P.K. Page will be released with Caitlin Press.
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\\nAndrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks, Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and host this very podcast.
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