80. The Poem's Responsibility w/ Tom Cull
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Tom Cull joins Andrew to reconnect and talk about his new poetry collection, Kill Your Starlings. Andrew asks about elegies and IKEA. It\'s a good one!
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\\nTom Cull was born and raised in Huron County in Treaty 29 territory. He currently resides in London, Ontario,\\xa0on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples. Tom works at the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority and teaches creative writing at Western University. He was the Poet Laureate for the City of London from 2016-2018. Tom is the author of two books of poems:\\xa0Kill Your Starlings\\xa0(Gaspereau Press, 2023) and\\xa0Bad Animals\\xa0(Insomniac Press, 2018). His chapbook,\\xa0What the Badger Said, was published in 2013 (Baseline Press). His work has appeared in several journals, and anthologies including\\xa0This Magazine, The Rusty Toque,\\xa0Long Con Magazine,\\xa0The Windsor Review,\\xa0The New Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, and\\xa0Undocumented: Great Lakes Poet Laureates on Social Justice\\xa0(Michigan State UP). His work has also been included in group exhibitions through Embassy Cultural House, and GardenShip and State. Cull is the director of Antler River Rally (ARR), a grass roots environmental group he co-founded in 2012 with his partner Miriam Love. ARR works to protect and restore the Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River).\\xa0\\xa0
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\\nAndrew French\\xa0is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published two chapbooks,\\xa0Poems for Different Yous\\xa0(Rose Garden Press, 2021) and\\xa0Do Not Discard Ashes\\xa0(845Press, 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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