S3/E5 - Fiona Lam's acid grammar

Jason welcomes Vancouver's Poet Laureate for a ramble about Emily of New Moon, writing into fear & anxiety, concrete corpses in the living room, goth trenchcoats, werewolves draped in mourning, having some feelings & a trombone, reading to dogs, & the real answer to the question "How do I get published?" Music, as always, by savage hunk DJ Max in Tokyo. Thanks to Wayne Emde for the artwork & to Joe Emde for help with the intro. Join the early sh*t chat at https://www.facebook.com/WRTESpodcast, on Instagram @writersreadtheirearlyshit, & on Bluesky at wrtes@bsky.social. Thank you, wherever & whoever & however you are, for listening.

Some links to what Fiona's been up to:

City Poems Project background (all four stages) 

Sept 16/23 Free Public Curated Screening of City Poems Project Poetry Videos by post-secondary students at Word Vancouver 2023

Canine Library Event on Sept 9/23 at Trout Lake Park, Vancouver and Fiona's blog about last year's Canine Library event (with links to poems about dogs, videos and more)

Spontaneous Poetry Booth: Fiona's blog about last year's Downtown Eastside spontaneous poetry booth experience for the annual Heart of the Street Festival

And the recent poem Fiona read is from her 2019 collection, Odes & Laments