Kathryn Corbett is the owner of Lighthouse Books in Brighton. Kathryn is a former elementary school teacher and librarian. Her career working with books and kids and, as an avid reader herself, gave her the interest and qualifications to take over Brighton’s well-known Lighthouse Books when the previous owners retired. She and her husband Dan, bought the business a couple of years ago and are enjoying the challenges of running an independent bookstore in what many have found  difficult times.

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Jennifer Bogart, editor and publisher, and Angelica Ottewill, story teller and harpist, talk about the posthumous autobiography of Angelica’s father-in-law, artist John Ottewill, The book, Journey Of An Artist, follows John’s life and career, from his childhood in wartime Britain to Canada and ultimately to Warkworth, where he lived for many years. His autobiography, recently released, will be for sale at the Market on the the Millennium Trail during the Warkworth Lilac Festival on May 26th and 27th.

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Linda Hutsell Manning has had a long and successful career as a children’s author, poet, novelist and playwright. Recently she has been working on a memoir about her experiences teaching in a one-room school on the outskirts of Cobourg.  Last year, her 2 act comedy A Certain Singing Teacher was produced by the Victorian Operetta Society in Cobourg and this year she published a new story for children with Common Deer Press, Finding Moufette. Catch up with all Linda’s projects in this episode.

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This week we continue to celebrate Poetry Month as we discuss his work with poet, MIchael Topa. Michael was born in Ann Arbor Michiganbut when his mother was hospitalised for severe depression, his father sent him to live with his uncle, a thoracic surgeon in Dallas. Texas.  In 1962-3, Michael lived with his uncle’s family in Kabul and that year Michael was able to travel to Pakistan, India and Nepal. Michael spent 4 years in the United States Air Force as a Weather Observer during the Vietnam War then immigrated to Canada. He studied at the Universities of Michigan, Guam, York and Toronto, worked as a Psycho-educational Consultant and is the co-founder and Director of Greenoaks Educational Services. He has been writing poetry for over fifty years.

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We continue our celebration of Poetry Month with a programme about Wally Keeler. He was born and raised in Cobourg and now describes his occupation as Poetentate, and his location as People’s Republic of Poetry. His work has been published in a number of literary arts journals, including Prism, Impulse, the Fiddlehead, Descant, West Coast Review and others. His poetry collection Walking on the Greenhouse Roof was published by Delta Canada, Montreal, in 1969 to excellent reviews. Wally’s primary life interest is poetry and he has spent his life promoting poetry. Please join us.

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Kathryn MacDonald loves exploring places and experiencing different cultures  which has led to her newest collections of travel poems, for which the working title is Bluu/Azul/Blue Part 1 “Cure for Love: Flight”; Part II “In Love with the Wind”. Kathryn taught online courses in literature and writing through Loyalist College, but in 2013 sailing distracted her and her life took a sharp turn. For several years she spent much of the year in the Caribbean with extended stays in Cuba. Now back in Canada, she looks forward to giving workshops here. She is the author of a poetry collection, A Breeze You Whisper (Hidden Brook Press, 2011) and other poems have been published in literary journals such a Descant and Fiddlehead.

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To celebrate Poetry Month, a discussion of poetry with Gwynn and Felicity and a collage of readings by local poets including Ted Amsden, Gil McElroy, Gwynn Scheltema, Katie Hoogendam, Wally Keeler Janet Richards, Richard Tai Grove, Bridget Campion, Jessica Outram and Felicity Sidnell Reid.

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Paul Nicolas Mason was born in London, England, first attended school in Zimbabwe and has lived in Canada since 1966. Paul was a teacher for over thirty years, but during that time he wrote plays and novels.  His plays include Circles of Grace, The Discipline Committee, and Sister Camille’s Kaleidoscopic Cabaret, and his novels are Battered Soles, The Red Dress and The Night Drummer.  In the fall of 2017 he published his first children’s book, A Pug Called Poppy. Since retiring Paul has become a voice, film and television-actor.  In the last two years he has appeared in over thirty-five projects.

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