This week’s guest is Antony Di Nardo. The programme is an encore presentation from 2025. Antony Di Nardo has written nine books of poetry. His award-winning work appears widely in journals and anthologies across Canada and internationally, also translated into several languages. His long poem suite May June July was winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize for 2017 and was short-listed for a National Magazine Award. He is an active member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Cobourg Poetry Workshop. The winner of the inaugural Don Gutteridge Poetry Award, Through Yonder Window Breaks was published by Wet Ink Books. Antony’s present project is his collection Cloudspotting which he presented with his insights into the work of Antonio Damasio at the Accenti Festival of the Arts hosted by the University of PEI in Charlottetown last June.
Award winning author
Karin Wells
Karin Wells is a journalist, lawyer and much acclaimed author of When Women Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada released only weeks ago. Her previous books are The Abortion Caravan short listed for the Shaughnessy Cohen award for political writing and winner of the Alison Prentice Award for women’s history and More than a Footnote: Canadian Women You Should Know. She has been recognized as one of this country’s leading radio journalists. Over her career she worked in more than fifty countries for CBC Radio making radio documentaries about subjects as diverse as post conflict resolution in Sierra Leone; dementia treatment in Denmark and opera in the English countryside. Karin Wells is also a 3-time winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists documentary award for investigative journalism. Her work regularly won international awards and has been recognized by the United Nations. In 2011 she was inducted into the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honor Society.
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