Poet Laureate George McWhirter to read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show!
By worldpoetry on May 10, 2007 - 3:00pm
Poet Laureate George McWhirter to read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show!
The World Poetry Café Radio Show, with hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea are proud to feature the poet laureate of Vancouver May 15, beginning at 9:00 pm. on CFRO, 102.7 FM. For internet connections, go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links. For satellite: Starchoice 845.
McWhirter's first book, Catalan Poems (Oberon, 1971), shared the 1972 Commonwealth Prize with Chinua Achebe’s Cry Soul Brother; McWhirter's novel Cage (Oberon), about a B.C. priest in Mexico, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1988; and he has received the League of Canadian Poets Canadian Chapbook Prize (for Ovid in Saskatchewan, 1998), the F.R. Scott Prize for Translation (1988), the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (1972), the Macmillan Prize for Poetry (1969) and a Killam Prize (1998) for his teaching.
Please tune in and listen to this amazing poet and person!
Co-host Ariadne Sawyer says:” We are please to welcome George to our World Poetry Family!
For more information: ariadnes@uniserve.com
