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City of St. John’s (Newfoundland) Poet Laureate Mary Dalton has partnered with CHMR 93.5 to create and produce a poetry podcast called Flahoolic.
(“The word flahoolic has roots in the Irish language; one of its meanings given in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English is that of being wonderfully generous,” says Dalton. “It seemed an apt word to suggest the abundance
of poetry in St. John’s, and it has a delicious mouth feel – its own music.”)
Several episodes are currently available, with more scheduled for release in the coming weeks. They feature Dalton’s poems along with those of a few
other St. John’s poets, past and present.
Listen to Flahoolic through your favourite podcast app or on Soundcloud at
https://soundcloud.com/user-461515266
According to Dalton the aim of Flahoolic is to provide poetry of St. John’s in its ideal form: as sound. “Poetry,” she says, “is essentially word-music that carries so many facets of our world.”
“Since Mary began her tenure as the City’s Poet Laureate she has been working tirelessly to make poetry more accessible to the people of St. John’s, and this podcast is just her latest effort in that direction," said Councillor Maggie Burton, Council representative on the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee.
“As a campus and community radio station, CHMR-FM supports and promotes
local arts and culture through a variety of radio programs and podcasts, and we’re delighted to partner with the City’s Poet Laureate to produce Flahoolic,” says Hans Rollmann, Program Director at CHMR-FM.
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David Dalton
dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Goin' away far across the sea/But I'll be back for you/I'm gonna tell
you everything I know/Baby, everything is true” (Van Morrison)
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