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'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept

– hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant –

across continents and time.'

So begins Sarah Howe’s extraordinary new collection, Foretokens, returning to the riddle of belonging she explo... more

This powerful work by award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith exposes the uncomfortable truth about America’s founding text: while Common Sense is celebrated as a cornerstone of American democracy, Thomas Paine’s arguments for “total freedom and equa... more

This award-winning bilingual collection intertwines the lives of a Renaissance painter and a modern migrant worker, offering a fresh perspective on art and migration.

In this highly imaginative work, the lives of the northern Renaissance painter Hie... more

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Conor Mc Donnell about his long poem, What We Know So Far Is...(Wolsak & Wynn, 2025).

The Irish word for shadow, “scáth,” is also our word for shelter.

In a powerful long poem that captures the d... more

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Sarah Howe
Author of Foretokens
Foretokens (Random House, 2025)
Episode: Sarah Howe, "Foretokens" (Random House, 2025)
Crystal Simone Smith
Poet and author of Common Sense, Addressed to Today's Citizens of America, An Erasure
Episode: Crystal Simone Smith, "Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizen's of America: An Erasure" (Beacon, 2026)
Manuel Iris
Award-winning bilingual poet, author of The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters
Author, The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters
Episode: Manuel Iris, "The Whole Earth Is a Garden of Monsters / Toda la Tierra Es Un Jardín de Monstruos" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Conor McDonnell
Poet and physician at the Hospital for Sick Children Toronto; associate professor at the University of Toronto; editor-in-chief of Case Repertory
Wolsak & Wynn (publisher) / University of Toronto / SickKids
Episode: Conor Mc Donnell, "What We Know So Far Is..." (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
Eric Weiskott
Professor of English at Boston College; editor of the Piers Plowman A-Text edition
Boston College
Episode: Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
Diamond Forde
Writer and professor; author of The Book of Alice
University affiliations mentioned in discussion (UNC Asheville background)
Episode: Diamond Forde, "The Book of Alice" (Scribner, 2026)
David Martin
Poet and author of Night's Dead
Palimpsest Press
Episode: David Martin, "nightstead" (Palimpsest Press, 2026)
Guy Elston
A poet known for his whimsical style and unique perspective, author of The Character Actor Convention.
Episode: Guy Elston, "The Character Actor Convention" (Gordon Hill Press/Porcupine's Quill, 2025)
Khashayar Kess Mohammadi
Queer Iranian-born Toronto-based poet, writer, and translator
Buckrider Books
Episode: Khashayar Kess Mohammadim, "The Book of Interruptions" (Buckrider Books, 2025)

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Sullivan Summer
Host of New Books Network, focusing on contemporary literary discussions.
Hollay Ghadery
Host of New Books Network and New Books in Poetry, focusing on poetry discussions and author interviews.
Dan Moran
Host of New Books Network, facilitating insightful conversations on literature.

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3.9 out of 5 stars from 27 ratings
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    The guests are wonderful, wonderful ways to wage the hours of my days.

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    MurasakiFloof
    United States7 years ago
  • Too much chatter.

    The interviews are sloppy and informal with a good deal of meaningless chatter. It takes forever to get to meaningful content. I listened to two podcasts and felt I was wasting my time.

    Apple Podcasts
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    OaklandEd
    United States12 years ago

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Crystal Simone Smith, "Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizen's of America: An Erasure" (Beacon, 2026)
Q: Talk about the book's structure. What are, for listeners, like, what are we talking about with this book?
The book presents Thomas Paine's Common Sense in its original, with illuminated blackouts that reveal and conceal text to create a dual reading: you can read the full entailed words or focus on the illuminated lines, which together offer a new perspective on the foundational rhetoric and the exclusions it embodies.
Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
Q: How did you approach the reader-facing decisions, such as glossing or footnotes, for the A-Text edition?
Glosses were added selectively for words with present-day English equivalents, with longer glosses placed in the margins and longer notes in footnotes to discuss issues like key terms and textual variants, ensuring that the edition remains accessible to students without sacrificing scholarly rigor.
Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
Q: When did you decide to undertake the A-Text edition, given the B and C texts are long and challenging to teach?
He realized that editing the A-Text would allow a concise, teachable entry point, and that a complementary student edition would enable instructors to move through the text more efficiently while allowing a seamless segue to the C version for classroom use.
Eric Weiskott, "Cycle of Dreams" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and "Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-Text" (U Exeter Press, 2025)
Q: Let's step back a little bit and talk about scholarly editing. How did this book come together? And for listeners who might be considering preparing a scholarly edition, what advice would you give?
The editor recalls initiating the project after recognizing a need for a student-friendly A-Text edition that could pair with teaching; he drafted a proposal to University of Exeter Press, engaged readers, and spent two summers verifying the text and composing introductions and notes, while visiting multiple libraries to compare manuscript readings against earlier editions.
Guy Elston, "The Character Actor Convention" (Gordon Hill Press/Porcupine's Quill, 2025)
Q: Could you tell us a little more about what you're working on?
Elston shared he is exploring a project centering on the pre-Socratic philosophers, aiming to create a cohesive poetry book that weaves his interests in philosophy into his writing.

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