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Pat Tyrer

HPPR Radio Readers Book Leader

Radio Reader Pat Tyrer (pronounced ty-REE) will serve as Book Leader for The Cellist of The Cellist of Sarajevo. Tyrer is Jenny Lind Porter Professor of English at WTAMU where she teachers creative writing, American literature and technical communication, but Pat began her career as an LPN and a Navy purchasing agent before beginning her academic career at age 40. She has published short stories, poems and essays in a variety of journals, and has published two books of poetry, Creative Hearts and Western Spaces, Western Places.

  • Violette Newton, 1974 Texas Poet Laureate donated a collection of her papers and possessions to WTAMU’s Cornette Library in 2005. The collection is located in the library's Texas Poets' Corner.
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    Poetry and Water Set II
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club.Today I’ll be sharing some poetry, all tangentially connected to our spring theme of “Water, Water, Neverwhere.” I’ve included poems from famous poets as well as those from poets on the High Plains.
  • Contemporary portrait Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
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    Poetry and Water Set I
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club.Today I’ll be sharing some poetry, all tangentially connected to our spring theme of “Water, Water, Neverwhere.”
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    I’ll Stick to My Coffee
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Bytes for Spring 2024. The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter is a science fiction dystopian novel which ironically is only tangentially about water.
  • Average 2014 – 2016 Depth to Water, Kansas High Plains Aquifer
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    Depletion is not Fiction
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Bytes for Spring 2024. Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains is surely one of the most frightening books I’ve read in recent days, which unfortunately is not fiction.
  • “Me miserable! Which way shall I fly, Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?”
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    Hubris Until It Was Too Late
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. This will be my fourth time discussing Elmer Kelton’s The Time it Never Rained which was published in 1973 and republished in 1984.
  • National Archives at College Park, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Lupe and Rosa Work Side-by-Side
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. I’ll be continuing my talk today on Elmer Kelton’s The Time it Never Rained. Today’s discussion concerns the clash of cultures in West Texas, the men who work the land and those who profit from it.
  • Landscape
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    Grassland Once Sustained Both Sheep and Cattle
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. Today, I’ll be continuing my discussion over Elmer Kelton’s The Time it Never Rained. Today’s discussion concerns the novel’s theme of land use, government policies, and the volatility of Mother Nature.
  • Texas novelist Elmer Kelton died peacefully in his sleep in August 2022. Kelton’s The Time it Never Rained was described by one critic as one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in the 20th century.
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    One of Three Old Cranks
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas, for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. The novel I’ll be talking about today is by Texas author, Elmer Kelton. The Time it Never Rained was published in 1973 and republished in 1984.
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    Book Leader Pat Tyrer Discusses The Time It Never Rained
    Pat Tyrer
    Inspired by actual events, this West Texas novel explores Charlie Flagg’s response to the 1950s drought. An honest, decent rancher, the cranky Flagg refuses the “assistance” of federal aid programs and the accompanying bureaucratic regulations.
  • Artist’s concept of earth-like planets in the future
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    It’s Dystopian. It’s Bleak
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club.The novel I’ll be talking about today is Richard Power’s 2021 novel Bewilderment.
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