HPPR Radio Readers Book Club

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.

Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, thinking about Plainwater, a multilayered work from early in the career of Anne Carson, a writer pegged as a contender for a Nobel.

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.”

Hello, Radio Readers! Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, here to reflect on Anne Carson’s Plainwater, an eclectic collection of essays and poetry – and just in time for April, National Poetry Month.

Hello HPPR listeners. I’m Andrea Elise in Amarillo, and I am excited to tell you about a poem called “A Song of Winter Weather.”Isn’t it fun to stumble upon an author who, though widely published, is new to you?

Through essay and poetry, Carson envisions a present-day interview with a seventh-century BC poet, and offers varied lecturettes. She imagines the muse of a fifteenth-century painter attending a phenomenology conference in Italy.

For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson from Colby, Kansas.I remember when I was a kid in the 1980s the first time I saw water being sold in a convenience store.

I was incredibly excited when I learned that we would be reading a futurist novel for this section of the HPPR book club. From Afrofuturist Octavia Butler’s novel to Anishinaabe artist Lisa Jackson’s virtual reality art experience Biidaban: First Light, I’ve always appreciated speculative fiction ...

I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.This is the fourth and final review of Nicholas Lamar Soutter’s science fiction novel, The Water Thief.

I love satire but have to admit that I’m slightly frightened by what could be seen as seeds in today’s world blossoming in Nichola Lamar Soutter’s The Water Thief. Satire as realism is not particularly funny.