Dirty, Drunk and Punk
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Broadcast: November 17, 2011 | 6:30 PM | CKCU 93.1FM
Featured Voices: Jeff Blackman, Bardia Sinaee
Featured Music: Bunchofuckingoofs – “Fascist Statement” and “Destroy All Automobiles” | John Coltrane – “By the Numbers”
Links: The Brave Never Write Poetry by Daniel Jones | Dirty, Drunk and Punk by Jennifer Morton | Dinosaur Porn (Ferno House, 2011) | 2011 Governor General’s Award Ceremony
Description:
According to Daniel Jones, Canada’s established poetry scene by the 1980s had become “a mutual admiration society where poetry was nothing more than the currency that brought greater currency… Canadian poetry had become a huge and corrupt bureaucracy. It was ugly, cynical and full of pettiness and hatred. I loved it.”
This week we take a look Toronto’s punk scene in the 1990s. Set against the austere musical stylings of Bunchofuckingoofs, Jeff Blackman discusses the “poet laureate of puking” Daniel Jones, whose book was recently reprinted by Coach House 26 years after David McFadden picked it out of their slush pile.
With moments left to spare, our hosts also read a couple of poems by Leigh Nash and James Nadel from the recently released poetry anthology Dinosaur Porn.
We forgot to record this week’s show on Adobe Audition so the audio quality isn’t exactly up to Odourless snuff, but please bear with us–we’ll be back on air on December 15 with audio so crisp you could spread butter on it.
