January 20

ELA A30: Jan 20 Poetry by request…

A few comments were left on a blog post talking about the Al Purdy poetry and Shane Koyczan, a well-established Canadian slam poet. The Al Purdy poem is well produced and included Gordon Downie, the lead singer for The Tragically Hip who is also a published poet. The Shane poem is such a wonderful and absolutely fitting poem that connects all ideas intended by the A30 course on Canadian literature. The ultimate purpose is to realize the “choices” and great differences that exist in Canada, in the people and the land.  Poetry is meant to be performed, to be read, so it is a wonderful opportunity for us to hear it spoken from the writers themselves. I hope you enjoy these.   [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/vPKeczB3wrg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]   [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/zsq68qRexFc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]  If you open the youtube video, the lyrics for his poem are attached to the blog post from Thursday, but he speaks it fairly clearly so the words are not too blurred to catch. Can you imagine becoming so good at something that Canada’s Tourism industry requests and pays you to write a poem for them? I think he gave them their money’s worth! Maybe he’ll become more famous than… say K.D. Lang! lol  Enjoy! 


Posted January 20, 2008 by Waldner in category ELA 30, Videos

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