Lauren Peat comes onto the show to talk about her first poetry chapbook, Future Tense. Andrew asks about ending poems with questions. It's a curious chat!

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DETAILS: Lauren's Vancouver chapbook launch, hosted by Andrew!

-- Lauren Peat is a writer, translator, and teacher. Her poems and translations have appeared in journals such as Arc Poetry Magazine, Asymptote, No Tokens, The Malahat Review, and World Literature Today. Her writing, in both English and French, is also featured in the repertoire of acclaimed vocal ensembles across North America. Translation Editor for the poetry magazine Volume, she lives in Vancouver and works in public education.

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Andrew French is a poet from North Vancouver, British Columbia. They have published three chapbooks, most recently Buoyhood (forthcoming with Alfred Gustav Press, 2025). Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. They write poems, book reviews, and have hosted this very podcast since 2019.