Time for one Poem – Simpson‘s department store, Toronto

Season's greetings! In the first part of this episode I talk to Theresa Muñoz – a poet born in Vancouver, Canada and now living in Edinburgh, who writes about this transition in her debut collection, Settle (Vagabond, 2016) – about how she got into poetry.

And in the second part I talk to Linda, a support worker at Fortune Works – a social enterprise for people with learning disabilities – about Theresa's poem 'Simpsons department store, Toronto'.

Although Linda may have enjoyed poetry at school (she "can't remember that far back"!) and it has sometimes come up at work or other scenarios in her life, she says that she's never made a "personal choice" to read poetry. Despite this, Linda enjoys the storytelling aspect of Theresa's poem, which leads us to talk about why we like telling these stories from the past.

Read the poem in full here: https://time41poem.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/i-cant-remember-if-i-liked-it-at-school/

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CREDITS

Producer/host: Annie Muir ~ @time41poem

Editor: Jack Rientoul ~ @jackrientoul

Music: JANSKY ~ @radiojansky

Artwork: Max Machen ~ @maxymachen

This podcast was made using funding from the National Lottery, through Creative Scotland.

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More about Theresa: http://www.theresamunoz.com/

More about Fortune Works: http://www.enableglasgow.org.uk/fortuneworks/