On The Air: Alternating Wednesdays 6:00 pm -

London poet, playwright and performer Penn Kemp presents her new poetry show, Gathering Voices.  Sound operas, writing exercises, poems in translation...  Sound Opera is a new form Penn developed in performance and recording with collaborators in a desire to lift poetry off the page to the stage.  Sound Opera is based on text but it expands poetic possibilities to include voice, music and computer manipulation to express narrative when emotions burst the seams of print. So it’s perfect for radio!

Penn has returned to her old home for good, it seems.  Since 1966, she has taught creative writing and sounding in Canadian schools, from Kindergarten to University.  Penn has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as Canada's first poetry CD-ROM   She performs in festivals around the world; see pennkemp.ca. Penn Kemp is one of four poets discussed in Poets, Poetry and New Media: Attending to the Teaching and Learning of Poetry: http://faculty.uoit.ca/hughes/research.htm.  News is up on http://www.mytown.ca/pennletters/.  Penn can be heard on myspace.com/pennkemp and http://www.mytown.ca/pennkemp/.