Podcast appearances and mentions of john metcalf

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Welcome to MCTV's Community Voices Podcast. Jeff Dulude & John Metcalf present this episode, Lyme Disease & Mental Illness - Part 1. For more information about Midland Community Television or how to make your program, visit us at ⁠⁠⁠cityofmidlandmi.gov/mctv⁠⁠⁠ or 989-837-3474. The views expressed in this program don't necessarily reflect those of Midland Community Television or the City of  Midland.

A new MP3 sermon from Tabernacle Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Fasting: Purpose, Methods, and Danger Subtitle: The Sermon Vault Speaker: John Metcalf Broadcaster: Tabernacle Baptist Church Event: Sunday School Date: 1/30/2005 Bible: Joel 1:14 Length: 36 min.

John Metcalf is angry that after working in Canada as a "storyteller, editor, novelist, essayist, and critic" for more than fifty years his books still only sell about 500 copies each. Regardless of this, he's made a significant contribution to Canadian literature through his editing, teaching, critiquing, compiling of anthologies, publishing, and promotion generally of Canadian writers and the short story form. His work is known for its satire, intense emotion and imagery. In fact, his whole career can be said - John says it himself in Temerity and Gall, the book we discuss here today - to have been an extended conversation with Ezra Pound's Imagism. In our chronological conversation we examine John's life (he was born in 1938) starting with England and his relationship with his father, clergyman Thomas Metcalf; we talk about John's work with Oberon Press, ECW, Porqupine's Quill, and Biblioasis; about him teaching in the Montreal school system and almost dying of boredom, about publishing textbooks, and drinking with Mordecai Richler; about Michael Macklem (some people think he was a dick); about early catastrophes with Jack David and Robert Lecker, a lack of communication with Tim Inkster, and a love of Dan Wells's ambition. It's not all just juicy Canadian publishing gossip however, we also discuss James Joyce and the advent of film and modernism, Hemingway's first short story and the misspelling of his name, the serious ideas that underpin John's writing and editorial practice, and the success he's enjoyed, over many decades, of getting important books published. And finally, in the end, there's his patient, respectful wife Myrna working in the other room.

A new MP3 sermon from Tabernacle Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Folly of the Hypocrite Subtitle: The Sermon Vault Speaker: John Metcalf Broadcaster: Tabernacle Baptist Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 9/7/2003 Bible: Matthew 6:1 Length: 31 min.

This webinar presents a book “Paving Our Ways”, which references Austroads' research and provides a comprehensive international history of the world's pavements, running from the earliest human settlements to the present day. No previous book has covered such a broad canvass. The book is written for general and technically oriented readers, tracing the human and social aspects of pavement development and use and providing detailed technical background. It also caters to students of engineering and transport wishing to broaden their knowledge of their profession or taking a course in the history and sociology of engineering. “Paving Our Ways” provides interesting and curious asides about the stranger aspects of pavements. It explores the controversies surrounding the development of macadam pavements and, later, of asphalt pavements in a way that provides many insights into modern pavements. It also examines the subsequent competition between pavements using bituminous or cementitious binders. The book covers three major time zones. The first is from the times of the Egyptian pharaohs to the end of the Roman era, the second is from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the First World War during which people like Tresaguet, Telford and McAdam had major impacts, and the third is from the end of the First World War to the present time when motorised trucks and machinery dramatically changed the way the pavements were made and used. Looking back on the way current pavement technologies evolved, the authors of the book Maxwell Lay, formerly Director ConnectEast and Australian Road Research Board, John Metcalf, Formerly Louisiana State University, USA and Kieran Sharp, Road Eng. Assoc. of Asia and Australasia show how Australian practice relates to international practice.

The quiet roads are encouraging many of us to dust off our bikes and get out for the first time for a while.  But just as we’re finding that teaching kids school work at home is not as easy as it might seem, teaching kids to cycle isn’t so easy either. So in this podcast [...]

Herts County Council has outlined its ideas for more sustainable transport in and around St.Albans. Do the plans go far enough and could you suggest better ideas? Cllr Derek Ashley explains the proposals and John Metcalf of St.Albans Cycle Campaign gives his views

Welcome to MCTV's Community Voices Podcast. This episode Nonviolent Peaceforce Presentation by Hunter Dalli is presented by John Metcalf. Imagine your child was abducted and forced to be a child soldier. Thousands of parents in South Sudan and millions around the world face that horrific thought daily. On Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 Hunter Dalli presented his unique story at Creative 360 in Midland, MI. For more information about Midland Community Television or how you can make your own program, visit us at cityofmidlandmi.gov/mctv or call us at 989-837-3474. The views expressed in this program don't necessarily reflect those of Midland Community Television or City of Midland.

This week is Joe talks "ShoeGaze 101" with John Metcalf of the "GG Stalin and Absurdity Junkies" Podcast. Joe and John talk about the history of ShoeGaze, where it came from, the bands that shaped the genre, the specific sound of the genre, and where the state of ShoeGaze is today. Enjoy. Subscribe. Share.  Tell everyone you know. Call the voice mail line so we can hear your thoughts about the album. 1-812-963-4727

Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet in Toronto. He has worked as a book columnist for The National Post, and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of three books: the poetry volumes Bloom and The Scarborough, and Strike Anywhere, a collection of his writing about literature, television and culture. His essays and investigative stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Toronto Life, The Walrus, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He was the 2017 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University and a finalist for the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism. I met Michael at his home in Toronto to talk about his essays in Strike Anywhere (Porcupine's Quill, 2016) Canadian Poetry, Rupi Kaur, Al Purdy and Wordsworth, common speech and common sense, Carmine Starnino and The Lover's Quarrel, John Metcalf, Leonard Cohen and schmaltz, John Thompson, Dante, Scott Griffin, the Saudi arms deal, Margaret Atwood, MacBeth, long-form investigative journalism, crime reporting, self-interest, radical truth-telling and men crying.   

Canadian writer, essayist, and editor John Metcalf shares stories and insights from his writing life in the Margaret Laurence Lecture. He details what makes good writing work with numerous examples, and reveals a touching anecdote about a remarkable intervention from Margaret Laurence herself that inspired him to encourage and guide several generations of younger writers. The lecture was recorded in Vancouver’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema during the 2017 OnWords Conference.

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > www.inverted-audio.com/blind-jacks-journey Blind Jacks Journey is a vinyl-only independent record label based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. The labels name pays homage to local engineering legend John Metcalf (1717-1810) aka Blind Jack of Knaresborough. The label is run by a trio of friends who are also behind the Crow Castle Cuts imprint, another outlet for limited releases. Blind Jacks Journey is forged out of a passion to release a slew of deep and dreamy house records, melding old skool sounds with the new. The imprint will release a series of various artist EPs, the first of which is Dream House Volumes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, which all have a dance floor feel to them, but will also feature a couple of laid back atmospheres to dream away to. They will also release a series called 'The Trip'. Since discovering the label, courtesy of Kristina Records, we've been spinning Gnork's track 'Blorp93' featured on 'Dream House Volume 1.2' non stop, so we thought it was appropriate for us to invite Gnork to record a mix and for IA and for us to speak to Andy of Blind Jacks Journey about the label.

Lt. Col. Ken Ostrat - U.S. Air Force Reserve C-130H Hercules pilot and Master Sgt. John Metcalf - Air Force Reserve C-130H Hercules loadmaster, both are deployed to 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. Aircrew and support personnel from the 746th EAS, forward deployed from an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, flying a C-130H Hercules humanitarian relief mission to Sukkur Air Base, Pakistan, delivering humanitarian aid supplies to victims of the flooding there. Produced by Tech. Sgt. Justin Suddeth. Also see "Pakistan Airlift" in the B-roll and Packages sections. pakflood10

Package made from “Pakistan Airlift” in the B-roll and Interviews sections about aircrew and support personnel from the 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, forward deployed from an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, flying a C-130H Hercules humanitarian relief mission to Sukkur Air Base, Pakistan, delivering humanitarian aid supplies to victims of the flooding there. Produced by Tech. Sgt. Justin Suddeth. Includes soundbites from Lt. Col. Ken Ostrat - U.S. Air Force Reserve C-130H Hercules pilot and Master Sgt. John Metcalf - Air Force Reserve C-130H Hercules loadmaster, both deployed to 746th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron. pakflood10

Col. Greg Nelson the Deputy Director of Mobility Forces, Air Force Central Command with the 123rd Airlift Wing from the Kentucky Air National Guard and Master Sgt. John Metcalf from Montgomery, Ala., with the 746 Expeditionary Airlift Squadron talk to a military reporter about the Pakistan flood relief efforts. Produced by Cpl. Jenie Fisher.

Prof. David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor (English at the University of Ottawa), writer, and editor.  He specializes in three literatures: medieval, Victorian and Canadian. He is editor of the scholarly Journal of Canadian Poetry (since 1986) and general editor of McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library series (since 1988). His essay collections, include The Canadian Imagination (1977), a book that introduced Canadian literature and literary criticism to an American audience, plus studies on Morley Callaghan and Stephen Leacock. But it's not for any of this (save a defense of Callaghan in the face of John Metcalf's condemnations) that I sought  Prof. Staines' company. Rather it's because he co-edited Northrop Frye on Canada (University of Toronto, 2001). Frye, Canada's most celebrated literary theorist, a man many hold responsible for the dearth of evaluative analysis in Canadian criticism; a man whose thoughts and person Staines knows (and knew) very well; is the reason we met. Please listen to a conversation that reveals the author of Fearful Symmetry and The Anatomy of Criticism as a surprisingly self contradictory critic; speaks to the remarkable talent of Alice Munro and Canada's current stock of strong fiction writers; outlines criteria for acceptance into the New Canadian Library; and identifies some of the best Canadian novels.

In a conversation I had with him, Canadian critic, editor and short story writer John Metcalf hauls off on both the Giller Prize and two-time winner M.G. Vassanji;  the former for boosterism and an inability to distinguish between good and bad literature (for placing two-time winner Alice Munro in the same category as Vassanji), and the latter for being a person who, ‘there's no question,' can't " handle the English language". I met with Vassanji in Montreal at the Blue Met Writers Festival ostensibly to talk about  his new Penguin biography of Mordecai Richler (please stay tuned for the audio); but before commencing, I asked him to respond to Metcalf's attacks. Here's what he had to say:  

I interviewed Canadian critic/editor/writer John Metcalf on his love of Books and Book Collecting. The same afternoon we also talked about the process of book reviewing, whether or not the use of insult and/or invective is ever justified and if so, when. John is known as a ‘blunt' critic; one who tells his un-sugared truths directly, who is not reticent to attack ‘with savagery' books he feels 'insult' him. The conversation refers, among other things, to the Salon des Refuses exercise undertaken by Canadian Notes and Queries and The New Quarterly magazines, personal slights, the problem of awarding the same prizes to authors of widely varying talents, and the importance to healthy literary culture of truth-telling critics. (Lengthy sentence alert): There are predictable attacks on M.G. Vassanji, Ann Marie MacDonald, and Robertson Davies here, and there is praise too for many young Canadian short story writers, but perhaps the most evident feature of this discussion is Metcalf's anger, precipitated, I'd say, primarily by a combative dedication to serving a cause larger than himself – excellence in literature – aggravated in small part both by the perceived inability of Canadians to recognize literary greatness, and personal rejection at the hands of  this country's ‘literary establishment' – bolstered by a natural taste for confrontation and a glee in the fighting of a good fight.

John Metcalf is best known as a writer/editor who has worked with many of Canada's foremost short story writers including Michael Winter, Terry Griggs, Steven Heighton, and Caroline Adderson. Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol, he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to writing his own novels, short stories and essays, he for years edited the work of others at the Porcupine's Quill. He is currently Senior Editor with Canadian Notes and Queries magazine. Metcalf is also a serious book collector. Riffing off John Carter's Taste & Technique in Book Collecting, we talk here about, among other things: what defines the book collector, Richard Yates, and Eleven Kinds of  Loneliness being one of the most 'stupendous books of short stories ever published in the United States,' dealers stock-piling the first editions of up and coming authors, Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades and how little a signed First of it costs, connoisseurship and Sir Kenneth Clark, collecting what you love, and what the budding Canadian book collector should buy.

John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canada's foremost short story writers, including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter. Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol, he emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to his own writings (novels, stories and essays), he currently holds the un-salaried post of Senior Editor at the Porcupine's Quill of Erin, Ontario and is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries. He resides in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife, Myrna. We talk here about the role of the editor, game playing, the placement of words and punctuation, manipulating emotions, unclogging channels between writers and readers, diplomacy, nouns, hammers, electric current, anti-Americanism, ignorant Canadian nationalists and inferiority complexes.