Poet Randall Maggs discusses his book “Night Work” about the troubled soul of legendary hockey goalie Terry Sawchuk plus the nuances of story-telling, conversations with goaltenders, Sawchuk’s Ukrainian heritage and convergence of history and hockey with host Dave Thorvald Olson at the Robson Square covered outdoor rink in Vancouver following a poetry reading promoted by publisher Brick Books.
Lace em up for Poetic Stories about Goalies – Postcard #62 (.mp3, 36:02, 33MB, stereo)
Episode cover art designed by Bread the Producer, photo by Dave O
Book
Night Work – The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs, published by Brick Books — includes links to reviews
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Snaps
From Hockey Hall of Fame by Dave
Special Thanks
Mike Vardy of Eventualism fame
Rob Cottingham and his cartoons: Noise to Signal
Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio podcast
Bread the Producer for audio mix and episode art
- Maggs and Bachinsky, poets ~ Photo by Sean Cranbury
Music etc.
The Drive-by Truckers “Daddy Needs a Drink” live 2007-07-17 – World Cafe Live via Archive.org
The Black Tories “Cleft Palette”
Various crowd recordings from 2010 Winter Olympics games
More Mr. Maggs
NIGHT WORK: THE SAWCHUK POEMS BY RANDALL MAGGS – INFO DOSSIER on Uncle Weed’s Roundup
An interview with Randall Maggs, the Sawchuk Poet
Randall Maggs Recipient of $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for 2010
Night Work – A Sawchuk Poem Video
Legends of Hockey Terry Sawchuk
Randall’s brother Darryl Maggs on Hockeydb.com
Randall Maggs’ Vancouver history:
“On the Vancouver question, that is my birthplace and, though I haven’t lived there in a long while, I still think of it as home. The Canucks are my team. Over the years I have travelled back to the city often to visit my relatives and family. My grandparents lived in South Burnaby off Kingsway pretty much all their adult lives, my grandfather being a millwright and playing an important role in building many of the lumber mills in and around the city. A couple of summers ago my mother and I were having lunch on a terrace on Granville Island and my mother pointed out the remnants of one of my grandfather’s mills. Even after his retirement he’d be called back in to solve a problem that university-trained engineers couldn’t handle. He’d give mill officials fits, scrambling up long ladders long past the age of 80. I attended grade school in South Burnaby, I think Strathmillan School. After her years of following my Air Force father back and forth across the country, my mother went home to live in Surrey and White Rock where she lives at present. My son has been living out there as much as in Newfoundland for most of the past dozen years, having done an MA in Piano Performance with Jane Coop at UBC and working on his PhD in the Arts and Sustainability with John Robinson at UBC.”
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