I met with Phil Hall, whose latest collection of poems, Killdeer, has just won the Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for English Poetry. It’s a sensitive, engaging, revealing work that incorporates narrative essay, life philosophy and literary criticism into its stanzas.

In sharp contrast to  the arrogant, impenetrable and solipsistic, Hall’s poetry is humbly presented, accessible, beautiful, pastoral, reflective and at times profound. Listen here as we talk about brown speckled eggs and fiddle tunes, imbalance and literary prize juries, lying, distraction, pain, what’s important, plus theatre and spectacle,  truth and doubt.