This episode with Daniel Scott is on the topic of suicide. When faced with accounts of suicide, Daniel "dared to look" at this complex subject and realized the importance of finding ways to give voice to suicide. As editor and contributor of an upcoming anthology of suicide poems, Voicing Suicide, Daniel engages this topic in his writing and offers space for others to voice their experiences of suicide.

In 2020 Ekstasis will be releasing Voicing Suicide an anthology of suicide poems he has edited with an afterword by Australian scholar, Dr. Katrina Jaworski. His poetry addressing suicide has been used by several suicide scholars in current academic chapters and papers. He has a chapbook [klee-shays] undone, volume one in production with Nose in Book Publishing. He won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick in 1984. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and The federation of BC Writers, an Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, School of Child and Youth Care, as well as a father and grandfather.

Daniel G Scott, is the 5th Artistic Director of the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series in Victoria (since January 2016). He has published gnarled love, terrains, Random Excess and and most recently Aftertime with Ekstasis Editions, as well as black onion and two chapbooks: street signs and Interrupted with Goldfinch Press. In 1983 he published his first chapbook Pyramid and other dreams (The Purple Wednesday Society). He has individual poems in anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications and, with Shannon McFerran, The Girls Diary Project (University of Victoria, 2013).

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