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Thank you CBC’s Daybreak North for this interview on Orrery.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-109-daybreak-north/clip/15798538-poems-space-probe

Here is Countdown Poem #2 read by scientist and host of CBC’s Quirks and Quarks, Bob McDonald.

Here is Countdown Poem #3 read by Montreal poet and translator Erin Moure who reads the poem first in English and then translates the poem into Galician and reads that version too.

Thank you Catherine Owen for reviewing Orrery.

Here is Countdown Poem #4 read by Wayne Sawchuk, conservationist and advocate of the Muskwa-Kechika wilderness area in BC’s Northern Rockies, reading from his wilderness cabin at Mayfield Lake.

Here is Countdown Poem #5 read by American science writer Dava Sobel who worked as science writer in the Cornell University news bureau in the Pioneer days and interviewed both Carl Sagan and Frank Drake about the image on the Pioneer 10 plaque. Dava also possesses a rare copy of the plaque, which cameos in this video.

6 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem #6 read by Dr. Matthew Shindell, poet and curator of planetary science and exploration at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

7 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem 7, read by National Space Institute member Charles Kux-Kardos.

It’s September 11th, 8 days to the launch of Orrery. Here is Countdown Poem 8, read by writer and friend Katherin Edwards.

It’s September 10th, 9 days to the launch of my poetry book, Orrery, and here is Countdown Poem 9, read by Megan MacLeod and featuring my adorable grandchildren, Ira and Atley MacLeod.