From The Prairies to the Pacific Rim (AUDIO)

featuring guest poets Sacha Ouellet, Emily Riddle, and Rita Wong
produced and edited by Erica H Isomura
runtime: 50 minutes

erica h isomura · From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim (with Rita Wong, Emily Riddle & Sacha Ouellet)

From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim is a poetic storytelling piece responding to climate despair. Blending soundscapes from coastal BC with eco-poetics, this work connects listeners with the spirit of language, land, water, and one other.

Listen as poets Rita Wong, Emily Riddle, Sacha Ouellet and Erica H Isomura trace ancestry, activism, and artistic endeavours in this poetic exchange, moving from amiskwaciwâskahikan in the Prairies, across the Rocky Mountains, and into the Salish Sea.

Read more in THIS Magazine.

Audio recorded on location at Wedzin kwa, Kwecwecnewtxw, Holmes Creek, Brunette River, Burnaby Lake, and Coquitlam River.

Thank you to the Powell Street Festival, VIVO Media Arts, and BC Multiculturalism for in-kind and financial support for this project.

© 2026 Erica H. Isomura