Can we still save the planet? The one we love more than anything.

Planet, my love...

The Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival invited the winner of our writing contest to answer this question. He wrote an original piece, which we are presenting to you today in the form of a podcast.

Today, we'll hear The Last Garden: A Love Letter to My Grandmother, an original text by Enrique Rafael Aranda Salas, winner of our Planet, My Love... writing contest.

The Planet, My Love... series is an initiative of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, made possible by the Secrétariat aux relations avec les québécois d'expression anglaise, the Doggone Foundation, Emily Ormond & Dr. Jean Kavanagh, Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore, Frances Robert, Susan Kruger and GSI Slough Street Properties Insc.

Credits:

Sound Recording and Mixing: Radio VM

Literary Direction: Isabel Cout

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