The Deep Shore
Welcome to The Deep Shore—a podcast that offers short, immersive episodes that seek to translate the soul of the living world through poetry and meditations.
These episodes are designed to act as companions throughout your day, offering a moment in time, dedicated to beauty, language, connection, and the often left-untended landscape of our inner worlds.
From poet and wilderness guide Helena Turner, The Deep Shore is an invitation to slow down and pay attention, to see clearly the nature of our own lives as mirrors of the world around us, to be willing to live and to feel.
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Episodes
5 episodes
IF YOU WERE THE RIVER
This week on The Deep Shore—If You Were The River. This poem was written at the creek during the years I lived in a community in the Huon Valley in Southern Tasmania. I wrote many poems inspired by this little river and my growing rela...
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ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
This week on The Deep Shore—All The Time In The World. This poem was written recently, in November 2025. It was the last day of a wilderness rite of passage program in Southern Tasmania that I facilitated with my dear friend Cat, whose...
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I YEARN TO BE WATER
This week on The Deep Shore, I yearn to be water. This poem was written in a haven-of-a-home in Deep Bay, Southern Tasmania. This poem is a love song to the uncontained yet steady power of the natural world, and h...
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