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. Follow or subscribe to receive all new episodes.
Episodes
This week on The Deep Shore—Roaring.
This poem came from Roaring Beach on turrakana/tasman peninsula. It was so windy that day I couldn't stay down by the water for long and so I found a warm nook in the sand dunes to tuck myself away from the strong easterly. I wrote this poem after waking up from a deep afternoon nap nestled into the safety of this place. It's one of those poems that seemed to rise up from the land already ...
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 relationship to it. This one has always remained a simple but precious reminder of how to tend gently to grief and nature, and how all things are a mirror for us, and perhaps we are a mirror for the...
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 flutes feature as the intro/outro to this podcast.
I wrote this poem to welcome back the brave humans who spent 4 days and 4 nights alone in the wilderness on a journey of remembering their true...
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 how the elements we are in relationship with can represent traits that we as humans can long to feel, though at times feel so unattainable to embody in their purity and ancient origin.
How do we belong among these...
This week on The Deep Shore, a poem of blessing. A poem to bless your life and bless your way.
This poem is inspired by John O'Donohue's 'Beannacht', which is the gaelic word for blessing.
The ocean soundscapes in this episode were recorded on wukaluwikiwayna (Maria Island) on the East Coast of Lutruwita, Tasmania, a place of deep remembering and heartache. May the spirit of the ocean touch your heart and bring a moment o...
This first episode is an introduction to 'The Deep Shore' Podcast, an entryway into solace, rest, and remembering.
Theme music by Cat Bednarski.
Cover art by Kate Ryder.
Words by Helena Turner.
The Deep Shore is recorded on Muwinina country, in Nipaluna, Hobart.
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