Montreal Serai

June, 2007

Poetry

02-06-07

Elergy for a Chinese (or any other) mineworker Rana Bose

(Every few months, perhaps weeks, there is a major Coal mine accident in China. Environmental issues are not just climate  Read more…

Prose

02-06-07

Communist hot dogs… S. Nadja Zajdman

Communist Hot Dogs, In Pursuit of Petula, and A Kiss from Marlene Dietrich   The fortieth anniversary of the opening  Read more…

Prose

02-06-07

Casements Brian Campbell

CASEMENTS (after Charles Baudelaire)   Through this doubled pane, the city spreads before me like a jeweled necklace.  Strings of  Read more…

Prose

02-06-07

Changing buses in Nicaragua Sheila Kristinnson

We left San Juan Del Sur early this morning, heading for Rivas. The bus waited on the side of the  Read more…

Music

02-06-07

James Finnerty’s accoustic sound Susan Dubrofsky

  “James Finnerty started the night with his calm, quiet wit and heart-hurting hopeful lyrics and masterful guitar.” – Risa  Read more…

Commentary

02-06-07

Italophobia: more of a generalized malady – part 2 Mirella Bontempo

Part 1 is contained in Volume 20 No. 1 – ed Only until recently, the fabled term Italophobia emerged and  Read more…

Poetry

02-06-07

Planta’s plaint Maya Khankhoje

Planta’s Plaint   I had returned to Siderea my ancestral home spending my time hitching rides on stars, swimming in  Read more…

Interview

02-06-07

One winter soldier Maria Worton

  Scott Camil in Vietnam, taken from archival footage used in the Winter Soldier documentary. In his life Scott Camil  Read more…

Performance Art

02-06-07

Listen to Saidye’s eco-rant Anna Fuerstenberg

 Hello children of the planet Cassandra. It is so wonderful to be on a visit here in the earth year  Read more…

Book Review

02-06-07

Guerilla gardening Maya Khankhoje

Guerrilla Gardening. A Manualfesto by David Tracey. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC., 2007. The conventional army loses if it  Read more…

Photo Essay

02-06-07

The good, the bad and the ugly Susan Dubrofsky & Maya Khankhoje

Mount Royal Park, designed by Olmsted of Central-Park-in-New-York-fame  is an oasis of greenery right smack in the middle of the  Read more…

Commentary

01-06-07

Everybody is talking green, but what does this mean? Dimitri Roussopoulos

The auditorium of St. James United Church on Ste.Catherine Street was packed with an eager crowd of over 300 persons.  Read more…

Commentary

01-06-07

A big story in a small place Patrick Barnard

I – A Public Place Like A Painting We are all acutely aware that our world is both a big  Read more…

Art

01-06-07

House bodies and other works Naomi Bellos

Artist’s Statement: Naomi Bellos, a Montreal artist working in printmaking, was born in the U.K. She has a Bachelor in  Read more…

Editorial

01-06-07

Facts, probabilitites and imagining Maria Worton

This issue of Montreal Serai is dedicated to the environment which is why it contains facts, probabilities and imagining. We  Read more…

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