One day, I had to face the fact that there were no more options, and even borrowing on the future was no longer viable.
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Anne Cimon
Because going to Montreal seemed like going to another country.
A Second Coming, Canadian Migration FictionEdited by Donald F. Mulcahy, Guernica, 348 pages One of the best stories included in the twenty-four chosen by Thomas Mulcahy, editor of this intriguing anthology, has the chilling title, “Mephisto in the Land of […]
In her recently published memoir Good as Gone, about her marriage with internationally renowned Canadian poet, the late Irving Layton, Anna Pottier boldly asserts that “modern Canadian poetry was born in Irving’s living-room” in his “tiny house” on Kildare Road […]
When I wrote a poem inspired by the 1876 painting by Edgar Degas Dans le Café also known as L’Absinthe, I wasn’t aware that I was practicing a genre that originated in ancient Greece. Ekphrasis, from the Greek “ek” […]
[Holy Fools + 2 Stories, Marianne Ackerman, Guernica Editions, 2014] Holy Fools + 2 Stories is Marianne Ackerman’s first book of short fiction. Ackerman, who is the founder and publisher of The Rover an online magazine of art and culture […]
Pavitra in Paris Stories for Life by Vinita Kinra Greengardens Media, Toronto, Canada, 2013 Vinita Kinra, who has recently published her first book, Pavitra in Paris: a collection of eleven short stories (www.vinitakinra.com), was born in Canada in 1975. […]
I have become interested in the sonnet form recently after years of writing and publishing books of free verse. My preference is free verse but why not try my hand at writing a sonnet? It would be a […]
The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi, by Alex Stein, Onesuch Press, 2012. Conceived by Alex Stein, U.S. writer, illustrator, and author of Made Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists (Ugly Duckling Press, 2009), and Egyptian-American writer Yahia Lababidi, whose […]
In the National Gallery of Canada, gazing at Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings, some still in their original, massive carved wood frames, gave the sensation of being in nineteenth century Paris, at the famous gallery Goupil & Co, managed […]
IN THE WRITERS’ WORDS Conversations with Eight Canadian Poets, Laurence Hutchman, Guernica Press, Toronto-Buffalo-Lancaster (UK), 2011 The1950s in Canada were energized by a group of young poets who were on a mission to create a national literature. Their hard […]
Norman Bethune was a world-reknowned Canadian surgeon, a passionate humanitarian, and a brilliant medical innovator. Born in Ontario in 1890, Bethune studied medicine in Canada and Britain. In 1925, he contracted tuberculosis, epidemic at that time. He recovered and dedicated […]
The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning, edited by George Bowering and Jean Baird, Random House Canada, 2009. 351 pp. The Heart Does Break is a Canadian anthology of personal stories on grief and mourning […]
Norman Bethune by Adrienne Clarkson Penguin Canada hardcover, 200 pp, 2009 At a conference on April 15, 2009 at Concordia University, Adrienne Clarkson, former governor general of Canada and now biographer of Norman Bethune, suggested that one of the […]
