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Sustenance
Volume 30 Issue 1

Sources of sustenance
What sustains our hearts, our minds, our bodies, our spirits, our families, our communities, our environment?

Hōshanō: how to portray an invisible enemy
After Fukushima, it became clear to me that there was a problem with memory in Japan....

Dreams and Other Lifelines
In Che’s imagination, two things were inextricably linked with sustenance – freedom and sacrifice.

The Man who Taught his Horse to Live without Eating
Well then, assuming you’ve got air you can breathe, water to drink, food to nourish you – what more do you want?

Jeevan Bhagwat: An Interview
I believe that poets have a moral responsibility to speak up for those whose own voices have been suppressed or altogether silenced.

Review of The Invention of Wings
The title of The Invention of Wings is inspired by ancient black folklore which maintains that Africans were able to fly before they lost their wings when trapped into slavery.

Review of Après Satie: For Two and Four Hands
I opened Dean Steadman’s collection hoping for something rich and flavourful, and I was not disappointed.

A Novel’s Prophetic Powers
Set in the near future and structured into two books, the novel tells the story of a family and their fraught journey from New York City to Montréal, or, in some respects, from the dangers of dystopia to the refuge of utopia.

Sustenance is not debatable
Perhaps the notion that indigenous people living on reservations should have the same constitutional right to clean drinking water as non-indigenous people has not really dawned on the city people!

“Montreal – Cultural Vitality and Inclusive Artistic Communities”
The speakers, however, made little reference to people from different cultures, ethnic origins or language groups, with the exception of Charles Bender, a First Nation’s speaker.

Review of Shimmer Report
Because going to Montreal seemed like going to another country.

Sustenance
...we need to honour these silenced and silent women and all others who are still exiled and violated and unseened.

Review of Books by Norman Nawrocki
Though he is a chronicler of injustice, misery and the need to oppose the status quo, you don’t feel weighed down while reading Nawrocki.

The Biodiversity Crisis
"The human impact on biodiversity, to put the matter as briefly as possible, is an attack on ourselves."