The Environment: Facts, probabilitites and imagining

Volume 20 Issue 2
Communist hot dogs…
Prose

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 of Expo ’67 unleashed a flood of memories for me. As soon as season passes became available, passes which took […]

Casements
Prose

Casements

Brian Campbell

CASEMENTS (after Charles Baudelaire)   Through this doubled pane, the city spreads before me like a jeweled necklace.  Strings of lights delineate throughways.  Pinpoints of light shunt the length of them, lives encased in molded squares of metal that accelerate […]

Changing buses in Nicaragua
Prose

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 road with a small cafe selling gallo pinto and eggs. There was an old beat up car across the street […]

James Finnerty’s accoustic sound
Music

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 Dickens, Indyish Click on here to listen the mp3 of “Vermont Song”. Interview below. Vermont Song – Lyrics Two birds […]

Planta’s plaint
Poetry

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 milky ways, zipping in and out of darkness and thoroughly enjoying myself from my vantage point I would drink in […]

One winter soldier
Interview

One winter soldier

Maria Worton

  Scott Camil in Vietnam, taken from archival footage used in the Winter Soldier documentary. In his life Scott Camil has been shot three times: twice in Vietnam and once by the US government. A well known anti-war activist and […]

Guerilla gardening
Book Review

Guerilla gardening

Maya Khankhoje

Guerrilla Gardening. A Manualfesto by David Tracey. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC., 2007. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. — Henry Kissinger. Guerrilla gardening can be summarily defined […]

Facts, probabilitites and imagining
Editorial

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 need all three to see the environment, to see ourselves, because the environment is us. Whatever we do to it […]

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