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Nov 12, 2009
McCrae's In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields" is one of the most celebrated poems of the World War I era. Lt. Col. John McCrae was a surgeon in the Canadian Army, when he wrote this poem.
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May 21, 2009
Connelly's The Story
Karen Connelly's "The Story" exemplifies the godless horror experienced by the individual that has no inkling of his/her true self.
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Feb 25, 2009
Solway's The Garden
Canada's outstanding poet, David Solway, offers a lush scene of communicating plant and animal residents of a garden in spring in his poem simply titled, "The Garden."
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Dec 4, 2008
December Poet – David Solway
The speaker of David Solway's "What Makes a Poem" suggests the making of malt liquor as he associates it with the making of a poem.
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Oct 21, 2008
Atwood's In the Secular Night
If thinking requires understanding, then many poets are guilty of thinking without thought, but the gift of loose musing can result in superb yet silly poetic drama.
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May 20, 2009
David Seymour and George Murray in St. John's
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Meg Coles
Toronto's David Seymour and Newfoundland's George Murray brave the muggy weather and give a cozy reading at St. John's foremost arts pub, The Ship on Duckworth Street.
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May 3, 2009
Book Review of A Newfoundland Journal
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Stella Walsh
In response to her travels on the west coast of Newfoundland in 2003, MacFadyen has created a book-length poem containing vivid and diverse images.
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Feb 25, 2009
Authors at Harbourfront Centre Celebrates Poets
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Y F Chin
Authors at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto is holding its first "Open Stage Night" by showcasing 20 young poets, aged 35 years or younger.
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Dec 30, 2008
Margaret Atwood's "Variations on the Word Love"
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Matthew Klitsch
The sarcastic narrator in Atwood's poem scorns the confusion society expresses between emotional and purely physical love.
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Jun 16, 2008
Four Canadian Eco-Poets
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Catherine Owen
Poets have always celebrated nature. Now in a time of ecological crisis, their voices, speaking out against planetary plunder, are even more essential.
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May 6, 2008
Cohen's Passionless Catholics
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Caitlin Ward
As a young poet, Leonard Cohen was preoccupied with passion and mythic imagery. In "St. Catherine's Street" he examines how one diminishes the other.
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Mar 7, 2008
Poet Isabella Valancy Crawford
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Anya Laurence
A short look at the life and career of a woman who, in her short life, brought forth poems that deserve a place in Canada's literary heritage.
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