Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood

Words on Fire – So the Planet Won’t Die of the Human

August 2, 2015 – 2:29 pm

Musicians, poets and novelists will be situating their lyrics and plots in new contexts. — Barry Lord from Art & Energy: How Culture Changes, AAM Press, 2014     Sometimes I am sick of humans except for babies, poets and the ones I love! — Brenda Hillman, excerpt from her poem A Brutal Encounter Recollected […]

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And Still We Sing – A New Year’s Eve Celebration of the Life and Poems of Patrick Lane

December 31, 2012 – 4:31 pm

It is late October, 2012, last evening of the Vancouver Writers’ Festival. There is music in the big room already. Music made by voices. The event starts in thirty minutes but many of the four hundred-or-so chairs are already filled. The music is sweet and unique. Those particular voices. Those places in the room where […]

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