Monthly Archives: June 2015

Grief’s Geology – On Newfoundland’s East Coast Trail with E.J. Pratt and Gerard Manley Hopkins (so to speak!)

June 18, 2015 – 3:30 pm

                            As I walked along the cliff edges of Newfoundland’s East Coast Trail a few days ago […]

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Amounts to Nothing Short of Cultural Genocide – Justice Murray Sinclair

June 7, 2015 – 8:58 pm

Today I am going to break an unwritten protocol: not to use my blog to showcase my own poems. The reason: my emotional reaction to the release of the Canadian […]

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A Clearer Way to See – The Shared Poetic Vision of Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane

June 2, 2015 – 11:02 am

Yesterday, fleece under my sports jacket, I sat in Montreal with a few thousand others in a gargantuan white tent and listened to the convocation address at McGill University’s Spring […]

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