A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark...
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Author: Abley, MarkSummary:
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Author: Abley, MarkSummary:
Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed, unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his...
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Author: Szumigalski, AnneSummary:
Edited by Mark Abley; Preface by Hilary Clark; Afterword by Mark Abley
” … one of Canada’s major poets. The audacity – the courage – of her imagination teaches us, gives us our better...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: Abley, MarkSummary:
Along with the finest pieces from his three previous books, often in revised form, The Tongues of Earth includes 20 new poems. Known as a writer of place, in The Tongues of Earth Abley extends his...
Genre: Canadian poetry -
Author: League of Canadian PoetsSummary:
A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Essays, Literary arts -
Author: Souaid, Carolyn Marie, Farkas, EndreSummary:
"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times. Where else in Canada, perhaps even the world, do...
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Author: Szumigalski, Anne, Abley, MarkSummary:
Collected for the first time, the most powerful writing, poetry and otherwise, created by Anne Szumigalski, Governor General's Award-winning poet from Saskatchewan.
Anne Szumigalski,...
Genre: Canadian poetry