Writings - Maple Tree Literary Supplement -issue17

Paki Lover Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe . Like countless children before and after...

Another Burden A traveler almost always goes forth, along the way that he is forced to travel or...

Fiction Review Amanda Tripp Strip by Andrew Binks Gibsons, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2013 256...

Genre-Queer, Fiction and Poetry Review Candace Fertile The Rude Story of English by...

Poetry, Pop Culture, Art and History Reviews George Elliott Clarke Afloat by John Reibetanz London,...

Fiction Review Justin Pfefferle Accusation by Catherine Bush Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2013 355...

Good Morning Marsha’s eyes opened. A grey light poured from the window. One of her hands was on Darrel’s bar...

The Place beneath Falling Stars (novel except) My grandmother stood differently after she saw the...

Jasmine Season on Hamra Street (Novel excerpt ) Amal, Anzjabal, Lebanon 1965 I danced on Hamra...

Sungitha I met Sungitha the way I never want to meet a girl – through a friend of my mother’s. The...

Moving On I was never active politically as a student or in my early working years in South Africa....

With E.R. Braithwaite Memories, feelings: about how he’d visited us, because it was all about the w...

A Balkan Passage I In early years, as one goes through a book with many pictures, the anticipation...

*Mogadishu Blues (For Zuleikha) By Wale Adebanwi “Soomaali been ma maahmaah do ” [Somalis don...

Of Sonia My heart-woman is...

Biography of My Father, the Printer I swept, the day after my father died, a thousand pounds of...

Who Then Ever Will Bring Morning? At 6 am God used the belfry. The sweep, sonorous of angels, skinned...

Behind the buttercups Behind the buttercup bramble The pines stood tall and straight The crunch of...