ISSUE 24
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Amatoritsero Ede
The Nasty picture of Hurricane Dorian
Oscar Wilde wrote, what for the English society of his day, was a ‘wild’ story. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is about a romantic and narcissistic protagonist of the … Read the whole text
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Esi Edugyan
The Making of Canadian Literature
(Scholar-Poet, Amatoritsero Ede, in conversation with Esi Edugyan, Novelist and Short story writer)
Amatoritsero Ede: Esi, we at MTLS are happy to be having a second chat with you. We just felt that … Read the whole text
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George Elliott Clarke
I – Book of Ruth
1. Famine devastated Israel—
despite the Peace, Order, and Good Government
the Judges had conjured up.2. (Famine is a sanitizing sewer:
It’s as scouring as a waterfall,
but as scourging as poison gas.… Read the whole text -
Natalya Bartling
The Poems of Apricity
December is my favourite month of the year. Every time I go outside to breathe in the fresh winter air and wander around the city, I reflect on the time when I was a child. … Read the whole text
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Ewa Mazierska
Permanent Residents
Ilona and Keith fell in love with the house at first sight. Truth be told, it didn’t have the amenities Keith was looking for, namely, an outside shed to put his bikes in and another one … Read the whole text
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Russell Thornton
Professionals
Those two men with leaf blowers,
the harness straps over their shoulders and around their waists,
protective ear muffs on, off in their world,
they are professionals, they work in tandem,
and perform a glad dance across the … Read the whole text -
Miasol Equibar
Give it Time
If lightly discarded feathers
and a glossy, virgin-white flower
fall at my feet as I pass by
I might not cast an arched shadow
of a doubt
trapped in a corner, tied around my ankles.Each … Read the whole text
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Fraser Sutherland
Father
Recalling my father, who tried to stop the Industrial Revolution
by sticking his hand into a balky combine, thereby shedding
flesh and blood, lopping fingers into gnarled stubs.
Or, in his sixties, kneeling and hammering sheets of aluminum
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Jude Cowan Montague
Of Gods, Books and Poetry
A conversation between Jude Cowan Montague and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
Introit: Kola Tunbosun met Jude for the first time in October 2018—at Pembroke College, Oxford, to be precise—where he had gone to present his debut … Read the whole text
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Johanna Van Zanten
My Conversion to becoming a Writer
At eight I was a devout little girl that swallowed hook-line-and-sinker what I was taught in my parents’ small congregation of ultra-Christians. By age 12 I had lost all belief in fairy tales including … Read the whole text