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Gerard Beirne
March 4, 2014 10:03 AM
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The Town of Sackville has announced the forthcoming appointment of Marilyn Lerch as Sackville’s Poet Laureate, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, with her first official appearance at the Mayor’s New Year’s levee at the Sackville Town Hall. Born in 1936 in East Chicago, Indiana, Lerch holds degrees from Indiana University and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She taught high school English in Gary, Indiana, and Washington, D.C. Lerch has worked in many coalitions for gay rights, and peace with justice. In 1996, Lerch moved to Sackville, and before long, had formed the Sackville Writers' Group and the Roving Poets. She has taught creative writing at Westmorland, Springhill and Dorchester prisons, and is teaching memoir writing through the Tantramar Seniors College. Lerch is a member of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick and served as their president from 2006 to 2010.
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Gerard Beirne
February 6, 2014 6:40 AM
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Fluky kid at bat for the win, pollsters. See here: I like the encapsulation: From a young age Lee D. Thompson lived and breathed baseball even if he didn’t take to the sport at first. Trouble was, ...
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Gerard Beirne
February 5, 2014 3:44 PM
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R.M. Vaughan is a man of strong opinions—and someone who has leveraged myriad media to articulate his viewpoints. A veteran critic who’s written about arts and culture for newspapers and magazines across Canada and internationally, he’s also the author of multiple plays, several books of poetry and two novels, and as an independent filmmaker he has more than a dozen credits to his name.
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Gerard Beirne
February 5, 2014 10:31 AM
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Owl’s Nest Bookstore, 390 Queen St., Fredericton, New Brunswick. “If nothing else, we add some strangeness to the community,” says Debbie of Owl’s Nest Books, Fredericton’s principal secondhand bookstore. And indeed, with its endless rooms and motley décor, the store glows...
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February 2, 2014 4:53 PM
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Gerard Beirne
January 31, 2014 1:45 PM
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The next odd sundays at Molly’s event, Fredericton’s longest-‐running, semi-‐monthly, persistently-‐hyphenated, poetry-‐reading series, will take place this Sunday (February 2nd) at 2 pm with featured poets, Sharon McCartney and Ross Leckie.
So if you are in Fredericton this weekend, drop into Molly's Coffee House at 554 Queen on Sunday and 2 pm to enjoy some poetry and a warm drink!
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Gerard Beirne
January 30, 2014 1:42 PM
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I am a long-standing admirer of John Steffler's work. I find his beautifully crafted poems, with their deft use of language, visceral and epiphanic. The senses cannot help but come alive reading lines like "the tramped grass steamy as seaweed in the migraine / of noon" or "the bone flakes encrusting a bracelet /
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Gerard Beirne
January 30, 2014 1:00 PM
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January 28, 2014 7:24 PM
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Will is Shane Neilson’s debut collection of short fiction. The book ranges from straightforward East Coast depictions of alcoholism and frustrated farming told in dense, lyric prose, to experimental works that play overtly
with language and form. In Will, a boy is beaten by his father; another father cares for his epileptic son;
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Gerard Beirne
January 16, 2014 10:58 AM
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January 12, 2014 3:27 PM
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January 9, 2014 11:03 AM
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In this interview, Fraser talks about his fifth short story collection, BLISS and other stories (Broken Jaw Press), released in the fall of 2013. What inspired/motivated you to put this book together?RF: I started working on the collection in 2011 and finished it a year later. Before this I'd spent four years on my novel THE MADNESS OF YOUTH, and was in a mood to do some things I wouldn't be so long getting to the end of. I could finish a story in a matter of days or at most a few weeks, and then move on to another one. It was a pleasant change after being tied to a single narrative for so long.
Once I'd got the book finished, however, I did notice many of them were about New Brunswickers leaving home for the big city and coming back again—what they did while away and what they were like when they returned, those that did return. There was that much of a common thread.
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January 8, 2014 3:13 PM
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February 7, 2014 2:25 PM
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February 5, 2014 4:09 PM
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February 5, 2014 3:35 PM
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The Tree Reading Series is one of the longest running series in Canada.
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Gerard Beirne
February 2, 2014 6:31 PM
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Gerard Beirne
February 1, 2014 9:57 PM
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Magda Trocmé (1901-1996) was the Italian-born wife of Reverend André Trocmé (1901-1971), a French pastor deeply involved in the social gospel movement that saw Christianity embedded in progressive political struggles. Together, they worked heroically, and under dangerous circumstances, to prevent the deportation of thousands of people to Nazi concentration camps.
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January 30, 2014 4:30 PM
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January 30, 2014 1:04 PM
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January 30, 2014 12:52 PM
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A lot of people have come to me, asking how I can read so much, or saying they hate reading, and only read when they have to. They can’t seem to understand what literature can do to a person. They don’t comprehend what a good book can do. Great books, especially old ones with thick, yellowing, pages, open doors to us, which could never have been opened otherwise.
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Gerard Beirne
January 24, 2014 7:23 PM
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I saved The Friends of Meager Fortune, the second novel I've read by Canadian Catholic author David Adams Richards, for the polar vortex. If anything can make Boston in January seem warm, it's this...
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Gerard Beirne
January 14, 2014 1:33 PM
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In these two poems: public history, mythology, desire and personal loss all collide and thrum alongside one another. In an interview, John Barton said, I often play around at the extremities of met...
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Gerard Beirne
January 10, 2014 1:52 PM
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Gerard Beirne
January 9, 2014 10:56 AM
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You have been so patient all these years
while we pretended you were not there.
At Thanksgiving, at Christmas, at weddings,
funerals, graduations, every August
when we rented a cottage by the sea,
we...
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