I have been interested in Trakl’s work for several years now, stimulated by several essays in the American literary press, the provenance of which I, alas, have forgotten.What does stay in particular is the poem De Profundis, which is both remarkable and devastating.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiap8pmxagMichael Hamburger’s translation is this:There is a stubble field on which a black rain falls. […]
Hendrik Slegtenhorst
Curvature – Brockton Point – Stanley Park Seawall, Vancouver
The point is named after Francis Brockton, the senior engineer aboard the HMS Plumper, a Royal Navy survey sloop commanded by Captain George Henry Richards. A plumper is something that plunges abruptly into water. Brockton discovered coal nearby, and Richards named the waters Coal Harbour. From the early 1870s until Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery opened […]
Black Earth – the Holocaust as History and Warning – Timothy Snyder (2015)
We tend to establish an internal narrative of events to facilitate what we believe is our understanding of things. Almost invariably it is not only complete but also hermetic, and exclusionary of information that would require revision of the internal narrative. We tend to view the Second World War, in the European theatre, as a […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by John Ferguson, Chief Administrative Officer, Municipal County of Annapolis, NS
John Ferguson is the chief administrative officer of the Municipal County of Annapolis, along the Fundy shore of Nova Scotia. Until recently he had been my successor as the chief administrative officer of the Town of St. Stephen, New Brunswick, where he had chosen to take on professional municipal life as an appointed official, and […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Kadrush Radogoshi, Distinguished Kosovar Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
I met Kadrush Radogoshi through my own literary activities in Edmonton, and we have spent time together in his acquainting me of his biography, oeuvre, stylistic dispositions and preferences, the awards for and reviews of his work, and the history of his selection of Edmonton as the Canadian city to reside in. Mr. Radogoshi’s work […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Henk Guittart, Founder, Artistic Director, and Violist of the Schoenberg Quartet and the Schoenberg Ensemble
Henk Guittart is well known as the founder, artistic director, and violist of the Schoenberg Quartet and the Schoenberg Ensemble, which performed and recorded internationally from 1976 to 2009. He has also been associated with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Deutsche Bachsolisten, Consortium Classicum, the Stuttgart Piano Trio, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Royal Conservatory […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Dr. James Delgado, Director of Maritime Heritage, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC
Jim Delgado and I met in 1996, when I was appointed Executive Director of the Vancouver Museum, and he the distinguished Executive Director of the neighbouring Vancouver Maritime Museum, a position he held for 15 years. In 2006, he moved to Texas as Executive Director, and later President and CEO, of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology; and, […]
Caravaggio’s Dagger – Review by Derek Brooks, Executive Director, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB
Derek Brooks and I met in the spring of 2012 when an event of the annual Edmonton Poetry Festival that I participated in was held at Harcourt House. I recall that the reading required the poets to sit on chairs arranged in an oblong, with the convener, Edmonton’s first poet laureate, Alice Major, positioned at […]