Interim Editor’s Message
I worried for books in the new isolation normal, competing as never before for attention amongst the lure of everything shiny and digital. I needn’t have. Humans. They’re filled with surprises.
Editor’s Message
True confession: four years ago, I moved from Waterloo, Ontario, to Halifax. With me came the naive belief that every place in Canada was mostly the same. How wrong I was. This windswept, hurricane-prone East Coast and its craggy, seemingly limitless shoreline is anything but. Here lives an intricately connected holding ground for raw, unadulterated, infinitely creative writing talent, informed by place and plentiful enough to…
If you can’t play the fiddle, you have to tell a story
Linden MacIntrye shared with ABT’s editor his thoughts on Atlantic Canada’s storytelling, and writing about home.
Voices carry
George Elliott Clarke, in his unique brand of spoken word, Africadian poetry, explores a personal subject, his great-aunt Portia White, an internationally celebrated opera contralto. His lyrical ode to her life and work is a celebration of love. He shared with ABT editor, Karalee Clerk, thoughts about his great-aunt, Portia White, and his family’s incredible creative DNA.
Robert Hunt’s Trilogy of Passion for Brazil Street, St. John’s
The resonant rhythms of the past, told simply and without artifice