If you can’t play the fiddle, you have to tell a story
byLinden MacIntrye shared with ABT’s editor his thoughts on Atlantic Canada’s storytelling, and writing about home.
Q&A
Voices carry
byGeorge 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.
Author to Author
byshalan joudry and Katie Vautour discuss Indigenous and settler science and worldviews, animal representation, imagery and form in their respective new works
Author to Author: Lisa Moore Interviews Donna Morrissey
byJaysus, Lisa, your questions read like poems … my who? Painter-twin?? Ahem, of course, oh yes, absolutely, William Turner! (Quickly googling here) … Ah! Yes, yes, The Painter of Light … light is everything, everywhere, even in our brightest hour we are grovelling for the light…
Noah Richler on Political Branding, Provincialism and White Male Candidates
by“As voters we are behaving more and more like our neighbours to the South, with their presidential system, and we vote for one leader or the other.”
Teaching Children About the Mi’kmaq
by“I think it is clear that there is not a whole lot of relevant cultural information in the school systems.”
An interview with memoirist and horse lover Marjorie Simmins
by…regular, ordinary people such as myself could dream big, and make the dreams come true.