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A Poem Knows Where it's Going (Walking with Words)
I believe that a poem knows where it’s going, often before I do, and well before it has arrived fully formed with its journey complete. There’s nothing particularly mystical about this; it merely...
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The novelist Russell Smith, normally insightful in his Globe and Mail columns, lurched into illogic in February when he decried the use of freelance editors. I’m sure that Smith would concede that...
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Chinese-food addicts like me will know the queasiness that, when you enter a Chinese restaurant, has nothing to do with food and everything to do with language. Splayed across the walls are sheets of...
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On Writing Violence - An Addendum
I’ve been receiving a lot of positive feedback and some questions about one of my first posts for Open Book, “On Writing Violence.” One reader, Susan, asked me in the comments about how this all might...
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