Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
It is 50 years this autumn (October 13, 1955) since the Bop and Beat poets of the East Coast (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) and the Ecological Beat poets of the West Coast (Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen) met at Six Gallery in San Francisco. John Suiter,...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
BEYOND BETHUNE: PEOPLE’S POETRY AND MILTON ACORN’S METAPHOR FOR THE CANADIAN FATE Terry Barker, Dewdney: The Canadian...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
What has Easter to do with politics? What has the church to do with the state? What has the sacred to do with the secular? What has justice and peace to do with empires? What has Canada to do with the USA? The Christian understanding of Easter has its roots in...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
“Phyl climbed close to one hundred mountains and made over thirty first ascents, many times being the first woman to reach the summit.” —Phyllis Munday: Mountaineer (2002) p.135 When Phyllis Munday (1894-1990) left this fragile earth our island home, the first...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
A few weeks ago (November 2005), 77-year-old, Noam Chomsky was voted by the British monthly Prospect and Washington-based Foreign Policy as the most important public intellectual alive today. Meanwhile, Maude Barlow, chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, received...
Jun 8, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart
He (Robert Service) was a people’s poet. To the people, he was great. They understood him, and knew any verse carrying the by-line Robert W. Service would be a lilting thing, clear, clean and power packed, beating out a story with a dramatic intensity that made the...
