Clive Doucet
Clive Doucet. An Acadian writer living in Ottawa, Clive Doucet is the author of several books, including My Grandfathers Cape Breton, which has been popular for fifteen years in New Brunswick schools, and The Priests Boy, which was read on CBC Radios Between the Covers. The Bishops Candlesticks, from The Priests Boy 鴇2), appears by permission of Black Moss Press.
Gifts to Last
Christmas a-glitter, Christmas on a shoestring. Christmas wrecked. Christmas salvaged. Christmas in city, village and country, in church and shopping mall and barn -- they're all here, in stories by the best writers in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Walter Learning's Christmas treat opens with "Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves," from Anne of Gree …
Looking for Henry
Looking for Henry is a long poem sequence which, through its search for "missing" Métis painter Henry Letendre, becomes a search for self, for history and for the intricate weave of Métis, Acadian and Micmac destinies and dispossessions.
Notes From Exile
What it means to be a people without a nation is one of the more haunting problems of our times. In the twentieth century, this has been an immense issue for Jews, for the Romanies, and for African-Americans; it has been a question for Acadians for more than 350 years.
In 1755, in retribution for their refusal to bear arms, all Acadians were deporte …
Urban Meltdown
In 1950, only thirty percent of the world's population lived in cities. By 2007, the planet's population has now doubled and today, as many people live in cities as populated the entire planet in 1950. Eighty percent of the planet's greenhouse gases are created by these energy-intensive urban centers. Thus, the key to creating climate change soluti …