M.T. Kelly
M.T. Kelly is a Canadian novelist, poet and journalist. He won the Governor General's Award for his novel, A Dream Like Mine (re-issued as Exile's Canadian Classics series in 2009).
A Dream Like Mine
A Dream Like Mine is a journey into the contemporary issue of radical and violent solutions to stop the destruction of the environment. It is also a journey into the unconscious, and into the nightmare of history, beauty and terror that are the awesome landscape of the Native Canadian spirit world.The story is fictional but set in the real situatio …
Down River
These are forceful poems of grace, grit, and determination, poems of the city, poems of the countryside. They not only have their own Kelly music, but that rarest of qualities – a music between the lines.Kelly’s prose memoir and his short story not only have the authentic feel for childhood and all its arbitrary shaping family forces, but a tru …
With My Father
In this novel, M.T.Kelly – the master of a clear intense prose authentic to the feel of the streets and the urban city –tells the story of Robbie Blackstone, a sixteen-year-old boxer about to turn pro, and his relationships with his mother Lucy, her boyfriend Shiner, his trainers Stu and Jimmie, and Rocco, an ex-contender for the world champion …
