Issue #15 | May – Aug 2013 | ISSN 1916-341X

Maple Tree Literary Supplement - Issue15

Literature and the Arts

Editorial
Writings
Spokenword
Roundtable
Impressions
Literary Images
Art

Literary Images

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Michael Ondaatje reads from his work.

Michael Ondaatje reads from his work.

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Kingston Literary Festival (KLF) 2012

© Bernard Clarke

Gallery

John W. Macdonald is the unofficial photographer of Ottawa’s literary Scene. Although not a writer like Carl Van Vechten, he is still to Ottawa what the former was to the Harlem Renaissance in terms of visual arts. His lenses are indispensable to the archiving of Ottawa’s unfolding scribal history.

Poetry

Isle

Luca Xifona

No far-fetched fragrance was your familiar
Amid Rodos’ dark shambles of mountains
By that Trojan ocean, where first we met,
Dishing wine in every vintage tavern.
I savoured that paralysis of drink—
Friendly poison—watching white waves banner
The spring-tide beach, because we were mere friends,
And I desired—though wed—a darkling tryst.

Fiction

Whispers

Claudia Del Balso

Today Dr. Weiss brings Celia to where it all started: the church she had defaced a week earlier. Unlike that turbulent day, her thoughts are in sequence like rosary beads… or so he presumes. As she stands in the garden a few feet away from the massive double doors, she tells the doctor, “I remember a dark room.”

“You mean the cell,” says the doctor.

“I signed a paper...” Celia pauses, “Or maybe not.”

Art Quote

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

Edgar Degas

Art

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Artist - William Patrick

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