{"id":1724,"date":"2012-09-19T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:56:05","slug":"writings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.6.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/\" title=\"Essays\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Book-Open.png\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Essays\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/\" title=\"Essays\">Essays<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/katie-lynes\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Katie-Lynes-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/katie-lynes\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes\">Writings \/ Essay: Katie Lynes<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Paki Lover \r\nEeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe . Like countless children before and after...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/la-vonda-r-staples\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/LA-Vonda-Staples-replacement-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/essay\/la-vonda-r-staples\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples\">Writings \/ Essay: La Vonda R. Staples<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Another Burden   \r\nA traveler almost always goes forth, along the way that he is forced to travel or...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/\" title=\"Reviews\">Reviews<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/amanda-tripp\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Amanda Tripp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Amanda-Tripp-copy-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Amanda Tripp\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/amanda-tripp\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Amanda Tripp\">Writings \/ Reviews: Amanda Tripp<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Fiction Review \r\nAmanda Tripp  \r\n\r\nStrip \r\n\r\nby Andrew Binks\r\n\r\nGibsons, BC: Nightwood Editions, 2013\r\n\r\n256...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/candace-fertile\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Candace Fertile\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/no_photo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Candace Fertile\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/candace-fertile\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Candace Fertile\">Writings \/ Reviews: Candace Fertile<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Genre-Queer, Fiction and Poetry Review \r\nCandace Fertile\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe Rude Story of English \r\nby...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/george-elliott-clarke\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: George Elliott Clarke\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/George-Elliot-Clarke-150x142.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Reviews: George Elliott Clarke\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/george-elliott-clarke\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: George Elliott Clarke\">Writings \/ Reviews: George Elliott Clarke<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Poetry, Pop Culture, Art and History Reviews   \r\nGeorge Elliott Clarke\r\n\r\nAfloat  \r\n\r\nby John Reibetanz\r\nLondon,...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/justin-pfefferle\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Justin Pfefferle\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Justin-Pfefferle-New-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Justin Pfefferle\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/reviews\/justin-pfefferle\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Reviews: Justin Pfefferle\">Writings \/ Reviews: Justin Pfefferle<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Fiction Review \r\nJustin Pfefferle\r\n\r\nAccusation \r\nby Catherine Bush\r\nFredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2013\r\n355...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/\" title=\"Fiction\">Fiction<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/lisa-young\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Lisa Young\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Lisa-Young-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Lisa Young\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/lisa-young\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Lisa Young\">Writings \/ Fiction: Lisa Young<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Good Morning \r\nMarsha\u2019s eyes opened. A grey light poured from the window. One of her hands was on Darrel\u2019s bar...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/shannon-joyce-prince\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Shannon Joyce Prince\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Shannon-Joyce-Prince-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Shannon Joyce Prince\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/shannon-joyce-prince\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Shannon Joyce Prince\">Writings \/ Fiction: Shannon Joyce Prince<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">The Place beneath Falling Stars \r\n(novel except) \r\n\r\nMy grandmother stood differently after she saw the...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/sonia-saikaley\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Sonia Saikaley\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Sonia-Saikaley-1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Sonia Saikaley\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/sonia-saikaley\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Sonia Saikaley\">Writings \/ Fiction: Sonia Saikaley<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Jasmine Season on Hamra Street \r\n(Novel excerpt )\r\n\r\nAmal, Anzjabal, Lebanon 1965\r\n\r\nI danced on Hamra...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/nirushan-sivagnanasuntharam\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Nirushan Sivagnanasuntharam\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Nirushan-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Nirushan Sivagnanasuntharam\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/fiction\/nirushan-sivagnanasuntharam\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Fiction: Nirushan Sivagnanasuntharam\">Writings \/ Fiction: Nirushan Sivagnanasuntharam<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Sungitha \r\nI met Sungitha the way I never want to meet a girl \u2013 through a friend of my mother\u2019s. The...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/\" title=\"Creative Non-Fiction\">Creative Non-Fiction<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/isme-bennie\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Isme-Bennie-copy-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/isme-bennie\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Isme Bennie<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Moving On \r\nI was never active politically as a student or in my early working years in South Africa....<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/cyril-dabydeen\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Cyril-Dabydeen-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/cyril-dabydeen\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Cyril Dabydeen<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">With E.R. Braithwaite \r\nMemories, feelings: about how he\u2019d visited us, because it was all about the w...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/dey-chaudhury-prosenjit\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Prosenjit Dey Chaudhury\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/no_photo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Prosenjit Dey Chaudhury\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/dey-chaudhury-prosenjit\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Prosenjit Dey Chaudhury\">Writings \/ Creative Non-Fiction: Prosenjit Dey Chaudhury<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">A Balkan Passage \r\n\r\nI\r\n&nbsp;\r\nIn early years, as one goes through a book with many pictures, the anticipation...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/\" title=\"Poetry\">Poetry<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/wale-adebanwi\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Adebanwi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Wale-Adebanwi-pic-copy-1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Adebanwi\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/wale-adebanwi\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Adebanwi\">Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Adebanwi<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">*Mogadishu Blues \r\n(For Zuleikha)\r\n\r\nBy Wale Adebanwi\r\n\r\n\u201cSoomaali been ma maahmaah do \u201d\r\n[Somalis don...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/luca-xifona-2\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/no_photo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/luca-xifona-2\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona\">Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Of Sonia \r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My heart-woman is...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/stephen-brockwell\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Stephen Brockwell\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Stephen-Brockwell-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Stephen Brockwell\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/stephen-brockwell\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Stephen Brockwell\">Writings \/ Poetry: Stephen Brockwell<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Biography of My Father, the Printer \r\nI swept, the day after my father died,\r\n\r\na thousand pounds of...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><div class=\"page-list-ext-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/yemi-soneye\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/Yemi-Soneye-pic-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye\" \/><\/a><\/div> <h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/yemi-soneye\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye\">Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Who Then Ever Will Bring Morning? \r\nAt 6 am God used the belfry.\r\nThe sweep, sonorous of angels,\r\nskinned...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/writings\/poetry\/nico-mara-mckay\/\" title=\"Writings \/ Poetry: Nico Mara-McKay\">Writings \/ Poetry: Nico Mara-McKay<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Behind the buttercups \r\nBehind the buttercup bramble\r\nThe pines stood tall and straight\r\nThe crunch of...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}