Archives /// Nina Lassam
April 27th, 2009
One Book: My father’s pocket watch
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Editors Note: Spacing is pleased to be participating in the Toronto Public Library's One Book program again this year. This month the library hopes the whole city will start reading Loyalty Management, a poetry book by Glenn Downie, set in part in the Junction neighbourhood. Throughout the month Spacing Toronto will present a series of posts exploring the book.
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Downie begins his poem with a quote from poet Thomas McGrath, a Left Wing writer from the United ...
April 17th, 2009
One Book: Trees in Toronto
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Editors Note: Spacing is pleased to be participating in the Toronto Public Library's One Book program again this year. This month the library hopes the whole city will start reading Loyalty Management, a poetry book by Glenn Downie, set in part in the Junction neighbourhood. Throughout the month Spacing Toronto will present a series of posts exploring the book.
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"Butternut."
Messy tree says Mike
who cut his down years ago
He shows me his butternut stump
like it's some sort of lesson
like ...
April 16th, 2009
One Book: Fear of wallpaper — a novena to William Morris
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Editors Note: Spacing is pleased to be participating in the Toronto Public Library's One Book program again this year. This month the library hopes the whole city will start reading Loyalty Management, a poetry book by Glenn Downie, set in part in the Junction neighbourhood. Throughout the month Spacing Toronto will present a series of posts exploring the book.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -William Morris was a designer and publisher who inspired the Arts & Crafts ...

















