Spiritbookword

My Writings

Thoughts on Spirituality

• John Robert Colombo's Selected Quotes from my Work
  
• Shakespeare on Politics: How the Bard understood what makes Trump tick
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, August 29, 2019.
• The Religious Imagination
  Excerpt from The Glass Art of Sarah Hall
• Notes on Wayne Allan's Sculpture
  Originally pubished in Grail, Volume 10, Issue 4
• Ted Rettig's Stones
  Originally published in Grail, Volume 14, Issue 2
• Thomas Merton as Public Intellectual
  From a talk given at the Canadian Memorial United Church, Vancouver, on January 20, 2003 to the Thomas Merton Society of Canada
• Who's Gonna Take Away His License to Kill?
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, May 27, 2003
• How I Fell in Love With Japan
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Saturday, April 26, 2003.
• The Wind Makes Ireland an Enchanting Place
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, February 15, 2003.
• These are Strange Days We're Living In
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, October 16, 2002.
• The Ruins of His Mind
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, September 28, 2001
• Tossing and Turning
  Originally published in the Globe and Mail, Friday, October 22, 1999.
• Meditation on Stone (Edward Gibney)
  Originally Published in Grail, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 1997
• An Interview with B.W. Powe
  Originally published in Grail, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 1997
• Farewell to a Monk
  Originally published in the Antigonish Review, #108, Winter 1997
• Monk Dreaming the World
  Originally published in Brick, #55, Fall 1996

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Book Reviews

• The Strength of Hyphens: Mary Gordon on Thomas Merton
  Originally Published in Dialogue Magazine, Volume 32-4, Summer 2019
• Rave Review for B.W. Powe's "the charge in the global membrane" by J.S. Porter
  First published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, June 11, 2019
• The Divine and Embodied Feminine: a Dialogue
  Originally published in Works and Conversations, January 18, 2018
• There's Someone You Need to Meet -- Dorothy Day
  Originally Published in Dialogue Magazine, Summer 2018
• Book Review: B.W. Powe, Where Seas and Fables Meet: Parables, Aphorisms, Fragments, Thought (Toronto: Guernica, 2015)
  Originally published in Guernica Editions, May 5, 2015
• CBC's Canada Reads - What's Missing?
  Originally published in the Nancy Duffy Show, January 30, 2014
• Duras
  Originally published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, Spring/Summer 2011
• Hemingway: A Maker of Small, Fragile Things
  Originally published in Hamilton Arts & Letters, Issue 3.1, Spring 2010
• Alberto in Storyland
  Originally published The Globe and Mail, October 20, 2007
• Poets as proseurs
  Originally published in the Globe and Mail, August 18, 2007
• A Canadian visionary: a new book digs into the influences on Grant's thought.
  Originally published in Literary Review of Canada, 2007
• Only interconnect . . .
  Originally published the Globe and Mail, February 18, 2006
• The Saintly Muse (Leonard Cohen, Allan Greer)
  Originally published in the October 2005 edition of The Literary Review of Canada
• Moving Targets (Margaret Atwood)
  Originally published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 2, 2004.
• The Left Bank of Montreal (Brian Moore, Mordecai Richler, William Weintraub & Joel Yanofsky)
  Originally published in the Literary Review of Canada, Vol 12, #2, 2004
• Requiem for a Suicidal Genius (Gordon Sheppard & HA!)
  Originally published in the Literary Review of Canada, Vol 11, #8, 2003
• On Re-Reading Henry James in the Late Afternoon of my Life (Henry James)
  Originally published in The Hamilton Spectator, December 17, 2002
• In 1850, the American Republic takes a wrong turn
  Originally published in The Hamilton Spectator, Wednesday, April 10, 2002
• Atwood, light and dark (Margaret Atwood)
  Originally published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, March 23, 2002.
• On Going to Hear Mavis Gallant (Mavis Gallant)
  Originally published in the Hamilton Spectator, September 3, 1999.
• The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (Robert Fulford)
  Originally published in the Ottawa Citizen, February 12, 1999.
• At Play in the Land of Language (Dennis Lee)
  Originally publiished in the Globe and Mail, Saturday, October 17, 1998.

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Poems and Reflections

• Making a Mark
  
• Saudade
  
• Joy
  
• Thomas Merton, Superabundantly Alive (Article)
  Originally Appeared in Hamilton Arts and Letters, 2010
• Muriel Rukeyser: In each word, a storm (Article)
  Originally appeared in Hamilton Arts and Letters, 2010
• Stone Skips (poem)
  
• Wordways (meditation)
  
• Words From the Chief (poem)
  
• ...from The Thomas Merton Poems, Moonstone Press, 1988
  
• Cheryl (poem)
  
• One Word (poem)
  
• Word II (and other poems)
  
• Raking Leaves (poem & comment)
  
• Our Lady of the Stars (poem)
  
• Reading Woundedly (poem)
  
• Reading Poetry By Heart (article)
  Originally pubished in the Ottawa Citizen, September 19, 1999.
• Making a Sentence (Article)
  Originally published by Indirections, Vol. 17, No. 3, September, 1992
• Words I
  Originally published in Canadian Literature, Fall 1986

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Pound of Flesh

• Waiting & Longing
  Aug 6, 2005
• Strange, Stranger
  Jun 3, 2005
• Raiding the Arts for Poems
  May 1, 2005
• Big Books/Little Books
  Mar 3, 2005
• Why I Turn to Thomas Merton
  Feb 6, 2005
• Story
  Jan 5, 2005
• The UnPi-ing of Pi*
  Nov 1, 2004
• Awakenings
  Oct 6, 2004
• Why Read?
  Sep 5, 2004
• Prayer
  Aug 4, 2004
• Where Poets Were Kings: An Appreciation of Michael Ondaatje's Handwriting
  Jul 1, 2004
• Ararat
  Jun 1, 2004
• Emmylou Harris: A Story in a Song
  May 1, 2004
• The Search For My Word
  Apr 1, 2004
• Talking to Strangers
  Mar 14, 2004

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