LCP archives

National Poetry Month

Communicating Vessels

by Beatriz Hausner for National Poetry Month, April 2020 At its most essential, translation is the transfer of textual or verbal objects from one language to another. Literary translation can be more readily compared to a kind of alchemy, where the contents of one vessel are poured into another vessel, and back again, to create…

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Kamal Parmar — It's Only Words

Listen to Kamal Parmar read her poem “It’s Only Words” as a medium to offer hope and healing during these difficult times. Nanaimo poet and writer, Kamal Parmar has been passionately involved in writing since high school and University years. Her genre is poetry and creative non-fiction and she dabbles frequently with Haiku poetry. Her…

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Poetry and the World

by Mary Lee Bragg for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Anyone who has travelled to Portugal or spent time with Portugese people has heard fado – the guitar, the long melodic lines, the half sob of songs full of saudade. Fado is defined by saudade, a nostalgia that goes beyond a sense of loss to…

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LCP50: Celebrating 50 years

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