MTLS

Canadian literary supplement encompassing all genres of writing; visual arts, author interviews, book printing process, literary photography, and spoken word

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Each bee must be her own queen,
not live in a colony.
Burrow in the ground along a path
or build the nest in a dead plant stem
or stack of empty flowerpots. https://t.co/mNxrNsIVAz

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Sweet sadness of surrender
when I know what you want
and you know what I want

and I’ve decided to give in
before you’re finished arguing.
https://t.co/Omzji68JAx

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Elagabalus was well-aware of the rumoured plots to assassinate him. He kept poisons in a vial around his throat along with his jewels and an array of charms and amulets. He joked festively about the silk cords he matched to his dresses... https://t.co/tsaDXuQKdW

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And despite Roland Barthes’ dictum that the author is dead, the text is still a synecdoche for the author’s writing hand. https://t.co/7M9VDv4DNZ

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the ideological quarrel between the critic and the writer as far as meaning and intentionality go, is legendary –even though both must work together. https://t.co/7M9VDv4DNZ

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Safia Fazlul’s second novel, The Red One, focuses on Nisha, a beautiful and desperately unhappy young woman. Married to a rich man, Nisha wants for nothing material, but her life is controlled by her domineering husband, Azar, and the expectations of... https://t.co/IZhhCNjTeF

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... Our only wish was to write, to be good writers, to play with aesthetics or just tell a story, and here we were, twenty years old, and summoned to save Africa! (Cazenave and Célérier 2011, 97). https://t.co/IdUZNtv2UX

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Such democratic lies are cocooned in the ideological power of imperialising art and in unwitting collusion of the colonial subject or former colonial subject’s artmaking as patronised by cultural imperialisms https://t.co/IdUZNtv2UX

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Decolonial Aesthetics and the African Writer:
"Achebe mined his powerlessness and colonial objecthood to become a subject of his own history"
https://t.co/ouIZrGUOak

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2. Kigali Morn’
humanity in choreographed droves
arrive from homes in hills and slopes
to thrive in urban landscapes anew
knitting threads of steely insistence
https://t.co/MmFsU3Sfz4

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A little oven-delayed, MTLS issue #27 is finally baked and has popped out with a great aroma. Poetry, fiction and more. Editorial on the relationship between African literature and ideology. See https://t.co/UmlOVASGkV

In This Issue
•Tade Aina
•George Elliott Clarke

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Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Issue 27 on the boil. Out soon! Watch this space.

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1890 – Texas

His past was now catching up with him and threatening the one person he cared most about. This couldn’t be happening.  He knew what he would have to do to keep her safe, and that would be the most painful thing ever: leaving. https://t.co/xYis5b7cP5

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Poetry Review
Canticles II (MMXIX)
by George Elliott Clarke
Guernica Editions,
2019.
In a 2022 text, George Elliott Clarke calls his Canticles series “an expected six-volume epic…that begins with the survey of two millennia of oppressive history”.

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When she asked him why his pool of friends dried up, he replied that it was probably because he didn’t have an Xbox. https://t.co/xTVRqtWv7T

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@ddialogues H.W.: It very deeply influenced it – both Toronto, as well as my time working in New York City and Los Angeles as a film producer. Although there is little actual violence in the novel, a Hitchcockian sense of threat looms large. https://t.co/cgvefwDzyu

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Submit work towards issue 27, forthcoming this summer to [email protected]

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See issue # 26 at https://t.co/nClWO8doj2

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I will be sounding off at the creative Symposia with other poets: https://t.co/pnSrOhnYpA

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The cultural critiques dip into various topics, such as the mess of American politics (Trump), the horror of the African slave trade and its effects, the Arab Spring, and Nelson Mandela. In “Charlie Hebdo’s Ghost,” Ede argues for a different use of...
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