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LOGO|RIP NOVAL E. BALCH | HISTORY | TITLES | AUTHORS | ORDERS |
CERAMICS | EVENTS | SUBMISSIONS | HOUSE | MALCOLM |
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• A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006; a collection of letters, poems, stories & visual art in memory of Malcolm (Mac) Somerville, by MMLC participants, family & friends]
• The Dog That Wasn't / der Hund der keiner war [Switzerland 1996; an ESL text book project for seniors]
• 3817: gender evocations [St. John's NF 1995; a radio-broadcast MUN class project for students] Audrey M. Ashley: biography, Canadian theatre
• With Love From Butch: A Stratford Actor [for more, please link to www.stratfordfestival.ca, click shopping & books, or peruse the Stratford Festival's Visitors' Guide 2007 pp. 107 & 109]
Norval Balch: poetry, odes in prose [E/EG]
• LOVE.liebesgedichte.
• A Winter in the Life of Bundles Mustardseed
Reg Balch [1894-1994]: photographs photographs for Malcolm's New Brunswick, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard: poetry
• Wind, Frost & Fire
Boz Boswell
Astrid Brunner [Licht]: poetry, short stories, scripts/libretti [EGF] Nowadays she mainly commutes between her two Atlantic Canadian lives, with sporadic excursions into her European past: at French Lake, New Brunswick she lives in close company with her Swiss Calico Cat Ineffable; at ABcp's founding house in Halifax, Nova Scotia she tries to keep up with her Canadian Fluffy Ginger Cat Humphrey d. Cobbler.
• Marlene in Academe: a razzle for Tom Stoppard
• Glass
• RawSilk SoieEcrue RohSeide
• Lies: the Old Man in the Mountains
• Mimosen: die grossen Leiden des Alten S.
• On the Night the Flowers Caught Fire: poems and otherwise words
Hugh A. Cannell
Normand Carrey
Robert Dietz: drama, biography, history, visual art [EG] After seven years as director of Saint Mary's University Art Gallery — during which time an Art Caravan visited schools across the Province and several extension Galleries were established, including one at the Greenwood Air Force Base — Mr. Dietz owned and operated Dresden Galleries in Halifax until his retirement in December 1990. In 1992 he wrote Oath of Allegiance, an autobiographical account of his early youth in Germany during a time when the nation was simmering with political antagonisms. The play Gunner Schmidt at the Crossroads "has been written so that readers and viewers may learn about our past and appreciate the sacrifices made by those who served their countries--knowing about our past is the best insurance for our future."
• Gunner Schmidt at the Crossroads
Magie Dominic MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Kirsty Elliot
MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006]
ISBN 1895466180
Michael Green: drama
• Dreams of a Drunken Quaker: two plays and a rant
voice over in • Marlene in Academe: a razzle for Tom Stoppard
[for more, link to One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre]
Ami Harbin
MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Liane Heller: poetry, literary essays A former newspaper writer, Heller left the Toronto Star in 1984 to devote more time to writing poetry. She supports herself as a full time copy editor at the The Chronicle Herald in Halifax. Heller has just completed a year-long cycle of 365 sonnets and an extended poetic tribute to George Steeves's epic photographic enterprise Excavations.
• Exposures
• 'Essaying the Vault: on the Poetry of Jason Holt'
John Hoben
Jason Holt: poetry
• A Hair's Breadth of Abandon
• Memos to No One
• Feeling Fine in Kafka's Burrow
Sean Howard MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Kim (MacKinnon) Hughes MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Eve Llyndorah: paintings 3 colour paintings, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180; note that #3, Gateway, was especially created for the Malcolm memorial book
Jack MacDonald MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Ian MacLennan MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Rob Roy: MMLC theme & frontispiece photograph [Malcolm]
Lisa Scott
Stephen E. Scott: COVER ART; sketch; photographs [Malcolm]
One probable cause in the development of Stephen's relationship to Mac was a fascination with history and lore, which led to a friendship with noted historian, and friend-in-common, B.J. Grant. After Barrie's demise, this interest was continued with Malcolm, inspired no doubt by another common interest in the odd tipple, and discussions on life and love in general. Stephen is currently living in rural New Brunswick, and, not content to rest on his well earned laurels, is continuing certain Maritime and personal traditions. He is working on perfecting the unobtrusive put-down, and developing acceptable levels of political incorrectness and social rebellion. Recent highlights are insider experiences in Berlin, Germany, and an ongoing exhibition schedule. As Mac was always encouraging and helpful in this artist's career, his support will be missed. Another regret for Stephen is the fact that he will be unable to impress Mac with leather pants, and other displays of worldliness and irreverence. [for more on artist Stephen E. Scott, visit http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/stephen/stephenescott.html]
Jim Snowdon: mots intimes and Malcolm’s last photographic likeness MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Pete Stafford: book design Cambridge Pen & Design's ABcp books: • Canadian Ceramics: a collector's passion [Lakeville Corner / Saint John NB: an NBM & ABcp project for 2007] ISBN 1895466199
• A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm •Relics for an Open Vault [Halifax NS 2005] ISBN 1895466164 •Exposures [Lakeville Corner NB 2003] ISBN 1895466148 •On the Night the Flowers Caught Fire: poems and otherwise words [Lakeville Corner NB 2003] ISBN 1895466172
•Wind, Frost & Fire
•Mimosen: die grossen Leiden des Alten S.
•With Love From Butch: A Stratford Actor
•A Winter in the Life of Bundles Mustardseed
•Lies: the Old Man in the Mountains •Memos to No One [Lakeville Corner NB 1999] ISBN 1895466121
•RawSilk SoieEcrue RohSeide
George Steeves: photography Steeves exhibits principally in northern Europe and Quebec; in 1993 the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa mounted a retrospective exhibition. In 2004 Montreal film director Etienne Desrosiers and Cyclopes Film came to Halifax to film Portrait de l'artiste en muse, a tribute to one of Steeves's photographic works, Exile.
• Exposures
Mary Ellen Sullivan MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
Jordan Trethewey
MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm
Susan VandeGriek
E. Diane Wile MMLC author, in • A Quiet, Bashful Man: remembering Malcolm [Halifax NS 2006] ISBN 1895466180
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Legend
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Audrey M. Ashley was born and educated in England, and emigrated to Canada with her husband in 1951. Most of her working life has been spent as a journalist with The Ottawa Citizen, where over a period of some 30 years she was music and drama editor, columnist and theatre critic. She was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for her service to the arts. She and her husband live in Stratford, Ontario. They have a son, Warwick, who is an architect.
Norval Balch is returned to the New Brunswick where he was born in those halcyon days before 1939. Now retired, from a hotch-potch career in broadcasting and marine science, he has moved to ten acres of forest on the edge of a lake, trying to rediscover his childhood. Part of that rediscovery has been seeing the world through the eyes of his Golden Retriever friends, Bundles Mustardseed and Pebbles. Norval is currently working on a book on the NB Archives collection of his father's [R.E. Balch's] photographs.
At the age of sixteen Reg Balch came to Canada from Britain shortly before the first Great War. From the teenager who crossed the Atlantic, he often claimed, "to ride horses," and after spending most of the war in the trenches, he turned to the scientific world to become a forest entomologist, and in the 1930s moved permanently to Fredericton, New Brunswick. Retired after almost half a century as a federal government scientist and administrator he turned to promoting environmental awareness, and to black and white photography. Two books of his photographs have been published by Goose Lane Editions,
A Mind's Eye [1985], and Celebrations of Nature [1991]
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard is the author of four books of poetry including the prize winning Journeys Over Water. She has also written several books in the fields of human rights and politics. Currently she is a Resident Scholar with the Women's Studies Research Center Scholars Program at Brandeis University. She lives with her husband in Wellesley, MA.
Boz Boswell is a visual artist living in Dartmouth, and also the recipient of numerous awards for creative writing, including the
Daily News Award for Creative Writing, and first place in the Arts and Letters competition, Memorial University of Newfoundland, for her first novella, entitled
The Raven Achieved. In addition, Boswell has had a collection of her poetry workshopped and performed at Sir Wilfred Grenfell Theatre, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador.
Astrid Brunner, born into the chaos of World War II, has been a traveller for thrice as many years as Oysseus, and some. While donning the masks of arts journalist, editor, publisher, writer, performer, model, mendicant academic, translator, mother, professor of tongues and literatures, wife, mistress, and woman, on various stages in Europe and North America, she has perfected her favourite role: she is now a passably accomplished fool of time.
Hugh A. Cannell is a New Brunswick lawyer now working out of Hampton. He has many interests, both within the law—where he has some high profile success stories to his credit—and outside it. His broad range of experience and successes of various facets of the law and elsewhere "allow me to look at problems from many viewpoints, which often leads to interesting and productive results." Cannell has won legal and other writing prizes, including the Canada Law Book Prize, and 2nd prize in the 1997 NB Writers' Federation non-fiction competition.
Normand Carrey is a physician (child psychiatrist) by day, and poet by night. Some of his poems have appeared in
Canadian Literature and the Canadian Medical Association Journal [CMAJ]. He is currently working on his first collection of poems, entitled
Poems of Childhood and Extinction, and a novel, Le Pas de Tony. He writes film reviews for the CMAJ, and is a musician as well.
Robert Dietz was born in 1924 in Mayen, a small town in the mountainous Eifel region of Germany. He came to Canada in 1951 and was active in the arts until his death in 1999. A musician in the Stadacona Band and the Royal Canadian Artillery Band, he became the General Manager of the Halifax Symphony and was the driving force in the formation of the Atlantic Symphony, Canada's first professional regional symphony orchestra.
Michael
Green is co-artistic director of Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit, and a member of the company’s performing ensemble. Published and
performed works include Dreams of a Drunken Quaker, Naked West and Yowl [AB collector publishing, 1992], Alien Bait [Borealis
Press, 2004], Laws of Attraction [CBC Poetry Face Off CD & book, 2006],
and The Whaler. His children’s play, Sempleton Marvellous, was remounted for the 35th anniversary season of Calgary’s Wagonstage
touring company. Michael is the curator of High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s 21 year-old international festival of the arts,
was inducted into Canada’s Who’s Who in 2002, and received the Alberta Centennial Medal for outstanding achievement in
February 2006. In his spare time he is the musical director of the internationally acclaimed Whip It Out Ensemble, Canada’s
Frank Zappa burlesque review. Michael also wrote the multi-award winning short film, The Execution Of Margot Rumebe.
Ami Harbin was born in Victoria, B.C., in 1984. She spent two years living and writing in Halifax, and is now studying philosophy in Montreal. Some of her poetry has appeared or will appear in Contemporary Verse 2,
Fathom, and carte blanche.
Liane Heller was born in Paris [France] and raised in New York and Montreal. She is the author of five books, two biographical books, and three books of poetry, Along the Sea Wall, Who's to Say? [both published by Oberon Press, Ottawa], and Exposures [AB collector publishing, 2003]. Individual poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
John was raised in Musgrave Harbour, a small fishing community on the north east coast of Newfoundland. After attending Memorial University of Newfoundland [MUN], and the University of Western Ontario, he worked as a teacher and lawyer in both Ontario and Newfoundland. John is currently studying towards a Ph.D. degree at MUN's Faculty of Education. In 2005, his poem "Salmon Falls" received a Newfoundland and Labrador Art and Letters Award for Poetry.
Jason Holt was born in 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Relics for an Open Vault [2005] is his fourth book of poetry. His other works include two novels and Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize.
Eve Llyndorah was born in Scotland and moved to Canada as a child. She showed talent for art at an early age and attended NSCAD, obtaining a degree in fine arts. She has worked and studied as an artist and goldsmith in Europe and Canada, and moved to Vancouver in 1986. She now lives and works on the Island of Llyndorah, with partner Ray, and parrot Chardu. Eve returns to The Dunes on Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island, each year, with elfish treasures of precious jewellery, as beautiful and spiritual as herself. Of her most recent coast to coast pilgrimage, she writes: “I am leaving for a few weeks, and the evening finds me picking flowers for my beloved in the rain. Such is the magic of the Island of Lllyndorah, a realm where fairies reign, and spirit caresses the earth. This is where I paint with soul, and make exquisite jewellery, fit for fairies and fit for Queens.”
Jack MacDonald lives in and around Halifax and Dartmouth in Nova Scotia. He is a cracker barrel philosopher of true Dickensian dimensions, who philosophises and wisecracks and hurdy-gurdies his
lebensphilosophical writings from door to door. He is in this book because Malcolm would have found him excellent fare for laughter and true learning. "Thanks for supporting a local writer and recording artist," says MacDonald, as he closes the door at 5835, and pockets the handful of loonies I have given him for his words in the wintry moonlight.
Originally from Ontario, Lisa Scott moved to Nova Scotia to be closer to her family roots, and to the ocean. Soon after her move, she met this surfer guy. They have been together 14 years, and have a four year old son, who is their greatest project to date. In the 25 years since her mother's death, Lisa has taken many journeys to find her missing piece. Now at last she is re-connected to her mother, through the beauty of becoming a mother. "By the highway with my mum..." was originally aired by CBC's Terry Fox broadcast of 7 September, 2005.
Stephen Scott was born amidst the clutter, smoke, and fog of the 1950s south end Saint John. He was raised in the Florence of New Brunswick, Fredericton, after which he attended, and graduated from Mount Allison University. Armed with a degree of Fine Arts [although not a marketable name, such as Stephen Porterhouse, or T-Bone Scott], went on to spend several years
traveling, developing a career as a painter, teaching, and an exhausting array of menial and tiresome occupations.
Pete Stafford does not reveal
biographical details, and he hates
being interrupted on weekends, which he devotes fully, and very successfully, to his family. He is equally successful at what he
does between weekends. He is a fine designer, and has, under his imprint of Cambridge Pen and Design, designed books for AB collector
publishing since 1998. Canadian Ceramics: a Collector's Passion will be Pete's 12th book for ABcp. Pete is also a blues and jazz musician,
and a
visual artist with a particular knack for the graphic outlines of things. Pete
lives and works in North Fredericton, New Brunswick.
George Steeves was living in Ottawa as a schoolboy when he shot one of his first photographs, that of the newly crowned Queen; he then printed it in his darkroom in Mum's preserve closet. Women dominate the 40,000 negatives, 8,000 work prints, and 1,800 fine prints that have come since. For over thirty years he has operated out of his Halifax photo-bunker, financed by engineering work across the harbour.
Jordan Trethewey is a playwright, stage director, poet, and short fiction writer living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is also a brewer at Picaroons Traditional Ales. He is the recipient of the inaugural Robert Clayton Casto Prize in Poetry, and the Ted Daigle Memorial Award. Two of his one-act plays [co-written with Kyle B. Peters] have received honourable mentions at the Notable Acts Summer Theatre Festival 2005, and 2006. Jordan lives across from the famous Boyce Farmer's Market, with his wife Tina and black tabby, Rembrandt.