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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

Kirsteen MacLeod

Kirsteen MacLeod is a former Al Purdy A-frame Association writer-in-residence.

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Kirsteen MacLeod

Letter to a Fallen Angel

July–August 2013
  It’s you I think of, Cassiel, as I look down from the 25th floor in my white hotel bathrobe, feet resting on the window, listening to Casals, who has to be your brother-angel — fallen to earth with his cello.   Below, my city’s a reef: calcified light towers, red train tracks that undulate, white amoebas that pulse along the expressway to the dark water’s…