When I first moved to Victoria many years ago, one of my colleagues said,
The New Iceland Diaspora
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Tag Archives: Riverton
The Valkyrie disses Laxness
Hulga turned up at my door looking like a Valkyrie. Five foot six maybe, brunette hair going gray, eyes like flashing lights and a tightness of the skin under her nose that presaged unpleasant things to come. If Valdi was now close to 90, his daughter would be around fifty four.
If I remembered correctly, he said Mary had their daughter a year after they got married. There wasn
Book Review: Historical Images of New Iceland Settlements
Ben Holyk
The Things We Care About
Strange, the things we care about. Some people care about the fate of the timber wolf or the prairie gopher or the red legged wombat. Others care about historic events, are fixated on Napoleon and the battle of Waterloo. Others are passionate about Mediterranean frescoes. There
The Bard of Riverton
In 1961-62 I lived in Riverton, Manitoba. It was a memorable year. The one thing I didn
The Winnipeg Icelander
Over my lifetime, I’ve read thousands of poems, as a student, as a teacher and as a reader who loves the well-wrought word.
Keats and Shelley and Donne and Yeats and Plath and Wakoski and Bly and Eliott and Frost and Berryman and Shakespeare and
