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Video of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” read by Joseph Miller

Posted on November 13, 2020 by

The American actor Joseph Miller has put created this short video featuring his  dramatic reading of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” combined with my comics illustrations of the same poem.

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Views of an Imaginary City 1: Entering Sensuka Bay

Posted on November 12, 2020 by

Entering Sensuka Bay In this opening print of the series, the viewer is transported onto the deck of one of the steam-powered ferries linking Sensuka to Kadonde, on the other side of the Golden Strait. The steamer is rounding the … Continue reading →

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Video of “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Posted on November 9, 2020 by

A beautiful and moving video by Jim Avis, pairing my comics adaptation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Spring and Fall” with a musical interpretation of that same poem by Natalie Merchant. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can … Continue reading →

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Video of “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Posted on October 29, 2020 by

With Halloween around the corner, here is a suitably eerie video adaptation by Jim Avis of my own comics interpretation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Conscientious Objector” (1934). The poem is read by Natalie Rushing. The original comics adaptation, … Continue reading →

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“Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith in Plough Quarterly

Posted on October 27, 2020 by

My comics adaptation of one of my all-time favourite poems, Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving But Drowning”(1957) appears today on the Plough.com website. The comic was created last year for inclusion in “Poems to See By,” (published by Plough Publishing in … Continue reading →

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The Legend of Le Rocher Panet

Posted on October 22, 2020 by

The south shore of the St. Lawrence River around Montmagny and l’Islet is in places lacking in topographical variety. There are no cliffs nor steep slopes, but rather grassy beaches burgeoning with wild rice and sedges, murky from the fine … Continue reading →

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Two Montreal Views in the Style of Ukiyo-e Prints

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

Two scenes from near where I live – an alley in Côte-Saint-Paul and a view along the aqueduct in Verdun – rendered in a style that tries to imitate that of the nineteenth-century Japanese ukiyo-e prints by such artists as … Continue reading →

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Video of “may my heart always be open to little” by e e cummings

Posted on September 23, 2020 by

A delightful interpretation by Jim Avis of one my poetry comics, this time my adaptation of “may my hear always be open to little” by e e cummings. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in … Continue reading →

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Video of “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Posted on August 21, 2020 by

A new video interpretation by Jim Davis of my comics adaptation of William Ernest  Henley’s classic poem “Invictus” (1875). Avis has added a surprise flourish to the final drawing, one that I feel is in keeping with Henley’s theme of … Continue reading →

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Video of “Somewhere or Other” by Christina Rossetti

Posted on August 7, 2020 by

A very sensitive video adaptation by Jim Avis of my comics interpretation of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Somewhere or Other.” I find this one makes particularly effective use of Avis’s signature zooming technique. The terrific reading is by “the Wordman” and … Continue reading →

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