Category Archives: Poetry

ANUVAD 2017

Posted on March 3, 2017 by julian peters comics

Between February 11 and February 14 I took part in the ANUVAD Arts Festival 2017 taking place in the city of Silchar, India. Organized by the North East India Company arts collective, the second annual edition of this eclectic and … Continue reading →

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Tagore in Delhi Airport

Posted on February 20, 2017 by julian peters comics

On my way back from Silchar, India, where I participated in the Anuvad Arts Festival (more on that to follow), I had an 8-hour layover at Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, where I read the poems of Rabindranath Tagore … Continue reading →

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White on Black Sketch #4 – Dante’s Inferno

Posted on January 25, 2017 by julian peters comics

In the last canto of Dante’s Inferno, the Florentine poet arrives at the center of the final circle of Hell, where he lays eyes on Lucifer himself. Here Hell has literally frozen over, and the Devil is described as encased … Continue reading →

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Heresy’s musical adaptation of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot featuring my comic -Full video now available!

Posted on January 20, 2017 by julian peters comics

And what a monumental and magnificent creation it is! Heresy is a New York-based progressive rock band that has been playing together since the 70s. Prufrock, their first album since 1989, includes this wonderful 16-song suite setting to music of … Continue reading →

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White on Black Sketch #3 – “Thinking of You” (Shiudiao Getou) II

Posted on January 12, 2017 by julian peters comics

In honour of the first full moon of 2017 (and the last of the Year of the Monkey), here is another white-gouache-on-black-paper sketch inspired by “Shiudiao Getou,” a famous poem by the 11th-century Chinese poet Su Shi (or Su Tungpo). … Continue reading →

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Preview of video for Heresy’s musical adaptation of “Prufrock” featuring images from my comic

Posted on January 5, 2017 by julian peters comics

Heresy is a New York-based progressive rock band that has been playing together since the 70s. A few months ago they released Prufrock, their first album since 1989, which includes a 16-song suite setting to music “The Love Song of J. … Continue reading →

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Leonard Cohen in The Tower of Song

Posted on November 16, 2016 by julian peters comics
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“I am in Bed with You, too” by Emma Barnes for New Zealand National Poetry Day

Posted on August 31, 2016 by julian peters comics

This August 25th, as part of New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, Victoria University of Wellington’s Wai-te-ata Press hosted Transpositions, an event celebrating New Zealand women poets and their translators. One of the event’s organizers, Francesca Benocci (My “Partner in Rhyme” … Continue reading →

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Le Poète Public honours me with a poem!

Posted on July 30, 2016 by julian peters comics

A couple of days ago, one of my Italian students brought me a poem about me by Robert Séguin, Montreal’s very own public poet. Le Poète Public has set up his made-to-order poetry booth on Prince-Arthur Street, just next to … Continue reading →

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Graphic Poetry: My article on Dino Buzzati’s “Poema a fumetti” in Image [&] Narrative

Posted on July 20, 2016 by julian peters comics

                    My article on Dino Buzzati’s proto graphic novel  Poema a fumetti (1969) appears today in the new special issue of Image [&] Narrative, a peer-reviewed e-journal on visual narratology and … Continue reading →

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