Carl Hare – Author, Poet, Teacher

On the River of Time

“A magnificent book. I am overwhelmed … every page captured me and I found it ringing in my head as you maintained style and rhythm throughout.
The characters lived."
- Ann Saddlemyer, Master Emerita, Scholar of Irish Theatre and Poetry & Master of Massey College

Publications now on Amazon

A Weathering of Years

These poems explore our ages by the season: Child’s adventure in untidy garden With its ancient, stooped gardener; young poet Begging in Seattle; celebrations Of birth, birthdays and of deaths; old Ibsens, Restless in their solace; backyard elegy; And more beside, all etched in shifting verse. Now available on Amazon.

Odysseus

Book One of the epic poem On the Breast of the River of Time, “Odysseus” recounts the final perilous quest the hero had to undertake. Now available on Amazon.

Spenser

The second of the epic trilogy, On the River of Time, which examines three figures – one mythical, one historical, and one fictional – from different time periods spanning almost three thousand years: Odysseus in Greece; Spenser, the poet, in Ireland; and Archer, a renegade actor/director in Canada. Now available on Amazon.

Latest Blog Posts

Creation of an epic – 22

April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020

And the process has continued. As the incidents grew, evolved, changed, the meanings they suggested also became clearer to me. One of the first most important issues was that any narration made no comment except to convey the action, settings and the mood. Meanings emerged through the characters themselves—they could…

Creation of an epic – 28

April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020

But this is not the end of the story. By the time you read this, there will be an eBook version of Books One and a forthcoming Book Two, as well as audiobooks of them (the audio version of my website has been removed). Hopefully, Book Three, Archer, will be…

About Carl Hare

Carl Hare in his long career has been a professor, actor, director, playwright, and poet. His most recent work includes performances of his play The Eagle and the Tiger and his adaptation of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman; the setting of six of his children’s poems to music by Canadian composer Malcolm Forsyth; a commissioned poem for Forsyth’s A Ballad of Canada, performed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra; and A Weathering of Years, a collection of poetry published in 2015.