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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

Douglas Rain

March 4, 2019 March 8, 2019

Douglas Rain died three months ago, but I was away and did not know of if until I got back to Kelowna in late January. Doug was my boss at the National Theatre School, and I have had great respect both for his work there and as one of our…

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carl Hare

August 12, 2018 August 12, 2018

From ROB MCLENNAN’S BLOG Original post Saturday, July 21, 2018 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Carl Hare Carl Hare has written poems and plays including The Eagle and the Tiger, which has been successfully produced and is in the archives of the National Library of Norway. His children’s poems have been…

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.