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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.

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Creation of an epic – 20

April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020

Well, the first thing was to accept that it would take years. And the second thing was to work out a rough timetable. My goal became to write a canto a month—in other words, to write at least thirty pages a month—approximately a page of poetry a day. Now, you…

Creation of an epic – 19

April 11, 2020 April 11, 2020

It is a strange feeling to create characters and scenes and find that they take on their own life, live in your mind. I can honestly say that I wrote down what I heard them say and described where I saw them and how they acted—and all this in the…

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.