Encore Literary Magazine is extremely proud to have permission from the executors of the estate of the late Richard Outram to present work by one of Canada’s great poets. In the months to come, poems by Outram will be periodically featured here, thus helping to keep alive the singular voice of, in the words of Alberto Manguel, “one of [...]
We at Encore Literary Magazine have glanced at a few of these CanLit Best of the Decade lists floating around the “blogosphere” lately and while the appearance of certain titles causes us to roll our eyes, we choose for the moment to restrain our snarkier selves to instead offer up a pair of Canadian novels which, if there [...]
P. K. Page … is, in brief, a phenomenon; a force majeur in Canadian literary and artistic life; a National Treasure. Her work, sprung from the praiseworthy ambition of the lavishly gifted, bestows upon us rich decades of protean accomplishment, of widespread honour and renown. – Richard Outram
P.K. Page is a visionary, a descendant of Blake [...]
This happened a long time ago, back when I was married.
One afternoon I sat at my desk writing a letter to a company that manufactures frozen food products. I was writing to let them know I was disappointed with their meat lasagna. At one time it had been really good, this meat lasagna, quite delicious, [...]
I
Such a slim barrow into which to stuff
a life; such a narrow beam to cross
and brace the walls. Pollarded and shallow-
rooted, it resists the winds, persists
despite its pruning. Stiff and stolid
in its ramrod stance, it stands, but shifts
and strays when no one’s watching. It sees
the road ahead, [...]
