Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Kitchen Murders: Domestication of Violence in Women’s Writing
Several strands of my professional life collided yesterday. I’m trying to complete an email–just an email!–to participants for a Zoom webinar that commemorates Pat Lowther’s brilliant poetic legacy. A heavy cold has been hampering me, but I’ll finish it and get it out today. Except that the Lowther project, for July, reminded me that I…
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Canadian Art Monsters
A CFP, to start, for what may be a doomed endeavour; my sense is that this is still, perhaps, premature? But the MLA Convention will be in Toronto in January 2026, and the CanLit forum panels don’t seem amenable to the topic (although I may submit something, in case I’m wrong). And I’m feeling a…
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Mercy and Misery
Because I have little to no Latin, my guesses about the meaning of words are rarely correct and sometimes risible. A friend gave me a gorgeous just-because gift this week of Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day, by the wonderfully named Clemency Burton-Hill. Each day features a selection, and today’s is…
