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One of my reading goals this year is to read something by George MacDonald. Many authors reference his fairy tales, which inspired Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Madeleine L’Engle, to name a few. So I picked up The Princess and the Goblin (1872) last month and thoroughly enjoyed it.
One of the first modern fairy tales and a precursor to modern fantasy, this book pits humans against goblins and is unconventional in its female heroine, the eight-year-old Princess Irene who rescues her miner friend Curdie from the goblins. Curdie, in turn, rescues Irene and everyone else who lives in the castle from a goblin invasion. The goblins have concocted a plan for revenge against the humans who live in the mountains above them and who, according to legend, drove them into the subterranean dwelling ages ago where their bodies began to twist and dwarf in accordance with their physical space. The goblins’ Plan A is to abduct the princess and wed her to one of theirs. Their backup plan is to flood the mines where many humans in the kingdom work, thus destroying their livelihood.
I love that a fairly tale from 1872 featured a girl rescuing a boy and where a princess does dirty work, removing rocks one by one from the mine to access the spot where the goblins imprisoned Curdie. And I love that Irene’s great-great-grandmother spins her a magical thread that leads her and Curdie safely out of the mines and back home, whereas Curdie’s rope that he used to eavesdrop on the goblins and return from the mine was found by the goblins’ pets. In a wonderful inversion, the pets reel Curdie in in one scene like he is the dog and they are the owners.
But what I love the most is the role of poetry in the book. Early on, MacDonald establishes poetry or verse as the best weapon to fight the goblins:
As I have indicated already, the chief defence against them was verse, for they hated verse of every kind, and some kinds they could not
I wanted to write something that perhaps bolsters our spirits while recognizing the new challenges that are upon us. So the poem of the month is called Interesting Times. Purchasing this poem allows you to support me Read more
I wanted to write something that perhaps bolsters our spirits while recognizing the new challenges that are upon us. So the poem of the month is called Interesting Times. Purchasing this poem allows you to support me directly and that support is always deeply appreciated. I don't know what the future of touring is going to look like these next few years. As the price of everything goes up it gets harder for the arts to thrive. I'm blessed to have all of you beautiful darlings.
This month I'm sharing a poem called Touch Is A Vitamin. Sometimes we isolate ourselves because we think it's a form of self care or self protection. The danger is that the cocoon we build around ourselves can be tough to emerge from. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I feel like I may finally be coming out of a long darkness.
The Wreckage is a long form rhythmic piece that was inspired by having to salvage what we deem precious from the twisted metal of the tragedies we endure. There's still a lot of treasure we can raise from what we consider the sunken ruins of our experience.
For the sons and daughters who are missing their moms as much as I am I can only say how lucky we are to experience the depth of love each time we think of them. To honour that there is a bonus poem this month. I recently Read more
For the sons and daughters who are missing their moms as much as I am I can only say how lucky we are to experience the depth of love each time we think of them. To honour that there is a bonus poem this month. I recently performed this collaboration with my friend Dan Mangan. A shared piece called Move Pen Move / Tragic Turn Of Events. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Dan’s music before I highly recommend doi
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Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University
Shane L. Koyczan, born 22 May 1976, is a Canadianspoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University. He is known for writing about issues like bullying, cancer, death, and eating disorders. He is most famous for the anti-bullying poem “To This Day” which has over 25 million views on YouTube.
Background
Koyczan was born in Northwest Territories, to a Canadian Indigenous father and a French mother. He grew up in Penticton, British Columbia. In 2000, he became the first Canadian to win the Individual Championship title at the beach National Poetry Slam. Together with American slam poetMighty Mike McGee and fellow Canadian C. R. Avery, he is a co-founder of Vancouver, British Columbia spoken word, "talk rock" trio, Tons of Fun University (T.O.F.U.). In August 2007 Shane Koyczan and his work were the subject of an episode of the television documentary series Heart of a Poet, produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge for broadcaster Bravo!.
Koyczan has published several books, including poetry collection Visiting Hours, Stickboy, a novel in verse, Our Deathbeds will be Thirsty, To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful and A Bruise on Light. Visiting Hours was selected by both the Guardian and Globe and Mail for their 2005 Best Books of the Year lists.
Koyczan's "We Are More" and Ivan Bielinski's "La première fois", commissioned by the Canadian Tourism Commission, were unveiled at Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on 1 July 2007. Koyczan performed a variation on his piece at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Koyczan also collaborated on Vancouver-based musician Dan Mangan's Roboteering EP on the track Tragic Turn of Events – Move Pen Move.
In 2012, Shane Koyczan released a full-length digital alb
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