Michel Weatherall
Poetry
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Ghosts, and Other Chthonic Macabres
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Winner of the 2023 Otawa Awards Book of the Year.
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This anthology features the blights of monsters, ghouls, vampires, mutants, demons, and ghosts!
Enter the haunted nightmares of Ottawa's literary talents, eerie tales, and imaginations!
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Jana Begovic, Anna Blauveldt, Summer Breeze. Jim Davies, Codi Jeffreys, George Foster, Matthew Lalonde, Allan McCarville, Emma Schuster, Sara Scally, and Michel Weatherall.
Down Darkened Corridors
ISBN: 978-1-988253-33-6 (digital)
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"This collection bears testimony to how valiantly Weatherall embarks on an inner journey, mining the darkness in his shadow world and transmuting it into the aesthetic of verse.
"He paints images that are a tangle of anger, guilt, helplessness, wounded childhood to the point of instilling both a sense of discomfort in the reader and of admiration for the courage to come face to face anew with the disturbing past.
"Feels like a jolt to the reader, like a reminder that life is a play that cannot escape from the falling of the final curtain. His verse “..spare the child, spoil the rod” evokes an image of child abuse that sends shivers down one’s spine
"Weatherall’s dark poetry is like the edge of a knife with which he pries under his own and the reader’s comfort zone. Exposing the ominous hum of his own darkness, Weatherall reminds us that only by facing our shadows and shining a light of introspection on them can we expunge them. Chiseling this shadow world into verses, he gives us hope that with lyrical gentleness we can all find self-forgiveness."
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author of Poisonous Whispers,
poet and senior editor at Ariel Chart Literary Journal
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Love & Catastrophē Poetrē
ISBN: 978-1-988253-30-5 (print edition)
ISBN: 978-1-988253-31-2 (digital)
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Foreward by Julie Beun
Winner of the Faces of Ottawa 2022 Book of the Year Award.
This collection of local Ottawa poets addresses the loves and losses during the catastrophies of 2020.
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"There is so much of love in this collection, so much to love in the time of a pandemic, to abuse the phrase. In a period where we are bereft of touch and intimacy, love in all its forms encourages us to connect and, better yet, to hope. And, as much as love hurts in "Touch," love always has the power to heal a very broken world.
"Love changes and changes us with it, as evidenced in this marvellous collection of poems that encompass so much in so little space."
Julie Beun
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"This collection captures an outpouring of emotion from a year of catastrophe and loss, interwoven through the themes of wildfire, pandemic and hurricane. The poems are vignettes of sorrow, destruction, loneliness and separation, but also with glimmers of hope. For lovers of poignant poetry."
Rachel B. Brown, CEO
North Grenville Public Library
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A Dark Corner of My Soul
ISBN - 978-0-9948189-6-6 (digital)
ISBN - 978-1-988253-00-8 (print)
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Foreward by Lydia Schoch (blogger & Goodreads Author)
“A Dark Corner of my Soul”...was refreshing to read and well-written... a raw and honest compilation of poetry purely written from his heart. Dare I say, very Leonard Cohen-ish!"
Brigitte Lord, author of We Live in the Shadows
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"An amazing collection of literary prose which Weatherall has kept locked in a desk drawer for two decades is now a short collection of dark and deeply disturbing poems.
"The reader is transported into the mind of someone suffering and you can see the images of his words as if they were your own.
"As a sufferer myself, I was amazed at just how much he was able to write and convey how mental illness makes a sufferer feel. Those images which are so difficult to explain that haunt the head flow off the page, raw and exposed for all to see.
I couldn't possibly choose a favourite in the collection as they were all so powerful and beautifully written. Michel has a true talent and after reading I felt he was extremely brave to share such wonderful, if dark work."
Listen to the incredible Maximilan Alexander read "The Man Downstairs."
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Listen to the incredible Maximilan Alexander read ""Sins of Omission."
Don't forget to subscribe to his YouTube channel!
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We’re so excited to finally share this collection of new works, and we hope you find something in the book that inspires and moves you. Please download, enjoy, and share it with your poetry-loving friends!
Could This Be The Last Time
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In the spirit of inspiring conversation about local poets, and the many ways poetry is expressed in Ottawa, Apartment613 invited its readers and writers to submit their original poetry for publication on the blog. During National Poetry Month, this call for submissions sparked the interest of at least 50 local poets (!!!) whose original poems make up Apt613’s first-ever collection. We hope to do this again!
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Established artists and folks just starting out sent their work in French, English, all kinds of genres and many styles. A team of volunteer readers and editors made the selection (including works by every artist who submitted) which was laid out by Ottawa designer Steve St. Pierre. The photography featured in Apt613’s digital chapbook comes from another Ottawa-based artist, Natasha Reddy.
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Other Writings
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Thin Places: The Ottawan Anthology
ISBN: 978-1-988253-27-5 (print edition)
ISBN: 978-1-988253-28-2 (digital)
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Foreword by Codi Jeffreys
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Fourteen authors, fifteen short stories, one poem, local publisher (and Winner of the 2020 Faces of Ottawa, Favourite Publisher), local editor, and our very own Codi Jeffreys penning its foreword!
All with underlying themes of parallel universes or alternative realities.
Ottawa, are you ready to see what incredible literary richness this awesome city has to offer?!
Originally planned to be released late spring/early summer, unfortunately due the the Covid-19 outbreak, its print edition must be delayed (but don't you fret! It is most definitely still in the works!)
But for the short term, an ebook will be made available! (What better time to catch up on your reading now that we're all stuck in our homes!)
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In this diificult time of the Covid-19 pandemic, fear, isolation, mental illness and hardship will be a challenge many will face in silence.
100% of Thin Places: The Ottawan Anthology's ebook proceeds will directly aid Ottawa's needy and be donated to Shadow Ottawa.
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Editor-in-chief: Michel Weatherall
Editor: Nancy Laflamme
Publisher: Broken Keys Publishing
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Divine Love Trumps Divine Power:
The Voice of Sophia
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Invited to participate in writting an essay on this theological website, this essay may be found on Thomas Jay Oord's The Uncontrolling Love of God's website. This essay begins to explore the implications of an Uncontrolling God whose Love far exceeds its control. The essay itself may be found here.
This follow up book to the Uncontrolling Love of God is due for release in August 2017.