Photo credit: C.W. Hill Photography Ltd. and Walterdale Theatre After Thicker Than Blood life got busy. School, kid, work, more school, another kid, more school, always writing in my spare time about the freeing quality of art. Go figure. It took a long time, but it finally came together with Premier Ralph Klein’s drunken night…
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With this cross we stake our claim Raise our stone god on the now broken land The river which poured us hungry, fierce across the prairies Now lolls at our feet One arm of this cross Thrusts west Peaks impregnable now train-tracked traced in children’s colouring books The other arm aims east, shoots the nodding…
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I acknowledge that I and many other non-Indigenous people have benefited from this land and I want to show it with more than words. This is my land acknowledgement. Like many non-Indigenous people in Alberta, I’ve benefited greatly from the land and from the resources under the land. Many Indigenous people have not benefited,…
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The Poet’s Pig was co-winner of the one-act comedy category of the 1988 Alberta Playwriting Competition. It was first produced at Walterdale Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, in May of 1988, as part of the one-act festival, with a second production in the 1988 Edmonton Fringe Festival, and a third production in the 1989 Vancouver Fringe…
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