Deborah Bowen

10 RESULTS

Deborah Bowen Sep 25, 2014 Essay

Contemporary Fiction and a Longing for the Miraculous

“I don’t want realism! I want magic!” —Tennessee Williams

Deborah Bowen Oct 5, 2012 Uncategorized

Translating the Quirks and Peculiarities

SIX QUESTIONS . . . But I guess what I want to cultivate in all of my work is a sense of the omnipresent reality and activity of God, who is present whether or not named, whether or not recognized, upholding the universe by the word of His power, and writing the grand Story of time and eternity.

Deborah Bowen Sep 1, 2011 Essay The good society

Why Bother with the Humanities in a Time of Crisis?

Through riots, wars, and droughts, I teach English. Fiddling while Rome burns?

Deborah Bowen Mar 1, 2011 Essay Letters to the Young

What’s the Use of Stories That Aren’t Even True?

Christians are not called primarily to rules or beliefs, but to a community of faith within a great narrative.

Deborah Bowen Dec 24, 2010 Uncategorized

“Double-life”: memorial stones in rocks and poems

Poems that awaken a more tender conscience.

Deborah Bowen Oct 8, 2010 Uncategorized

How to honour dead poets: P.K. Page and the “glosa” form

Recognizing the influence of others is hardly plagiarism.

Deborah Bowen Mar 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Poetry as regreening

An ecopoetic restoration project, longer on passion than refinement.

Deborah Bowen Dec 25, 2009 Uncategorized

Caroling at Christmas

Carols still get written—songs and poems about Christmas that enable us to hear and see the ancient Christmas story in a new light, even today.

Deborah Bowen Nov 27, 2009 Uncategorized

Your favourite uncle, the one that shocks your parents

“On some porch steps / between lightning flashes / writing”: Al Purdy, curmudgeonly poet-next-door

Deborah Bowen Apr 17, 2009 Uncategorized

An Easter Orchard

A contemporary Canadian poet has a radical take on the cross, because he is a carpenter who pays close attention to city trees.