studio

For those who missed the poetry mosh pit at the Spirit of the Hills Festival of the Arts, the reading room’s latest offering is the poem I recited there, matched in mood by the image in gallery.

Something about this building, on Commissioners Street in Toronto, and indeed the entire brownland east of downtown, has always attracted me. What we called ‘the bridge and tunnel drive’ – Commissioners, Unwin, Cherry, Canary, was a favourite drive of my son’s when he was young. The literally proud Visitor Parking sign now presides over emptiness.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words – the heartbreaking winning photo from the 2019 World Press Photo Exhibition for instance https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photocontest/winners/2019. Sometimes a picture is beyond words, wordless, or simply beyond.

Here is my angel laying the foundations for my new website. www.miaburrus.com. I’ll drag myself up the learning curve, making weekly site improvements and additions of fresh content, be it visual, textual or explanatory. This week, I establish the opening shot – the place (in gallery) and time (in reading room). Look out 21st century,