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Articles by Zachariah Wells
Owning Our Privilege
On the morning of August 7, our realtor emailed to let me know that our offer of $462,500 had been accepted by the sellers of the big yellow house on Devonshire Avenue. As long as the financing and inspection work out, we’ll be popping champagne on September 5 and moving from our corner lot on Richmond St. and Devonshire in Halifax’s North End. My wife Rachel and I bought our first house twelve years ago for $182,500—and we have no intention of selling it any time soon.
Do Good Landlords Even Exist?
Until our late twenties, my wife and I were renters. And, like other renters, we ran into landlords who behaved badly. Landlords who got angry when we exercised our rights or requested repairs or complained about violations. Landlords who tried to evict us illegally. Landlords who entered without proper notice. Landlords who withheld deposit money on spurious grounds. Landlords who treated us more like serfs than clients.
A Claptrap Canon: On the Modern Canadian Poets Anthology by Zachariah Wells
Anthologies, particularly those dedicated to presenting the poetry of a particular stretch of geopolitical space-time, are, by necessity, Procrustean beds. Thousands of poets producing work over many decades get pruned to a mere few dozen names. Each of those lucky versifiers might have produced hundreds of poems in a lifetime of work, but can only be allotted, at most, a few pages in the Big Book of Nation Y’s Essential Verse.
The Moving Scene: The Poetry of Descriptions
In one of the great misreadings of one poet by another, John Keats complained to his publisher that, in the poetry of John Clare, “the Description too much prevailed over the Sentiment.” For his part, Clare felt that Keats’s “descriptions of scenery are often very fine but as it is the case with other inhabitants of great cities he often described nature as she appeared to his fancies & not as he would have described her had he witnessed the things he describes.” Clare and Keats were almost...
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