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The
Nelligan
Review

Fiction
& Poetry

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The
Nelligan
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more art = a greater tolerance

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more art = a greater tolerance

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more art = a greater tolerance

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Vol. 1 / Issue 2

December 29, 2022

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Où ennui et mélancolie se touchent. "Mon sabot de  Noël",  Émile Nelligan.

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"Why poetry?" asks RC deWinter. "Poetry is the language of the soul, of every glittering star, of every pebble buried in the mud, the shadow you can't quite see. Poetry is a spur in the side, a knife in the heart, a memory in the mouth." RC - we agree!

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Two poems by Vida Kazemi. One, the loss of a brother. The other, the loss of a country.

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"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."  "The Turn" by Partridge Boswell.

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Une jeune immigrante tyrannisée. "Le Retour à Goodlands", une nouvelle qui bouleverse, écrite par Nicole Defoy.

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Make a joyful noise on your tabrets and pipes. "Psalm" by Joshua St. Claire.

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"Music" by Douglas Babington, is one of fourteen poems that the writer composed after reading Albert Camus's La Peste.  It features images from the novel, in translation, as well as many stylistic embellishments.

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The connections we make. "Perrier in a Bottle" by  Kathryn Brown Ramsperger.                                                                                        

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With what runs within us: "Caveman" and "Pizarro" by Jonathan Fletcher. 

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Existentialism in a smoke-filled bar. "Philosophers" by Ace Boggess.

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"La Sorcière au Fond des  Bois".  Là où les petites filles triomphent.

Une traduction de  la nouvelle, "The Witch in the Wood," de Christian Fennell, par Céline Vergne.

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Nous nous souvenons ...

Christian Bobin, écrivain et poète français, est né le 24 avril, 1951 au Creusot en Saône-et-Loire. Il nous a quitté récemment, le 23 novembre 2022, à Chalon-sur-Saône. Il se fit connaître du grand public en 1992 grâce au livre Le Très-Bas, livre consacré à Saint-François d’Assise, lequel recevra trois prix littéraires. Bobin ne cessera dès lors de gagner en popularité. Auteur prolifique, il publia au long de sa carrière une soixantaine d’ouvrages.

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Bobin donne sens au vide, à l’obscur, avec comme fil conducteur cette volonté lumineuse de bien vouloir observer, ce qui est, pourtant, et toujours—si visible.

more art = a greater tolerance

The
Nelligan
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Vol. 1 / Issue 1

October 3, 2022

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... b/c, it's The Nelligan Review, and it's the first issue. 
"The Golden Ship"

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Launching a literary and cultural review journal named after a poet and running an 'Ars Poetica' poem by Cynthia Atkins ... how fitting is that? "Crickets" 

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"Two Women" by Montreal poet Jerome Ramcharitar.

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Even If  by Robert Anderson is an imagining of the way in which Rudyard Kipling resisted and ultimately succumbed to allowing his only son John to join the Irish Guards combat unit in 1915 and subsequently the way in which Kipling survived his son's disappearance at the Battle of Loos in the same year.  The novel also imagines Kipling taking part in brokering in the secret First-World-War-Rubber-for-Optical-Glass-Agreement between the Allied and Central Powers which allowed the conflict to continue for an additional three years at the cost of millions of lives.  Appearing in the story are the likes of Winston Churchill, Statesman Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Novelist Robert Graves, Chaplain-General to the British Forces Bishop John Taylor Smith, German Field Marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, and Kipling's sister and companion, Novelist Alice (Beatrice) MacDonald Fleming.     

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Is it fiction? Possibly.

We're now open for submissions.

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