Land and the Word | Spirituality of Writing | Motives and Aspirations

Part of the Writers' Confessions series

Michael Glassbourg
TickleScratch Productions
24 minutes • 2005
Also available on DVD

Michael Crummey thinks his writing has been influenced by growing up in Newfoundland, where there is enormous communal guilt about the disappearance of the Beothuk people. Guy Vanderhaeghe feels part of a Saskatchewan writing tradition because the presence of the land is central to his stories. Tim Lilburn expresses a creative connection to his home because his people are buried there. These and other writers delve into the significance of the land in Canadian literature, the sacredness of writing, and the responsibility writers feel to contribute to the greater world.

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Subject(s): Artists, Literature, Spirituality