![]() ![]() Chosen a Paul Klee’s abstract watercolour and chalk, Hermitage, for the book cover. The manuscript I had ordered into five sections. “Like the mythological figure she describes as “ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble”, Martonfi has hewn her own spare lines to recast her book’s obsession with the politics, violences, and musics of the oral.” ![]() Happy with my short book description I had written for the Inanna Author Questionnaire. I edit and order a last time, my forthcoming collection The Tempest, Inanna Publications, 2021. People observe ‘social distancing’ as they line-up at an N.D.G. “Coronavirus March 20: Quebec cases climb to 139 as Côte-St-Luc pleads for quarantine. (File: Clam on beach – panoramio.jpg / Wikimedia) My haiku I posted on Facebook social media this Saturday: Traditional haiku consist of 17 syllables in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5. “The essence of haiku is a cutting word between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark. “COVID-19 updates March 14: First Quebec child tests positive as province tells those over 70 to stay home.” Montreal poet tells refugee stories from a child’s perspective That’s my message, actually: Learn from the past and don’t repeat it. It’s coming back, as if they hadn’t learned anything. I read about the ghetto because of what’s happening in politics now in the States. Emotions have to be harnessed right from the first poem. I read my poetry at all my literary events. The poetry events - I started them 20 years ago and it’s not easy to stop. I wrote several poems about that (such as “Ráhel’s Mother” one of the most powerful things I’ve seen. And it’s there, not far from where I lived, across from the Danube. They have one artist in Budapest who created iron shoes because they had to take off their shoes when they shot them into the river. The biggest research that I found was how sent to Auschwitz. We spoke to Ilona Martonfi about her new collection, Salt Bride. Montreal poet tells refugee stories from a child’s perspective. Ilona Martonfi uses her poetry to build on her activism as a tool for achieving goals, taking a stand.” Offering free verse, prose poems, haibun and haiku. Beauty and pathos are wound in a tangle of exile, and find a home. “The poems in this collection are sculpted like carnallite crystals and come together as elegiac meditations, drawing on history, and on mythology. Last December, winter solstice, wind-chill minus 33, I was invited to give an interview about my latest poetry book, Salt Bride, published fall 2019 with Inanna Publications, by Montreal writer Matthew Rettino to appear with Cult MTLĪt the same time, I would also like to extend my thanks to Inanna for posting my book description on the Inanna website. ![]() Students from across Montreal participate in a climate march January 10 2020.” “Preparing our students for the climate future. (File: Apple pie.jpg / From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository) Tak gode Applys and gode Spycis and Figys and reyfons and Perys and wan they are wel ybrayed colourd with Safron wel and do yt in a cofyn and do yt forth to bake wel. In the years after the terrible mortality of the Black Death… “At this period of the Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic, in 1348 the grass grew several inches high in the High St and in Broad St it raged at first chiefly in the centre of the city of London.” So how does she choose stance and share of herself? How does she feel about social distancing, about what’s important to her? What does history teach us about baking in a pandemic? Reading the news a little more soberly. Her lockdown days spent in final editing her forthcoming poetry collection The Tempest with Inanna Publications in 2021, her advocacy and activism, taking a stand. She will tell you about publishing her story “Murmuration”, her daughter’s sarcoidosis, archiving the pandemic. Making Tartys in Applis in the time of the Black Death plague, remembering her mother baking the Hungarian almás rétes, the scent of brown sugar and cinnamon wafting through her war refugee kitchen. Ilona Martonfi, author of The Snow Kimono and Salt Bride writes her Lockdown Diary during the quarantine of the Covid-19 Pandemic. ![]()
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