Category Archives: social commentary

Joyce Celebrates Release of Words from the Dead

Posted on March 6, 2022 by seanarthurjoyce

I’m proud to announce the publication of my tenth book, Words from the Dead: Relevant Readings in the Covid Age, published by Ekstasis Editions of Victoria, BC Canada.[1] My body of published work now includes poetry, a novel, Western Canadian … Continue reading →

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The Borg Are Coming For You… (and your children)

Posted on November 23, 2021 by seanarthurjoyce

Give me absolute control / Over every living soul… I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. —Leonard Cohen, “The Future” INTRODUCTION: This is Part 1 of a two-part essay that will appear in my forthcoming book, Words from … Continue reading →

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Bring Out Your Dead: Honouring Our Lost Ones

Posted on November 30, 2020 by seanarthurjoyce

“To trouble the public mind by crying ‘epidemic’ was no light thing.” —J.H. Powell, Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793, Time-Life Books, 1949 (1965 ed.) Part 1. The Sociopolitical I predict that … Continue reading →

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