Carl Hare – Page 4 – Author, Poet, Teacher

On the River of Time

“A magnificent book. I am overwhelmed … every page captured me and I found it ringing in my head as you maintained style and rhythm throughout.
The characters lived."
- Ann Saddlemyer, Master Emerita, Scholar of Irish Theatre and Poetry & Master of Massey College

Publications now on Amazon

A Weathering of Years

These poems explore our ages by the season: Child’s adventure in untidy garden With its ancient, stooped gardener; young poet Begging in Seattle; celebrations Of birth, birthdays and of deaths; old Ibsens, Restless in their solace; backyard elegy; And more beside, all etched in shifting verse. Now available on Amazon.

Odysseus

Book One of the epic poem On the Breast of the River of Time, “Odysseus” recounts the final perilous quest the hero had to undertake. Now available on Amazon.

Spenser

The second of the epic trilogy, On the River of Time, which examines three figures – one mythical, one historical, and one fictional – from different time periods spanning almost three thousand years: Odysseus in Greece; Spenser, the poet, in Ireland; and Archer, a renegade actor/director in Canada. Now available on Amazon.

Latest Blog Posts

Music’s muse is woman fair

March 4, 2019 March 8, 2019

In the last blog I told you that the festive season had reminded me of a soiree that Ibsen and his wife Suzannah gave in my play, The Eagle and the Tiger, and I let the narrator give you a brief introduction for each of the guests. It did not…

Find yourself through your own voice and act

March 4, 2019 March 25, 2019

To Selma’s cry for an answer, Brack dismisses the idea of woman as artist, and the arguments rage on about the nature of woman and man until Suzannah asks if Selma’s question has been answered. Both Falk and Ibsen tell her that she must follow her drive, whatever it may…

About Carl Hare

Carl Hare in his long career has been a professor, actor, director, playwright, and poet. His most recent work includes performances of his play The Eagle and the Tiger and his adaptation of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman; the setting of six of his children’s poems to music by Canadian composer Malcolm Forsyth; a commissioned poem for Forsyth’s A Ballad of Canada, performed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra; and A Weathering of Years, a collection of poetry published in 2015.