photo: m + e photography
My name is Andreae (pronounced ann-DRAY-ah) Callanan, and I'm a poet, essayist, and critic in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. I'm also a PhD student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a 2019 Vanier and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholar. All opinions expressed here are my own.
I respectfully and gratefully acknowledge the territory in which I live and work as the ancestral homeland of the Beothuk, and the island of Newfoundland as the ancestral homeland of the Mi'kmaq and Beothuk. I also recognize the Inuit of Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut and the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors, as the original people of Labrador.
This blog began as an assignment for a graduate seminar on public intellectualism. Early posts reflect the readings and discussion questions assigned for that course.
Some of my other writing can be found at the links below.
Poetry
Crown, Anstruther Press 2019
Criticism and reviews:
To Name a Few (Review of The Elements by Erín Moure and Drolleries by Cassidy McFadzean) (Canadian Notes and Queries Number 104)
New Myths, Old Ideas: Irving Layton’s The Shattered Plinths is still awful (Canadian Notes and Queries Number 103)
Working the Rock: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Photographs of Edith S. Watson, 1890-1930 (review)
The Xenotext's Woman Problem
A Loss for Words (review of Injun by Jordan Abel)
Motherhood Consumes the Poet (review of A Pillow Book by Suzanne Buffam)
Politics
Let's leave the gaslighting for movie villains and keep it out of the House of Assembly
The Debt
Making Muskrat Right
Ready for a Fight