War poet.
Via reader Les, who writes – “I know Susanne and she is a person of integrity. There are not to many artists who made their living in their 20’s planting trees in the uplands of BC instead of tapping government grants. I cannot imagine anyone more qualified person to fill this historical role with the Canadian military. She will tell the stories of the military people with care and attention.”
Just read every entry in her Diary.
The lady gets it.
My gawd !
A Canadian female artist who doesn’t whine, bitch & complain, who doesn’t live by having a lip lock on the public teat and who doesn’t believe she is entitled to her entitlements.
Sounds familiar !
Doesn’t she just!
let me guess , its not Margaret Atwood?
The woman who morphed into some kind of wierdly crazy vision of PET? No not her.
“wierdly crazy vision of PET?”
Arf! Good one!
Ms. Steele deserves more attention than she’s getting, glad Kate posted this. Great website.
Thanks Kate. I think I’m going to pour a small glass of port and read it through again.
Thank you for bring her to our attention. David
I hope that people take the time to read the May Day portion of this site.
cant help myself , its early but its the only war haiku I know. its called pearl harbour.
A cold december morning
the sailor shivers
a nip in the air.
Get this – she actually *gets up* and *eats field rations*, and then goes out on an adventure
That’s the mark of a true artist my friends – she not only has commentary – she has words to share based on *relevant experience*
Quite the concept, non???
Suzanne Steele seems to be a woman of true grit. Finally, an artist who isn’t a bullshi**er … Our military deserves only the best.
I going to seem like a nit-picker here, but her writing doesn’t have capitalization. It always bugs me when writers affect that all lower-case, punctuation-optional style.
The reason for proper punctuation and capitalization is to make the reading easier for your audience.
The eyes struggle to find the ‘rhythm’ of writing, without the proper cues.