Hendrik Slegtenhorst – Publications & Writer’s CV
CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY Hendrik Slegtenhorst is a Canadian author and the managing principal of Falstaff Enterprises. He lives in Edmonton, and has worked throughout Canada, and in the United States,...
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1. Book Caravaggio’s Dagger (A Pursuit of Right Action), poetry, Iguana Books (Toronto, ON), 120 pp., 2013. Print, Kindle, and e-Pub editions. ISBN 978-1-77180-015-0. 2. Literary Publications...
View ArticleThe Decay of Power – Mahler and Freud Meet in Leiden I:I:4 – Chrysoglott
In 2009 I worked as the chief administrative officer of St. Stephen, New Brunswick. That February, Mayor Jed Purcell, prominent businessmen, and I, all steering the town’s civic centre project were...
View ArticleAmalgamation and Community Identity
Civil Thoughts Series As published in: Municipal World (St. Thomas, ON), 118/11, 43 (November 2008). Amalgamation and Community Identity (Municipal World, November 2008) Amalgamation is a touchy...
View ArticleEaster & the Johannes-Passion of Bach
When I had the good fortune to work in New Brunswick for several years, I often drove from St. Stephen, where I was chief administrative officer, to meet with colleagues or politicians in Saint...
View ArticleSan Antonio, Texas – The Economic Benefit of Urban Heritage Preservation
San Antonio, Texas, founded 300 years ago, has actively and successfully promoted urban restoration for some 90 years. The City has devised a modern strategic historic preservation plan that makes...
View ArticleLiterary Presence, Or, Some Preliminary Fundamentals of Being Seen
How to assess literary festivals, conferences, and publications; and the effect of the publication of a first book. (WestWord, Edmonton, 34/4, 23, July-August 2014) Filed under: Caravaggio's Dagger...
View ArticleLetters to Urban Friends: Winter in Peace River, 2012
November 2011 – January 2012 Peace River, Alberta It’s quite snowy here, and the hills in and around town difficult to drive. Banff was much easier. I see from the news that Edmonton had a bad time of...
View ArticleBeethoven – Piano Sonata 29 in B♭, Op. 106 (1818)
This work, with its firm and certain compound of optimism, tenderness, melancholy, and assertion, was a favourite of mine when I moved to Peace River in 2011. It must have been the river, which I saw...
View ArticleCaravaggio’s Dagger – Review by John Ferguson, Chief Administrative Officer,...
John Ferguson is the chief administrative officer of the Municipal County of Annapolis, along the Fundy shore of Nova Scotia. Until recently he had been my successor as the chief administrative officer...
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