![Hopkins, A Suite of Voices](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/suiteofvoices-470x140.jpg)
This is a collaborative poem by one American and two Australian poets that explores Gerard Manley Hopkins’s philosophical themes found both in his poetry and in the personal struggles of his inner life.
![The Echo of Titus](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/titus-470x140.jpg)
It was New Year’s Day at eight in the morning when I looked out the window, hung over and blurry-eyed, to see my neighbour, Ivy…
![Mansfield Park](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mansfield-470x140.jpg)
Homing “So, you like it?” Navin asked Puja as they got into the car. “Mansfield Park…” Puja tossed the name into the air. “It is…
![Uncle Bernie's House](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bernieshouse-470x140.jpg)
I stepped into the living room of my Uncle Bernie’s modest bungalow near Islington and Bloor. The banana yellow walls of the quaint room gave…
![Wading into the Ocean](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ocean-470x140.jpg)
we are on our travels with
the remains of conversations we almost had,
promises cracked through the middle,
wrapped in the cloth that blinds us
![Story... Unfinished...](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/storyunfinished-470x140.jpg)
The moon’s not yet quite there, and the buildings are hideous,
at most a woman on the corner, or a student lost in sartre and making the world’s riddles
![Heritage](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/heritage-470x140.jpg)
By the time their sons learn the meaning of sunset,
only father’s hands remain,
and the plow and the field.
![The Art of Chrysanthemums](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/chrysanthemum-470x140.jpg)
Today I raked a melody
with syllables culled from your lips.
But I miss you when you gather
chrysanthemums each morning;
![The Judgment by Franz Kafka](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/readingroom-470x140.jpg)
Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.