Canadian Macedonian Poetry


  • Spero Thompson
    Grandmother Macedonia Macedonian Roots in Canadian Soil A Tree of Literature I Thought My Name was Drvo (a short story) This Macedonian Sun Ilinden (an Historical Inheritance) Ode To Macedonia Red Egg Day in Cabbagetown (a short story) Spirit of Mother Macedonia My Father and the Prince (a short story) Brother Poet The Voice of His Hands The Choir Macedonian Girl...Canadian Woman Language and the Macedonian Woman Jack London and the Macedonian Who Couldn't Read (a short story) 
  • Patsy Sider
    Biography The Letter "Z" My Name is Macedonia O, Blessed Canada John Bitove Vassa Evans O, Archimandrite, Nikodim Tsirknias Her Opinion The Miser Danny Stoitsevski (1925-1988) My Macedonian Grandfather With The Donkey The Mountain Climber My Handsome Mountain My Beloved Father, Avraam Bossota (1908-1957) For You Mother. Konstantina Bossota The Canadian Citizens from Florina Macedonian Heritage The Greek Pedagogy Song For the Refugees of Aegean Macedonia Her Macedonian Life in Greece The Macedonian Villager The Macedonian People The Macedonian Prayer The Heartless Greek Politicians Glorious Macedonia The Civil War 
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    The role and function of Macedonian poetry in Canada represents the most direct way of expressing
    the spirit of the old world surrounded by the conditions faced in the new world. This genesis began
    over 100 years ago as the first Macedonians began migrating to Canada. The historical circumstances
    developed a truly Canadian Macedonian poetic narrative which the Canadian Macedonian Heritage
    Society presents to you the reader. The selected poems are just a sample of some of the works of
    Canadian citizens of Macedonian descent.

    Spero Thompson is a colleague and contributing writer of the Brachi Miladinovci Macedonian Poetry
    and Literary Society of Saint Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Ontario.

    Patsy Sider-Aspassia Bossota is the author of five poetry books entitled "Diary of a Soul (1998)"
    "A Spark from the Ashes (1998)" "Between Two Worlds (2000)" "The Joy of Justice (2003)" "Prohibited
    Culture (2006)" a book of Short Stories entitled "Amazing Garden"(2009) and author of many other poems and short stories. Poems from "Between Two Worlds" are presented for your reading.

    They are following in the footsteps of the first representatives of modern Macedonian literature at
    the beginning of the 19th century. These include, Joakim Krcovski, Kiril Pejcinovik, Dimitar and
    Konstantin Miladinov, Grigor Prlicev, and Rajko Zinzifov. It was further developed in the 20th
    century by Vojdan Cernodrinski, Nikola Kirov - Majski and Atanas Razdolov. Then the development of
    Macedonian Literature continued with Koco Racin, who is considered to be the founder of modern
    Macedonian literature.

    The first post-war generation of Macedonian poets, include Blaze Koneski, Aco Sopov, Slavko
    Janevski, Vlado Maleski and Kole Casule. The new generation of Macedonian writers appeared in the
    early 1950s, encompassing among others Gane Todorovski, Mateja Matevski, Dimitar Solev, Ante
    Popovski, Boris Visinski and Simon Drakul. They were followed by, Zivko Cingo, Petre M. Andreevski,
    Radovan Pavlovski, Jovan Koteski and many others.