My spoken lyric video Prayer for the Blessed Order of Castrati is an excerpt from my upcoming novel Poor Man’s Opera.

Steven Mayoff (he/him) is a Canadian novelist, poet, lyricist and librettist living on Prince Edward Island, aka Abegweit, home of the Mi’kmaq for thousands of years before any of us settlers showed up. I am proud and humbled to call this island my home and grateful to share it with the First Nations community.

#canlit #fiction #novel #speculativefiction #satire #politics #lyric #libretto #measureformeasure #shakespeare #spokenword #galleonbooks #canada #autocracy #tyranny #toronto #montreal #citystate #citizens #citizenry #ruler #power #corruption #castration #religion #monastery

https://youtu.be/QOY90ZRWaLE?si=pMv060JKhYguZw1o

The spoken word video for the 3rd excerpt from my upcoming novel Poor Man’s Opera is now up on YouTube.

Steven Mayoff (he/him) is a Canadian novelist, poet, lyricist and librettist living on Prince Edward Island. His web site is www.stevenmayoff.ca

#canlit #fiction #novel #speculativefiction #satire #politics #measureformeasure #shakespeare #spokenword #galleonbooks #canada #autocracy #tyranny #toronto #montreal #citystate #citizens #citizenry #ruler #power #corruption

https://youtu.be/xJCGVxCQs-0?si=AxD9lxKF_pKIDxEt

I am pleased to announce that my upcoming novel, Poor Man’s Opera, whose narrator is a gender-fluid Tarot reader and unofficial advisor to a powerful political figure in the futuristic city-state of New Old York, now has an official release date which is August 15, 2026.

A Charlottetown launch is now in the works and I’m hoping for launches in Toronto and Moncton as well. Dates will be announced as they become confirmed.

Poor Man’s Opera will be published by Galleon Books.

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My spoken lyric video Kitchen Sink Opera ( from my upcoming novel Poor Man’s Opera) is now up on YouTube.

©Kitchen Sink Opera by Steven Mayoff 2025

Steven Mayoff is a Canadian novelist, poet and lyricist living in Prince Edward Island. His web site is www.stevenmayoff.ca

#lyric #spokenword #canlit #novel #fiction #galleonbooks #poormansopera #genderfluid #dystopian #sex #satire #politics #citystate #authoritarian #medicalprocedure #secondclasscitizens #literarymusical #cabaret #brothel

https://youtu.be/YSQ-0zNM81o?si=37cnluTy2mMXnEdI

The spoken word video, a second excerpt from my upcoming novel Poor Man’s Opera is up on YouTube.

©Poor Man’s Opera by Steven Mayoff 2025

Steven Mayoff is a Canadian novelist, poet and lyricist living in Prince Edward Island. His web site is www.stevenmayoff.ca

#spokenword #canlit #novel #fiction #galleonbooks #poormansopera #genderfluid #dystopian #sex #satire #politics #citystate #authoritarian #medicalprocedure #secondclasscitizens #literarymusical #cabaret #brothel

https://youtu.be/z6YhHlmpJHA?si=vz5qm-oKxVN7qRIG

I thought that Singapore was a city.

Now I know that it's a city-state, which is both a city and a country at the same time.

#Singapore #city #state #country #CityState #Blog #opinion #thought #blogging #knowledge #concept #term #geography

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#Borgríki

Film islandese che si dipana nel mondo della criminalità, con varie storie che si intrecciano.
Vista la durata esigua del film, forse c'è troppa carne al fuoco.

📝Voto: 6-
"Borgríki" di Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, 87 minuti, 2011-
-Islanda. Un immigrato giura vendetta dopo aver perso il suo bambino non ancora nato a causa di un attacco sferrato dal cartello dello spaccio. Così facendo lega il suo destino a quello di una poliziotta dall'animo tormentato, a quello del suo corrotto comandante, ed anche a quello di un boss del crimine…- da themoviedb.org

#cinema #film #Movies #12luglio #cineMastodon #cineItalia

Archaeoethnologica: POLIS, a new history - Book / POLIS, uma nova História - Livro

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/10/polis-uma-nova-historia.html

#Antiquity #AncientHistory #Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Greece #Polis #CityState #InstitutionalHistory #Politics #Books #ClassicalStudies #PoliticalHistory #State #city #classicalstudies

Archaeoethnologica: POLIS, a new history - Book / POLIS, uma nova História - Livro

+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/10/polis-uma-nova-historia.html

#Antiquity #AncientHistory #Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #Greece #Polis #CityState #InstitutionalHistory #Politics #Books #ClassicalStudies #PoliticalHistory #State #city #classicalstudies