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John P. Asling

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in Toronto, Canada

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Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories

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John P. Asling is a Toronto-born writer and editor living in Broadstairs on the Kent coast of England. His first short story collection - A Crack in Everything - was published in 2017. This was followed by Time Enough for Sadness, in 2019. He has published two dozen poems in Canada and the UK. He has been a youth worker, teacher, journalist and church executive. For the past fifteen years, he has been a freelance writer and editor. His stories have appeared in The Toronto Star, Litro Magazine and Sentinel Literary Quarterly. His first collection of poetry, tentatively titled, Love After Love Has Failed, is scheduled for publication in December 2023.

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My Year of Reading - 2024

You know that question they ask at the end of those literary interviews: ‘What book are you ashamed to have never read?’

Are you troubled by it? I’m not, really, though I admit I haven’t read classics such as Animal Farm or Moby Dick. However, I have ploughed through James Joyce’s Ulysses and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, behemoths that have defeated some very big readers I know. (Both are Read more of this blog post »

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Owls do Cry / The Pocket Mirror / An Angel at My Table

by Janet Frame

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John Asling made a comment on Martin’s status in Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) " I hope to read this book soon. "
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“It will all be wildly insane.
And friends will say, Not again!
But our walking will be like praying –
for new chapters, love,
after love had failed.”
― John P. Asling

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“It will all be wildly insane.
And friends will say, Not again!
But our walking will be like praying –
for new chapters, love,
after love had failed.'

From Walking With You at 7 a.m.
John P. Asling”
― John P. Asling

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