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About Seymour

Half my life was spent teaching Dead English Poets at various Canadian universities, the other half I managed to make end meet by writing and editing for government and industry. Retirement has meant that I can write what I want to write, which is incredibly satisfying.

Seymour Hamilton interviewed by Carol Anne Meehan

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Seymour
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Interview by Carol Anne Meehan, award-winning radio and tv journalist.  We talked mostly about The Astreya Trilogy and The Hippies Who Meant It.  Click Here

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Glenn Gould at 80

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Seymour
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I originally wrote and published this item a few years ago.  In upgrading my website, it vanished.  Here it is again. Glenn Gould would be 84, if he had not died in 1982 at the age of 50.  We all … Continue reading →

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A Conversation with Jessica Knauss, author of Awash in Talent

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Seymour
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Jessica: I’m not sure I would qualify Awash in Talent as an allegory per se, but I certainly intended the Talents to represent differences in society … that tend to be marginalized Continue reading →

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Miss Jane Fletcher, Writer

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Seymour
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This is my niece Jane in 2015. Here she is again, reading. When Jane is reading, she is in her own world. She is nine.  She wants to be a writer.  So I wrote to her early in 2016. Chelsea, … Continue reading →

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Apt 613 and Barb Collishaw review The Hippies Who Meant It

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Seymour
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What does it mean that they “meant it”? I think it’s the idea of perseverance, despite hardships and social ostracism. Continue reading →

Posted in The Hippies Who Meant It | Tagged 60's, Back to the Land, Hippies, Protest, Shirley MacKenzie, The Hippies Who Meant It, Vietnam War | Leave a reply

The Hippies Who Meant It featured in The Low Down

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Seymour
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Many thanks to Anastasia Philopoulos and The Low Down to Hull and Back. http://www.lowdownonline.com

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A review of Britannia’s Spartan by Antoine Vanner

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Seymour
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A glimpse into the most populous area of the world at a time when it was largely misunderstood or ignored by Europe and America. Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, Reviews and Interviews | Tagged 19C China Korea & Japan, Antoine Vanner, Historic Fiction, The Dawlish Chronicles | Leave a reply

The Road to Self Publishing

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Seymour
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The whole thing was strangely reminiscent of scoring a baggie of weed in those high and far off times about which The Hippies Who Meant It was written. Continue reading →

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Launching THE HIPPIES WHO MEANT IT

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Seymour
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My latest book, The Hippies Who Meant It, is now available on Amazon Kindle. It’s about American and Canadian young people in the 60’s who dropped out and went back to the land armed with pluck and naïveté.  It’s also a … Continue reading →

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My Music

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Seymour
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My first musical experience was undoubtedly my mother singing to me.  At the age of 68, on the ferry to the Isle of Skye, I found myself singing words and music I had never consciously learned.  I put that down … Continue reading →

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