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John Passfield is a Canadian author who is interested in exploring the development of the novel as an art-form. John has written over thirty novels, thirty planning notebooks and thirty journals in his search for a form for the poetic novel of our time. John was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, and continues to reside in Southern Ontario, near Cayuga, with his family.

John’s novel Saturday Morning was selected to the shortlist for the 2022 ReLit Awards and he has posted over 300 readings on YouTube, each of which presents a passage from one of his novels and a comment on an aspect of the craft of novel-writing.

John's novels include:

Grave Song: The Agony of Robert Chisholm
Jumbo: PT Barnum's Greatest Creation
Pinafore Park: The Swan Boat Incident
Water Lane: The Pilgrimage of Christopher Marlowe
Rain of Fire: The Ordeal of Conductor Spettigue
Victoria Day: The Fabric of the Community
The Wright Brothers: Flight is Possible
Leni Riefenstahl: The Valley of the Shadow
Out of the Park: The Cogitations of Babe Ruth
Raskolnikov: Murder with an Axe
Death Day: The Apology of Sergei Eisenstein
Einstein: Wonder
Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Bound
Ospringe: A Visit with Grandad
Pompeii: Vesuvius Dominus
Beethoven: The Ninth Immersion
Job: The Cornerstone of the Universe
Bethune: The Only Person Alive in the World
Terry Fox: Somewhere the Hurting Must Stop
Lord and Lady Macbeth: Full of Scorpions is My Mind
Cyril Passfield: Out West
Glenn Gould: Light and Dark
Emily Brontë: More Myself than I
L.M. Montgomery: I Gave You Life
Pauline Johnson: Know Who I Am
John Passfield: Saturday Morning
Eleonora Duse: Let Me Have My Wings
James McIntyre: The Mammoth Cheese
Shakespeare and Cleopatra: My Life is not My Own
John and Santa: The Cowboy Shirt
John and Cassandra: Fair is Fair
John and Dickens: A Christmas Mystery
John and Lewis Carroll: Wonder Fall
John and Mother Goose: The Carnival of Tales
John and the Universan: Nothing is Known
Chatterton: A Self of My Own
John and the Near-Myths: A Handful of Diamonds
John and the Neanderthals: Early Days

Other Books by John Passfield:

Steep Steps: 23 Short Stories
Oak Street: The Passfield Family
The Poetic Novel I: Influences and Elements
The Poetic Novel II: Influences and Elements
Intensities I: Verses on Various Topics
Intensities II: Verses on Various Topics
Intensities III: Verses on Various Topics
Intensities IV: Verses on Various Topics
Intensities V: Verses on Various Topics
Deepening Imagery I: Verses from the Novels
Deepening Imagery II: Verses from the Novels
Deepening Imagery III: Verses from the Novels
Deepening Imagery IV: Verses from the Novels
Deepening Imagery V: Verses from the Novels
Video Notes I: Notes from the Video-Readings
Video Notes II: Notes from the Video-Readings
Video Notes III: Notes from the Video-Readings