Sudbury Superstack: A Changing Skyline remembers city icon

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The Sudbury Writers’ Guild is releasing an anthology Sudbury Superstack: A Changing Skyline full of prose, poetry, facts, and images of the Sudbury Superstack ahead of its anticipated demolition.

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With 50 pieces of poetry and prose, alongside numerous stunning images and photographs, this collection is for anyone who loves, or loves to hate, the stack.

The book launch will be held on May 14 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Steelworkers Hall at 66 Brady St. The event will include remarks, readings from contributors, and some fun activities and photo opportunities related to the stack.

Books will cost $25 and will be available at the launch, through the Sudbury Writers’ Guild website at sudburywritersguild.com, or by contacting them via email at sudburywriters@gmail.com.

The Sudbury Writers’ Guild wishes to acknowledge the following for their contributions to this project:

• The Sudbury Writers’ Guild project committee: Thomas Leduc, Liisa Kovala, Nancy Daoust, Andy Taylor, Nicky Brown, Cathy Mulroy, Mat Del Papa.

• Kim Fahner, editor.

• The Sudbury Writers’ Guild and all its members.

• The Ontario Arts Council, for their generous grant and support of the arts.

• The City of Greater Sudbury, for their generous grant and support of the arts.

• Sherri Lavigne of Surreal Graphics, design and layout.

• Bertrand Photography, cover photo.

• Journal Printing, printing.

Background: In 2020, Vale announced their plans to decommission and tear down the Superstack. After more than 50 years in operation, it has made a permanent mark on the community.

In January 2023, the Sudbury Writers’ Guild invited members of the public and the Guild to submit poetry, prose, and images of Sudbury’s unique Superstack landmark.

The Sudbury Writers’ Guild has previously published Painted Voices, a chapbook of stories, poems, and photos from the public, inspired by the colourful mural that transformed the Sudbury General Hospital, as well as Sudbury Ink, an anthology of Sudbury Writers’ Guild members that contains poems, essays, and short stories.

Here is an excerpt from a piece titled My Father Worked for Inco, by Linda Derkacz: “Most Saturday evenings my parents, brother, sister and myself would pack into the car and drive to Copper Cliff. After an early bath and getting into pyjamas, the first stop was the smoke stack. Then we would drive to Dairy Queen on Lorne Street before watching the slag dumping once nightfall arrived.”

Here is poetry by Sydney Morgan:

smoke, upright cigar,

always brings me back home,

the north star of town.

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