by Ariel Gordon

Carol Rose Daniels’s debut poetry collection explores concepts of healing and balance in the aftermath of the Sixties Scoop

Carol Rose Daniels is probably best known for being the first Indigenous woman to anchor a national news broadcast in Canada when she joined CBC’s Newsworld in 1989. Having spent three decades reporting for CBC, ... Read More »

April 23, 2018

McNally Robinson opens new store in Winnipeg’s Forks Market

By Ariel Gordon

In the 30 years since downtown Winnipeg's Forks Market and the Forks National Historical Site were established, the venue has expanded to include the Human Rights Museum and an outdoor concert venue that has hosted ... Read More »

March 5, 2018

Book-launch venue hop: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg

By Ariel Gordon

Each month, Q&Q visits dingy watering holes, upscale cafés, and other haunts in search of the country's most beloved book launch venues McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park store may be located in a suburban Winnipeg ... Read More »

June 1, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture, Events, Writing life

Poetry Month Q&A: Elena Johnson on nature poetry, data, and writing from the alpine tundra

By Ariel Gordon

Elena Johnson is a Vancouver-based poet who recently launched her first book, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra (Gaspereau Press). The collection was written and researched during a month-long stint in 2008 as writer-in-residence at ... Read More »

May 1, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Poetry Month Q&A: K.I. Press on motherhood and her latest collection

By Ariel Gordon

Originally from rural Alberta, poet K.I. Press has lived in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Ottawa. She’s now lived in Winnipeg for a decade, long enough, she says, that it “has slowed down the pace at ... Read More »

April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Poetry Month Q&A: Bren Simmers on writing from and to her neighbourhood

By Ariel Gordon

Bren Simmers’ second collection, Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions), is a long poem that spans a year of living in the East Vancouver residential neighbourhood, one of the city's oldest. Though she is now based in Squamish, ... Read More »

April 21, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Quill and Quire

Carol Rose Daniels’s debut poetry collection explores concepts of healing and balance in the aftermath of the Sixties Scoop

McNally Robinson opens new store in Winnipeg’s Forks Market

Book-launch venue hop: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Winnipeg

Poetry Month Q&A: Elena Johnson on nature poetry, data, and writing from the alpine tundra

Poetry Month Q&A: K.I. Press on motherhood and her latest collection

Poetry Month Q&A: Bren Simmers on writing from and to her neighbourhood

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