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Orphic Politics

By Tim Lilburn

Orphic Politics is the seventh collection from Victoria-based poet Tim Lilburn, the first since his GG-winning Kill-Site. In this new book, he sings his traditional eco-mystical preoccupations in what has become his signature style. Lilburn ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

The Calling

By Inger Ash Wolfe

One of the nice things about reviewing The Calling, the first novel from pseudonymous “well-known and well-regarded North American writer” Inger Ash Wolfe, is that one can avoid entirely the question of who Wolfe is ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sun Going Down

By Jack Todd

Jack Todd is best-known for his hard-hitting sports journalism in Montreal’s The Gazette and his 2001 memoir of dodging the draft, The Taste of Metal. Unfortunately, the road from non-fiction to fiction is not always ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barnacle Love

By Anthony De Sa

The latest trend to grip Canadian publishing – immigrant literature – has been both refreshing and an inevitablity. It has given prominence to the voices of a significant and influential group within Canadian society – ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Gerbil Mother

By D.M. Bryan

Gerbil Mother asks readers to overcome an impossible premise: that a fetus, age zero, can be a conscious, thinking, seeing thing. A narrator, even. One named Gerbil. Calgary-based D.M. Bryan’s first novel is a story ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Darren Effect

By Libby Creelman

Eight years after publishing a well-received book of short stories, Massachusetts-born, Newfoundland-based writer Libby Creelman has written a remarkably self-assured first novel with characters that must surely exist somewhere outside of its deftly written pages. ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels