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Anatomy of Keys

By Steven Price

Anatomy of Keys is Victoria-based poet and teacher Steven Price’s first book. A poetic biography of Harry Houdini, its closest generic analogues in Canadian literature are Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and ... Read More »

July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Book of Longing

By Leonard Cohen

Much of Leonard Cohen’s work (and most of his life) has been characterized by a vacillation between two poles. Cohen has always embraced the dynamic tension between the opposing forces of the holy and the ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Joyland

By Emily Schultz

Everyone can relate to the teenage summer: hours spent in listless anticipation of something better. Agonizingly dull days rolling into even duller nights, where it seems as though adulthood will never come, sex is so ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Children of Chaos

By Dave Duncan

Victoria, B.C.’s Dave Duncan has long been one of the great unsung figures of Canadian fantasy and science fiction, graced with a fertile imagination, a prolific output, and keen writerly skills. With this new novel, ... Read More »

July 19, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels