Reviews

Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather

Marq de Villiers, the Nova Scotia-based winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Water and co-author of 2004’s A Dune Adrift, a history of his home province’s remote Sable Island, is back with another ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Liar

By Lynn Crosbie

Toronto-based writer and teacher Lynn Crosbie’s latest book is a long poem chronicling the disintegration of a relationship. As such, Liar is generically related to such high-profile works as Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Black

By George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke is one of Canada’s most prominent literary citizens. His work to date has garnered praise and prizes galore. And justly so. The problem with being a prominent literary citizen, however, is that ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Momentary Dark

By Margaret Avison

Coming on the heels of Always Now, the monumental three-volume edition of Margaret Avison’s collected works, and the awarding of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize to her previous collection, Concrete and Wild Carrot, the bar ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry

Dropped Threads 3: Beyond the Small Circle

By Marjorie Anderson, ed.

Despite the subtitle of this third in a series of collections of personal essays by Canadian women, Dropped Threads 3 rarely breaks away from a limited range of concerns and styles. The first-person singular is ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

By Rudy Wiebe

Playing guide to his readers, Edmonton author Rudy Wiebe leads us up into remote northern Saskatchewan to a predominantly Mennonite community called Speedwell, where his family took on the gruelling task of homesteading and farming ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sorry, I Don’t Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won’t Go Away

By Graham Fraser

In Grade 5 French immersion, for reasons I can’t remember, my classmates and I came into the possession of T-shirts bearing the slogan: “Je Parle Français, Sometimes.” These shirts, needless to say, were a hit. ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Cockeyed

By Ryan Knighton

Ryan Knighton began to lose his sight during his adolescence from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that caused the scarring and decay of his retinas. The Vancouver writer, editor, and teacher is now virtually blind, ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Earth Alive: Essays on Ecology

By Stan Rowe; Don Kerr, ed.

The late Stan Rowe was one of those rare individuals in activist circles: a true character with a gentle sense of humour and long-term worldview that tempered the threat of rhetorical overkill. A pacifist jailed ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Return to Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century

By Craig Taylor

The cult of pastoral life has long been part of the English identity. Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book Akenfield – a kind of lyrical ethnography of a Suffolk village, told in the voices of the villagers ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: History

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