Reviews

The Colours of the Forest

For years, British Columbia poet Tom Wayman has had a reputation for writing accessible, witty poetry about the everyday themes of work, home, and family. Wayman’s latest effort, The Colours of the Forest, bills itself ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Climates

By Herménégilde Chiasson, Fred Cogswell and Jo-Anne Elder, trans.

Reading Herménégilde Chiasson, one is reminded that there are people in the world for whom art is oxygen, insulin, blood. The poems of this multidisciplinary Acadian (he is also a photographer, printmaker, filmmaker, and playwright, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Mona Lisa Smiled a Little

By Rachel Wyatt

To each their own: words that sum up the ideal and the struggle faced by the characters in Mona Lisa Smiled a Little. Alameida Kerwell has the ideal nuclear family: a husband, two grown daughters, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strange and Familiar Places

By Kenneth Radu

Daydreaming about sex has gotten more than one person through a boring church service, but Kenneth Radu’s Strange and Familiar Places carries mental escapism to new heights. Radu’s heroine Evelyn is always on the lookout ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ White Lung

By Grant Buday

Grant Buday has an exceptional talent for creating characters who are resonantly alive, frequently funny, largely despicable, yet unavoidably sympathetic.In his latest book, Buday creates a rollicking black comedy of errors with moments of genuine ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Wish Book: A Catalogue of Stories

By Derek McCormack

If, say, Flannery O’Connor and oh, say, David Lynch were to meet in, let’s just say, a fetish club somewhere, and decide that they were born to collaborate, the product of their mindmeld might read ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Plenty: A Collection of Sarah McLachlan’s Favourite Recipes

By Sarah McLachlan with Jaime Laurita

There are two kinds of celebrity cookbooks: those by chefs famous for their culinary skills, and those by stars of stage or screen who claim they like to unwind in the kitchen. Among the luminaries ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink