Reviews

Foreign Homes

Joan Crate published her first poetry book a dozen years ago, and the deftness of this second appearance is enough to recommend a similar gestation period to today’s crop of grant-starved, print-hungry poets. Without investing ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Girls and Handsome Dogs

By Norm Sibum

It is difficult to write poetry about God, alcohol, the disenfranchised, and spiritual identity without rewriting every post-modern poetic cliché offered up over the last 50 years. Poet Norm Sibum is up to the challenge, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Wrestling with Rhinos

By Dr. Jerry Haigh

Wrestling with Rhinos, a memoir from Saskatoon-based veterinary professor Dr. Jerry Haigh, follows Haigh’s exploits as a young veterinarian during the 10 years he spent in Kenya in the 1960s and 1970s. Less than a ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads

By Michael W. Higgins and Douglas R. Letson

Vast in its coverage and thorough in its analysis, Power and Peril is an encyclopedic journey through a church unwilling to change in the face of great social upheaval. Michael W. Higgins, president of St. ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Lock Me up or Let Me Go: The Protests, Arrest and Trial of an Environmental Activist and Grandmother

By Betty Krawczyk

Lock Me Up or Let Me Go opens with “environmental activist and grandmother” Betty Krawczyk’s courtroom battle with Justice Parrett of the B.C. judicial system. Krawczyk’s initial arrest occurred at the Clayoquot Sound blockades in ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Well of Lies: The Walkerton Water Tragedy

By Colin N. Perkel

In May 2000 in the community of Walkerton, Ontario, seven people died and over 2,000 others became ill from the vicious and often permanent effects of E. Coli poisoning. The source of the contamination was ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Landscapes of the Heart: Narratives of Nature and Self

By Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson, eds.

The essays collected by Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson in Landscapes of the Heart till the fertile ground plowed by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, focusing on writers’ personal relationships with the natural world. Missing ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet

By David Suzuki and Holly Dressel

The environmental movement has endured a reputation for negativity since its inception. To simply acknowledge the science behind environmentalism is to embrace this negativity – most of the things that so-called developed human society does ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hope: Adventures of a Diamond

By Marian Fowler

The Hope diamond has a Zelig-like habit of surfacing in the most storied and fantastical chapters in history, including the first Western forays to India, the court of the Sun King at Versailles, and the ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: History

How Linda Died

By Frank Davey

Linda Davey, a former ballet dancer, lawyer, literary agent, and editorial board member of Coach House Press, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer in the spring of 1999 and died a year later. During his ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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