Corporate Abuse: How Lean and Mean Robs People and Profits

Management fashion has held downsizing, alias rightsizing, in high regard since IBM rescued itself and returned to financial respectability by firing a couple of Skydomes worth of employees. Lesley Wright, a former advertising executive, and Martin ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Prosody at the Cafe Du Coin

By Jeff Bien

“The poet must know style,” writes Jeff Bien in Prosody at the Cafe du Coin “or he will simply be a complainer.” This eastern Ontario poet has style: entire oceans, trans-continental highways, and sprawling metropoli ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

America & Other Poems

By Jeff Bien

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Tongues of the Children: The Upper Canada Chronicles

By John B. Lee

In 1995, prolific Brantford poet John B. Lee won the CBC Tilden Award for “Kicheraboo, We Are Dying,” an ethnographically valuable series of poems about slavery and the history of blacks in Upper Canada. The ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Arguments with Gravity

By Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey’s first book of poems, Arguments with Gravity is broken into five sections, each introduced by a contemporary epigram that encapsulates the poet’s concerns and acknowledges his influences. Unfortunately, everyone else is alive in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

How to Grow Your Own Light Bulbs

By John Riddell

No stranger to fans of local micro press publications, veteran Toronto language writer John Riddell is the author of Criss-Cross and E clips E, as well as the creator of assorted textual goodies that have ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ White Linen Remembered

By Marya Fiamengo

The biographical note to Marya Fiamengo’s latest collection describes the West Vancouver writer ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum: A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie

By Wendy Lill

Modern Quebec theatre was born in 1965, when Michel Tremblay stopped writing plays in French French (in works that he came to call “foreign subliterature”) and started, with Les belles soeurs, writing them in joual.In ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

By Michel Tremblay, John van Burek and Bill Glassco, trans.

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Vigil

By Morris Panych

The titles of two new plays – 1995 GG-winner Jason Sherman’s The Retreat and 1994 GG-winner Morris Panych’s Vigil – conjure up images of intimate, solemn religious rituals. Both plays are, however, nominally comedies, and ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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