The tone, timbre, and character of instruments change as they age. Amati violins – the oldest in playable condition – produce a depth of sound that comes from being played thousands of times over centuries. ... Read More »
April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
Some of the best poetry I’ve ever encountered was not on the page, but heard at a spoken-word night at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café. I was making a teenage pilgrimage in the sloshed ... Read More »
April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
Some of the best poetry I’ve ever encountered was not on the page, but heard at a spoken-word night at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café. I was making a teenage pilgrimage in the sloshed ... Read More »
April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
A single-thread narrative of the African-Canadian experience has long been sewn into the margins of Canadian history, resulting in a legacy of misappropriated cultures and residual resentments that has left generations of black Canadians voiceless. ... Read More »
April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
Lorna Goodison’s ninth book of poetry stands as a powerful testament to her reputation as one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated poets. Supplying Salt and Light reconstructs the Caribbean colonial quest undertaken by 16th-century Spanish ... Read More »
April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
The term “page turner” is more likely to be associated with mass-market thrillers than books of poetry. But in the case of Under the Keel, Michael Crummey’s first collection in a decade, the phrase suits ... Read More »
April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry
Since retiring from McGill University, novelist and essayist George Szanto has spent many hours looking out from his writing studio upon the “length and breadth of the bog” that bisects his property on B.C.’s Gabriola ... Read More »
April 1, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
This graphic novel is a winner. Skim is a unique creation by Mariko Tamaki, a Toronto-based writer and playwright, and her cousin, illustrator Jillian Tamaki, formerly of Edmonton and now living in New York, whose ... Read More »
March 28, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Ayelet Tsabari’s penetrating debut short-story collection begins with “Tikkun,” about a chance reunion in a Jerusalem café between two former lovers whose lives have followed divergent paths in the seven years since splitting up. Lior, ... Read More »
March 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
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