Old MacDonald Had Her Farm

By JonArno Lawson; Tina Holdcroft, illus.

Toronto poet and author JonArno Lawson puts a new spin on the well-known children’s song, replacing the familiar E-I-E-I-O refrain with A-E-I-O-U (and sometimes Y) in a bid to teach children their vowels. Each vowel, ... Read More »

June 27, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books

Uncle Wally’s Old Brown Shoe

By Wallace Edwards

The main appeal of a book by Wallace Edwards is its astounding illustrations. Trained at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Edwards has garnered acclaim for his artistic talent since his first ... Read More »

June 27, 2012 | Filed under: Picture Books

Midnight Embers: A Book of Sonnets

By Candice James

Candice James’s first book of poetry, 1979’s A Split in the Water, illustrated her deep soul and ripe intellect. Instead of pursuing poetry, however, she spent 30 years working as a singer-songwriter and bass player. ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Impact: The Titanic Poems

By Billeh Nickerson

What more can be said about the RMS Titanic? After 100 years and countless books, articles, and movies, is there a new way of looking at the disaster? Vancouver poet Billeh Nickerson finds a fresh ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

★ All Is Flesh

By Yannick Renaud; Hugh Hazelton, trans.

Part meditation on mourning, part discourse on the body, part exploration of the physics of human love, All Is Flesh collects Hugh Hazelton’s English translations of Quebec-based poet Yannick Renaud’s first two books, Taxidermy and ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Poetry

Master & Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN

By Peter Thomas and Nicholas Tracy

On June 1, 1823, Anthony Lockwood, Surveyor General of New Brunswick, rode down the streets of Fredericton waving pistols at passersby in a bid to take over the government. How a man of low birth ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: History

The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories

By Keith Oatley

A recipient’s first response to any work of art, suggests Ray Robertson, is probably somatic. For Robertson, we react to a book or a painting or a piece of music first on an emotional level, ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Thieves of Bay Street: How Banks, Brokerages and the Wealthy Steal Billions from Canadians

By Bruce Livesey

During the global economic meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent recession, Canadians maintained an unusually triumphant mood. The apparent strength of the banking system and the absence of a collapse in real estate prices led ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

By Taras Grescoe

With his talent for description and rhythmic prose, it is easy to appreciate the accolades Taras Grescoe has garnered in recent years. Grescoe is the author of four previous books, including Bottomfeeder, a bestseller and ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The End of Growth

By Jeff Rubin

In 1967, when Leonard Cohen sang that the mysterious Suzanne “feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China,” the distance those delicacies had travelled magnified their exoticism. You’re unlikely to find ... Read More »

June 26, 2012 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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