Coming on the heels of Always Now, the monumental three-volume edition of Margaret Avison’s collected works, and the awarding of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize to her previous collection, Concrete and Wild Carrot, the bar ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Poetry
Despite the subtitle of this third in a series of collections of personal essays by Canadian women, Dropped Threads 3 rarely breaks away from a limited range of concerns and styles. The first-person singular is ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Playing guide to his readers, Edmonton author Rudy Wiebe leads us up into remote northern Saskatchewan to a predominantly Mennonite community called Speedwell, where his family took on the gruelling task of homesteading and farming ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
In Grade 5 French immersion, for reasons I can’t remember, my classmates and I came into the possession of T-shirts bearing the slogan: “Je Parle Français, Sometimes.” These shirts, needless to say, were a hit. ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Ryan Knighton began to lose his sight during his adolescence from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that caused the scarring and decay of his retinas. The Vancouver writer, editor, and teacher is now virtually blind, ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The late Stan Rowe was one of those rare individuals in activist circles: a true character with a gentle sense of humour and long-term worldview that tempered the threat of rhetorical overkill. A pacifist jailed ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The cult of pastoral life has long been part of the English identity. Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book Akenfield – a kind of lyrical ethnography of a Suffolk village, told in the voices of the villagers ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: History
Canada is often thought of as a country defined by its towering mountains, rolling plains, and shimmering lakes, but the fact is we’re an intensely urban nation – some 80% of Canucks currently reside in ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Timothy Taylor’s career has had an atypical trajectory so far. In 2000, he placed three short stories in the Journey Prize anthology, including that year’s winning tale. In 2001, his first novel, Stanley Park, hit ... Read More »
May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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