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Two Bowls of Milk

By Stephanie Bolster

Two Bowls of Milk is the follow-up to Stephanie Bolster’s debut collection of poems, White Stone: The Alice Poems, which won the 1998 Governor General’s Award for poetry. Whereas White Stone was tightly conceived around ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Lost August

By Esta Spalding

Poet and critic Fraser Sutherland recently remarked in The Globe and Mail on the healthy state of Canadian poetry and noted the even distribution of male and female poets writing in this country. Fans will ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Felix Roth

By Cary Fagan

Toronto author Cary Fagan has steadily developed a reputation as a writer of articulate and entertaining novels and short stories. Felix Roth, his eighth work of fiction, confirms Fagan as a writer of measurable talent. ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Swimming with Jonah

By Audrey Schulman

Audrey Schulman’s fictional debut, The Cage, traced the psychic breakthrough of a troubled magazine photographer assigned to shoot polar bears in the wild, from inside a metal cage. In bizarrely uneven prose, it nonetheless told ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

See the Child

By David Bergen

David Bergen has staked his literary claim to the turf of rural southern Manitoba, with its particular mix of French (read “earthy”) and Mennonite (read “repressed”) farming communities. In his last novel, he parsed a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels