News & Extras
Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests by Ariel Gordon
Feb 6, 2020
I began reading Ariel Gordon’s Treed a day or two before October’s unseasonal and devastating storm. This storm, which dropped heavy wet snow all over Manitoba, had an immediate and destructive impact on our trees, trees that had been coming to life for me in Gordon’s essays and meditations on their place in our environment and their meaning […]
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river woman by Katherena Vermette
Jan 28, 2020
Intensely political and personal, Katherena Vermette’s second book of poems, river woman, achieves the impact and appeal
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Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (Kulilu Patki)
Jan 16, 2020
In her introduction to Vera Manuel’s collection Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Plays, Emalene A. Manuel remembers
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Yellow Crane By Susan Gillis
Jan 6, 2020
As I write this review from Halifax, a yellow crane lays crumpled at one of the city’s busiest intersections.
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Ordinary Strangers by Bill Stenson
Dec 19, 2019
‘Ordinary’ and ‘strangers’ are two words that seem contradictory. Yet they fit in this fine book by Bill Stenson, author of Svoboda and Hanne and Her Brothers among others.
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The Old Songs By Madeline Coopsammy
Dec 9, 2019
Coopsammy’s novel, set in Trinidad in the 1950’s, features Tessa Joseph who is eight years old when the story begins and nineteen when it ends with her leaving the island, having won a scholarship to attend university in Delhi.
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