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World Poetry Day: Duncan Mercredi
Mar 21, 2022
We’ve got a selection of poems by Duncan Mercredi (featured in our winter 2021-22 issue) in their entirety to celebrate World Poetry Day! Our thanks to Duncan for letting us post these and to Pierrette Boily of Pierrette Boily Photographie for allowing us to use these fabulous pictures of Duncan. Happy reading! Misipawistik i’d watch […]
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Field Requiem by Sheri Benning
Mar 14, 2022
Sheri Benning’s fourth book of poems, Field Requiem, takes its title and structure from the Latin Requiem Mass that is offered as a eulogy to the dead. The collection is divided into five sections and witnesses the social and ecological impact that the agro-industry has had on rural Saskatchewan. In the opening poem, “Winter Sleep”, […]
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Girl running by Diana Hope Tegenkamp
Mar 2, 2022
Diana Hope Tegenkamp’s debut book of poetry, Girl running, is a fascinating collection filled with vivid language and startling images that invites us to reflect on sudden disappearances, tender daily connections and spectral appearances which haunt and reveal. The poet divides the collection into six sections: Spectra, Arterial, Each Breath an Oar, Quarry, Fata Morgana […]
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What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light: New Poetry by Marilyn Bowering
Feb 22, 2022
The poems in What is Long Past Occurs in Full Light: New Poetry, Marilyn Bowering’s most recent poetry collection, wrap with care around the tender pairings of presence and absence, the present and the past. In each of the book’s three parts—“Missing,” “Woof –at the Door – Woof,” and “The Writers’ Museum”—Bowering meditates on a […]
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August Into Winter by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Feb 11, 2022
August Into Winter by Saskatchewan writer Guy Vanderhaeghe is an enormous gift to fiction lovers: a wonderfully paced, character-driven novel of ideas, an authentic depiction of individuals and a world in crisis. The year is 1939, war is on the horizon, and in the small town of Connaught, a series of pranks committed by a […]
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nedi nezu (Good Medicine) by Tenille K. Campbell
Jan 24, 2022
nedi nezu (Good Medicine), a poetry collection by Tenille K. Campbell, lets readers into her life to intimately experience themes of life, dating, sex and relationships. Like her first poetry book, #IndianLovePoems, Campbell continues to offer a fresh Indigenous perspective on the complications and beliefs of society through a sexual lens where readers witness the […]
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