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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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From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History by Adriana A. Davies
Jan 5, 2022
In From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta’s Italian History, author, researcher, and curator Adriana A. Davies crafts a detailed narrative about how an immigrant community impacted and was impacted by the formation of modern-day Alberta. This is an expertly-researched but inconsistently engaging book that takes the reader on a journey from the earliest of Italian sojourners […]
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Nowadays and Lonelier by Carmella Gray-Cosgrove
Dec 13, 2021
Inspired by the people and events of her childhood in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s debut story collection Nowadays and Lonelier offers searingly intimate portraits of characters who exist in the tension between holding on and letting go–of people, places, and personal histories. The narrator of the opening story, “The Dance of the Cygnets,” actually […]
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A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Nov 26, 2021
Casey Plett is the author of the novel Little Fish, and the short story collection, A Safe Girl to Love. Her second collection of short fiction, A Dream of a Woman, is a powerful blend of stories and perspectives. Plett’s voice is strong and fully realized in this collection. The language is tight and matter-of-fact, […]
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