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Ordinary Strangers by Bill Stenson
‘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. Sage and Della Howard are a couple on their way to Fernie, BC. After a brief stop in Hope where...
The Old Songs By Madeline Coopsammy
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. Tessa is an avid reader who dreams of...
Biblioasis’s 2019 “A Ghost Story for Christmas” Collection
Biblioasis, along with famous Canadian cartoonist Seth, have once again released three Victorian ghost stories just in time for the holiday season, and they’re fantastic. Harkening back to the tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas, these stocking...
What Fox Knew by Mary Barnes
Reading Mary Barnes’ poetry collection, What Fox Knew, is a fascinating journey. It is epic in scope, delightfully composed, and rich in detail. Set in the Southern Georgian Bay area, the characters and their chronicles reveal a deep past of First Nations peoples...
Most of what follows is true : places imagined and real by Michael Crummey
Most of what follows is true reads as the beginning of a blueprint for writing about real places, historical figures and facts, in both fiction and nonfiction. While Michael Crummey gave this lecture in an academic context, during the Kreisel Lecture Series...
Photon Touch: poems by Michelle Elrick
Michelle Elrick’s Photon Touch: poems is excitingly innovative and utterly impossible to categorize. It includes visual poetry. It is experimental and lyrical. It is an artfully designed object of book art, a chapbook, and a digital synth/pop/prog album with spoken...