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Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar by Roo Borson
Ever since I read her poem, “Rubber Boots” (1989), which I found in an anthology that would let me teach classic Canadian poetry to first-year university students, I have been enchanted with Roo Borson’s work. The chance to review her latest collection, in which...
The Burgess Shale: The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s by Margaret Atwood
The Burgess Shale is not a typical scholarly work, but instead a transcription of Margaret Atwood’s lecture to the University of Alberta as part of the CLC Kreisel Lecture Series in 2016. In her lecture, Atwood provided insight into the influences and impacts of the...
#IndianLovePoems by Tenille K. Campbell
#IndianLovePoems, a poetry collection by Tenille K. Campbell, provides evocative, truthful words about love without silencing her Indigenous perspective. The honesty throughout #IndianLovePoems is fresh and without hesitation. Her words flow like spoken word poetry,...
Dead White Men by Shane Rhodes
Canada is so haunted by the spectres of dead white men that they almost seem inescapable, a presence so persistent as to be definitive.This is, of course, the point. The fact that there seem to be innumerable buildings bearing the names of Sir John A. MacDonald...
Bibioasis’s 2017 “A Ghost Story for Christmas” Collection
As Andy Williams once sang in his holiday standard, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: There’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. So what ever happened to the ghost stories? When did the telling of spine-tingling...
Common Place by Sarah Pinder
Common Place, Sarah Pinder’s second book of poetry, is a challenging read. This is partially due to the subject matter at hand—Common Place is concerned with structures and discourses of power at a human level, and necessarily presents the violence inherent in these...