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The Miser of Middlegate
Carolyn Gray looks back some 350 years to the French playwright Molière and his play The Miser or L’Avare to find the subject for The Miser of Middlegate, the latest in her series of plays set in Winnipeg. Her version, like the original, places a rich miser at the...
Pluck
The first as well as the most lasting impression of Laisha Rosnau’s third book of poetry can best be summed up as “young-maternal.” Rosnau writes from an internal reckoning based in the centre of her body. Her pursuit of themes is uterine grounded. Not that most of...
Night-Eater
What an odd title for a book of poems. I conjure up a beast, or a fantastic creature like the shadow in Robert Munsch’s children’s story The Dark. The title poem concerns a woman with an eating disorder that has afflicted her throughout her life. Young focuses on our...
Her Voice, Her Century: Four Plays About Daring Women
Reading plays in book form is always a different process from seeing them on stage. They become literature and need to engage without the visual and oral elements of a stage production. The book form should work well for this collection, since much of the material...
Here’s all of Carly’s poem!
Our sincere apologies for inadvertently leaving off the latter part of Carly Dow’s poem in the spring issue.Here's the whole poem now: Flame Keepers by Carly Dow We are flame keepers. Flame throwers, although it was not a deliberate toss of the match. I held the...
North Main Gothic
Playwright Carolyn Gray’s North Main Gothic follows the story of Ian Trelkovsky, a Winnipeg bureaucrat and slum landlord, who takes a nightmarish journey into the underground life of his city. His journey begins one night with a car accident on Winnipeg’s Main Street...