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The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama
In his introduction to The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, editor Daniel David Moses expresses the hope that the work of First Nations writers in Canada today has reached the point where it can be read on its own terms simply as literature, without...
Natural Capital
Jason Heroux’s Memoirs of an Alias surprised me with its brilliance. His ability to create images seemed bold, rewarding and quite new. His Mansfield Press follow-up, Emergency Hallelujah, continued in the same direction: image vector attached to image vector like the...
ivH: An Alphamath Serial
Victor Coleman has been writing for a lifetime, working at the edges of poetry - never afraid to challenge any reader gutsy enough to pick up one of his books. This one comes with the head-scratching title ivH: An Alphamath Serial displayed in a pitch-black font over...
Interview with Katherena Vermette
Katherena Vermette, a Métis/Mennonite poet, won the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language Poetry for North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Co.). Shayla Elizabeth is a Cree/Iniwé writer/storyteller based in Winnipeg. Shayla Elizabeth: When did you know...
Metastasis and Other Plays
Metastasis and Other Plays by Alberta playwright Gordon Pengilly is a collection of three plays drawn from a sizable body of work dating back to 1975 that Pengilly has written for stage and radio. It’s clear that a publication of his work has been long overdue, and...
Boy
In Victor Enns’s Boy, family and locale figure prominently, as well they might when the topic is adolescence. Enns feels dearly about his sister, not as strongly about his brother, he desperately needs his mother, and Dad keeps a leather belt in his roll-top desk. We...