Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »
October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
Laura Clarke’s witty romp, Decline of the Animal Kingdom, helped her win the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (when the selections were called Mule Variations). In her debut collection, she ruminates on ... Read More »
October 15, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
In the opening paragraph of A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729), from which Don Coles has drawn the title of his new poetry collection, William Law writes that “Devotion signifies a ... Read More »
June 25, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
Eleven-year-old Ruthie Blackburn is at the heart of Méira Cook’s third novel. Cook grew up in Johannesburg and now lives in Winnipeg; like her previous novel, The House on Sugarbush Road (which won the 2013 ... Read More »
June 23, 2015 | Filed under: Featured Book Review, Poetry
Marilyn Dumont, celebrated Métis poet and author of A Really Good Brown Girl, which won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, returns to her roots with The Pemmican Eaters. Though other books have been written ... Read More »
April 14, 2015 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Poetry
Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world,” writes author and critic Paul Goodman. Elise Partridge’s third and final book of poetry (the poet died of cancer in January) is ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
It seems absurd that Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent is Liz Howard’s full-length debut. There is a gravity, a certainty to the way Howard inhabits these words and phrases, that lends her writing a ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
In her third poetry collection, Ottawa’s Pearl Pirie unleashes her deep curiosity about language. Writing on the BookThug blog, Pirie claims, “I like when the words in words are not the root word but are ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
Zachariah Wells’s Sum opens with an epigraph from Fernando Pessoa that declares, “In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people, thinking and feeling differently.” At a glance, the formal eclecticism ... Read More »
April 6, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry
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