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Ladykiller

By Charlotte Gill

Elmore Leonard’s prime rule for writing reads as follows: “If it sounds like writing, I re-write it.” It is the type of pithy pronouncement that rings with hard-boiled wisdom, but Leonard’s dictum excludes the possibility ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Treble

By Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau’s latest poetry collection contains her signature bleak insights into relationships with an added twist: the poems are written in the second-person voice. The poems in Treble address a variety of subjects, mainly relationships ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Drift

By Kevin Connolly

The poems in Drift, Toronto arts journalist Kevin Connolly’s third collection, make huge imaginative leaps. Driven by surreal imagery and associative wordplay, they are slippery creatures, tough to pin down. At his best, as in ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Souwesto Home

By James Reaney

The thematic keystone to Souwesto Home, the latest collection of poetry from Ontario writer James Reaney, comes late in the volume, in the closing lines of “Ice Cream,” a poem that begins with “the local ... Read More »

May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry