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Summat Else

By Royston Tester

Over the 13 linked stories comprising this debut collection from Birmingham, England-born, Toronto resident Royston Tester, our protagonist, Enoch, is clubbed with one revelation after another: his father’s illiteracy, his own nascent and tumultuous sexuality, ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Naked Island

By Bryna Wasserman

This debut novel from Toronto’s Bryna Wasserman is a strange and beguiling tale that showcases considerable ambition and emerging talent. The Naked Island follows Rachel Gold, a young Jewish woman, on a trip around the ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What Casanova Told Me

By Susan Swan

British writer George MacDonald Fraser is famous for his antihero Flashman, a womanizing, cowardly cad who stumbles through some of the most important historical events of the 18th and 19th centuries, concerned only with saving ... Read More »

September 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Snowbird Poems

By Robert Kroetsch

Robert Kroetsch has deservedly earned a reputation as one of the leading writers of what, for lack of a better term, has been called Canadian postmodernism. Kroetsch’s self-reflexive narration is well in evidence in his ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Night Street Repairs

By A.F. Moritz

In his 16th poetry collection, A.F. Moritz shows how master wordsmiths ply their trade. The poems in Night Street Repairs stand firm as pillars of accessible poetry rooted in the qualified skill of a veteran ... Read More »

September 14, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry