That Night We Were Ravenous

John Steffler was born in Toronto, but his poetic voice ranges far afield in this new collection, his fourth, and first in a decade. From Newfoundland (where he now lives) to southern Ontario and Greece, ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Parish of the Psychic Moon

By Don Domanski

It seems to be the general consensus that Don Domanski is a different kind of poet compared with other Canadian poets. To my mind his greatest affinity can be found with the British poet Peter ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

White Stone

By Stephanie Bolster

It’s not unusual for a writer – or indeed a reader – to be obsessed with the life of Alice in Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass, of course). My first thought when ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Pontypool Changes Everything

By Tony Burgess

Les Reardon spent 25 years of his life as a garbage man; then he had a psychotic breakdown, went back to school and became a drama teacher in Pontypool. Unfortunately, the nightmarish images that caused ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Magic Time

By W.P. Kinsella

Magic Time is a novel that W.P. Kinsella at first abandoned, and then issued in its several parts as short stories, and has now reintegrated into a story of baseball, love, and strange dealings, featuring ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss

By Golda Fried

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss is Golda Fried’s first collection of stories: emphatically alternative and experimental in nature, the book stands as a series of notes from the outpost.Fried, whose work has been published in ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The King of Siam

By Murray Logan

Each of the 13 stories in Murray Logan’s debut collection is a treat, but none embodies so compactly his themes as the first, “Everett and Evalyne.” The tale, which unwraps the birthday present that the ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Electrical Field

By Kerri Sakamoto

Asako Saito stands at her living-room window looking across a field of electrical towers and into the undraped front window of an opposing house. Upstairs, her invalid father moans and cries, but never moves. Her ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Hand Clapping

By Lise Leroux

Item: The Times of London, March 1998Reviewer Jane Shilling inspects two novels, Leaving Earth by the Toronto writer Helen Humphreys and One Hand Clapping by the Montreal-born Lise Leroux. They’re both first forays and they ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Muskoka II

By Judy Ross, with photos by John de Visser

Sometimes old adages are wrong and you can go back, and it isn’t so very different, and you are happy. Photographer John de Visser and writer Judy Ross published their successful Muskoka in 1989, capturing ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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