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★ Handwriting

By Michael Ondaatje

You are 20, a male tree-planter working the cleaving mountains west of Spatsizi in northern B.C. Mid-summer blackflies. You ache for the brown and blonding women on the crew: the ankle bracelets below calf muscles, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Marrying the Sea

By Janice Kulyk Keefer

In this impressive collection of new poems, Janice Kulyk Keefer explores the fragility and power of human relationships. Her intelligence is evident in finely crafted lyrics that celebrate a daughter’s deep affection for her parents; ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Caesarea

By Tony Burgess

In Tony Burgess’s Caesarea, the final book in his Bewdley trilogy and the name of a fictional small Ontario town, strange things are happening. Caesarea’s figurehead mayor has recently been replaced by a dwarf doppelganger. ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hostels Canada

By Paul Karr

I bought a travel guide once. It ruined me for others. Despite Venice, Italy, its focus of fascination, the book’s toothless narrative and irksome use of the pronoun we – “as we near the gondola docks…we ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference