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Harm’s Way

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Dove Legend

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Inside Out

By Evelyn Lau

Vancouver writer Evelyn Lau has never been reticent when it comes to self-revelation. Inside Out, her second volume of memoirs (the first, the best-selling Runaway, was published when Lau was just 18) continues to document ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography