Novelist and poet Helen Humphreys’ fourth collection of poetry is an eloquently written, passionate book about language, desire, love, and indecision.In “For Jackie, Who Will Never Read This,” Humphreys details the importance of speech outside ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
What’s poetry good for? Neither preferred nor common, it has no abbreviation on the NASDAQ exchange. But Patrick Friesen’s Carrying the Shadow shows how poetry still holds an uncontested patent in speaking of death. It’s ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Everybody knows the futility of trying to look up a “dirty” word in the dictionary. Even a quite ordinary word such as cunnilingus is not listed in every dictionary – a quick browse through my ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
Chinese diaspora? Yes, indeed there is one, and it has ramifications for many countries, including Canada. With an introduction by Gary Hamilton, who teaches sociology at the University of Washington, this collection of nine academic ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Ray Lewis has quite a story to tell. The great-grandson of escaped slaves, Lewis was born in Hamilton in 1910. He went on to win a bronze track-and-field medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
While fans of Eric Wright’s murder mysteries will welcome this partial autobiography by the creator of Inspector Charlie Salter, others will appreciate it as an immigrant’s story, full of poignancy and humour. Wright was born ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Reading We Could Stay Here All Night, a collection of 12 linked stories by Montreal writer Debbie Howlett, is like consuming a designer martini – it’s small and flows like silk, but packs a punch.The ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Little Cypress, the small prairie town where Catherine Simmons Niven sets her debut novel, is the sort of place where first impressions determine one’s role in the community. The time is the 1950s, and Fran, ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
When my father retired, my mother used to quote the wife of baseball great Casey Stengel: “I married him for better or for worse, but not for lunch.” Barbara, the heroine of Cynthia Holz’s new ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
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