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Some Girls Do

By Teresa McWhirter

Using a Vancouver Island city as a backdrop (likely Victoria but it’s never confirmed), Some Girls Do delves into the chaotic lives of more than a dozen characters in their mid-twenties to early thirties – ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Icarus

By Louise Young

There is a telling scene in Louise Young’s debut novel Icarus where a somewhat pragmatic character remarks of recent mystical events that “This is beyond the beyond.” Indeed, the novel, which tends to defy categorization ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pavilion

By Stephanie Bolster

Poetry collections that include long lists of books that “shaped the development” of the work often suffer from one of two problems: either the poems are so bloated with information that they plod along like ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Killing Things

By John Degen

John Degen’s 2000 poetry debut, The Animal Life of Budapest, was a slim, strong evocation of a very particular city and its discontents. Killing Things pursues his fascination with place, stopping in London, New York, ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry