Hard Boiled Love: An Anthology of Noir Love

By Kerry Schooley and Peter Sellers, eds.

Hard Boiled Love, the follow-up to last year’s Iced anthology of noir fiction, gets off to a shaky start, but ends up succeeding on the strength of four or five solid tales and one unexpected ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Beyond This Dark House

By Guy Gavriel Kay

Canny readers can be forgiven for being suspicious of a slim collection of poetry from a successful mainstream novelist in mid-career. Such books are usually either vanity projects, efforts of a publisher to please (and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing

By Ray Robertson

Ray Robertson is a novelist (best known for his long goodbye to the 1960s, Moody Food), teacher at the University of Toronto, book reviewer, TV pundit, and, most importantly, a perceptive, light-on-his-feet heavyweight critic and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Significant Things

By Helen McLean

Edward Cooper begins life in near-Dickensian circumstances, in a single room on Brunswick Avenue in Depression-era Toronto. Though he and his pretty, unmarried English mother have only each other and a meagre allowance from her ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crowd of Sounds

By Adam Sol

The first poem in Crowd of Sounds, Adam Sol’s second poetry collection, presents in miniature the book’s thematic concerns. Entitled “The Calculus of a Man Striking Water in Relation to a Boat Striking Wood, and ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Wild Cat

By Jacques Poulin, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Jacques Poulin is one of Quebec’s best and most-loved writers, winner of the Governer General’s Award for Les Grandes marées (Spring Tides) and the Prix France-Amerique for Le Vieux chagrin (Mr. Blue). Thoughtful and wryly ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580

By Samuel Bawlf

Did Sir Francis Drake visit Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlottes, and the coast of Alaska 200 years before any other European? Geographer, ex-B.C. politician, and sailor Samuel Bawlf sure makes a strong case for such ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Reservoir of Ancestors

By Keith Garebian

On the night I should have started reading Keith Garebian’s first collection of poetry, Reservoir of Ancestors, I instead went to see Ararat, the film by Atom Egoyan about the Armenian genocide in Turkey (1915-1917). ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy

By Terry Copp

At the two Canadian military cemeteries in Normandy, where over 5,000 Canadian citizen-soldiers are buried, modern cynicism shatters in the face of profligate sacrifice. That the sacrifice was not in vain is without doubt. But ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: History

The Stars as Seen from This Particular Angle of Night

By Sandra Kasturi, ed.

Any organizing principle so loosely defined as to comfortably include Milton’s Paradise Lost and a poem about robots clearly derivative of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man is likely of little to no use for a ... Read More »

November 25, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

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Hard Boiled Love: An Anthology of Noir Love

Beyond This Dark House

★ Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing

Significant Things

Crowd of Sounds

Wild Cat

★ The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580

Reservoir of Ancestors

Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy

The Stars as Seen from This Particular Angle of Night

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