Poetic Voices of the Maritimes: A Selection of Contemporary Poetry

By Allison Mitcham,Theresia Quigley, eds.

With the Canadian penchant for regionalism, organizing the national literature in terms of geography is a natural impulse. The sense of place is such an important aspect of this country’s writing that location often provides ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum

By Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh

Decorum is something you don’t hear much about anymore – it’s the kind of word that’s associated with white gloves and stodgy rules of etiquette. However, as Ceri Marsh and Kim Izzo reveal, modern decorum ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ Becky Chan

By Jared Mitchell

In its own mindful, dignified manner, Becky Chan goes all the way. Jared Mitchell’s fictional account of Hong Kong in the 1960s – a desperate few acres, gnawed at like a colonial bone – is ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Made of Clay: Ceramics of British Columbia

By Carol E. Mayer

Historically, the First Nations in British Columbia didn’t explore clay as a material (aside from using baked clay to remove grease from wool during the weaving process). As such, pottery in B.C. belongs largely to ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Breakfast with the Devil

By L. Wayne Carlson

Breakfast with the Devil is a ballad of conundrums. On one level it’s an unsentimental account of the career of the most-escaped prisoner in modern North American history, the story of a hardscrabble Canadian farm ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Quicksilver

By Nadine McInnis

The 14 stories in Nadine McInnis’s Quicksilver are linked by a spectrum of characters somehow experiencing revelations in the midst of suspended lives. Mercury, the rare metal also known as “quicksilver,” is a recurrent image, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Small Business Online: A Strategic Guide for Canadian Entrepreneurs

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

In strictly commercial terms, the Internet has been a boon for some and a bust for many, many more. For every Yahoo! there are probably scores of outdated, unvisited, and expensive corporate web sites occupying ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Canadian Writer’s Market: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers (14th Edition)

By Sandra B. Tooze

It has been said that to be a freelance writer in Canada is a good way to starve to death slowly. The Canadian Writer’s Market has long been an effective tool to help freelancers fend ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

★ All Heart: My Story

By Michael Clemons

There’s nothing like a good sports biography to get a fan’s blood pumping. A well-written account of the sporting life can prompt fond reminiscences of one’s own athletic past, call up daydreams where you’re the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Days into Flatspin

By Ken Babstock

With his second collection of poetry, Days into Flatspin, Toronto poet Ken Babstock proves himself to be one of the “lords of the little gestures” that he cites in the book’s epigraph. His poems are ... Read More »