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Language Matters: Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets

By Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas; eds.

It is hardly surprising that poets should be articulate and thoughtful in conversation about their practice. Their daily working lives constellate around language: listening to it, looking for it, recording it before whatever the Muse ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Wood

By Jennica Harper

One of the most difficult relationships to describe is the connection between an audience (whether they be readers, listeners, or viewers) and fictional characters. It’s one thing when a deeply obsessed brony announces he believes ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Great Expectations: The Lost Toronto Blue Jays Season

By Shi Davidi and John Lott

Great Expectations is a first pass at the history of the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays, written by two of the team’s best beat reporters, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi and the National Post’s John Lott. Positioned as ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fists upon a Star: A Memoir of Love, Theatre and Escape from McCarthyism

By Florence Bean James with Jean Freeman

Taken from Stephen Vincent Benét’s epic Civil War poem John Brown’s Body, the title Fists upon a Star refers to the tenacity and forbearance of indefatigable theatre producers Florence Bean James and husband Burton James. ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan

By Balwant Bhaneja

What makes us decide to stay in one place or leave our homes forever? That is the question that underpins Balwant Bhaneja’s memoir. A retired Canadian diplomat raised in India, Bhaneja decides to search for ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hostile Seas: A Mission in Pirate Waters

By JL Savidge

In 2008, JL Savidge was a 33-year-old intelligence officer aboard the HMCS Ville de Québec, patrolling the Mediterranean on a NATO counter-terrorism mission. However, a call from Ottawa drastically changed the Ville de Québec’s mission, ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Orr: My Story

By Bobby Orr

A hockey prodigy at the age of 12 and a legend by the time he made his professional debut with the Boston Bruins at 18, Bobby Orr enjoyed the kind of early celebrity that can ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Local Customs

By Audrey Thomas

Four productive decades and 17 books of fiction have secured Audrey Thomas a place in our canon, duly confirmed in 2003 by a George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2008 by her investiture into ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

By Mark Abley

In 2010, the top prize for Ottawa-area poets was changed from the Lampman-Scott Award back to its original name, the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. (The award had joined with the Duncan Campbell Scott Foundation ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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