The Ends of the Earth

Some of the best poetry I’ve ever encountered was not on the page, but heard at a spoken-word night at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café. I was making a teenage pilgrimage in the sloshed ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry

By Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron, eds.

A single-thread narrative of the African-Canadian experience has long been sewn into the margins of Canadian history, resulting in a legacy of misappropriated cultures and residual resentments that has left generations of black Canadians voiceless. ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Supplying Salt and Light

By Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison’s ninth book of poetry stands as a powerful testament to her reputation as one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated poets. Supplying Salt and Light reconstructs the Caribbean colonial quest undertaken by 16th-century Spanish ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Under the Keel

By Michael Crummey

The term “page turner” is more likely to be associated with mass-market thrillers than books of poetry. But in the case of Under the Keel, Michael Crummey’s first collection in a decade, the phrase suits ... Read More »

April 3, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory

By George Szanto

Since retiring from McGill University, novelist and essayist George Szanto has spent many hours looking out from his writing studio upon the “length and breadth of the bog” that bisects his property on B.C.’s Gabriola ... Read More »

April 1, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Skim

By Mariko Tamaki; Jillian Tamaki (illus.)

This graphic novel is a winner. Skim is a unique creation by Mariko Tamaki, a Toronto-based writer and playwright, and her cousin, illustrator Jillian Tamaki, formerly of Edmonton and now living in New York, whose ... Read More »

March 28, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Best Place on Earth

By Ayelet Tsabari

Ayelet Tsabari’s penetrating debut short-story collection begins with “Tikkun,” about a chance reunion in a Jerusalem café between two former lovers whose lives have followed divergent paths in the seven years since splitting up. Lior, ... Read More »

March 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sister Mine

By Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson’s fifth novel for adults delves into the areas of speculative fiction and the Caribbean oral tradition her writing is best known for. The story opens in Toronto, a setting that at first glance ... Read More »

March 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Blackwell Pages: Loki’s Wolves

By K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr

The most frightening aspect of apocalyptic stories is not the means by which the world will end, but the fact of the end itself. Continent-crushing tsunamis, giant meteors, and zombies are all very scary, but ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Lake and the Library

By S.M. Beiko

In S.M. Beiko’s florid debut, 16-year-old Ashleigh’s fantasy to escape her “bitter, broken” small town is finally about to come true: her chain-smoking nurse mother has announced they’ll leave at summer’s end. An incurable romantic, ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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The Ends of the Earth

★ The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry

★ Supplying Salt and Light

★ Under the Keel

Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory

★ Skim

The Best Place on Earth

Sister Mine

The Blackwell Pages: Loki’s Wolves

The Lake and the Library

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