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Isobel & Emile

By Alan Reed

Meet Isobel and Emile. She’s a dark-haired, small-town jeune fille. He’s  the “strange boy from the city” who has temporarily set up shop in the tiny room above the local grocery store to concentrate on ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ghost Brush

By Katherine Govier

A Katherine Govier book is as much history lesson as literary entertainment. In this, her ninth novel, Govier chronicles the life of a groundbreaking female artist in 19th-century Japan. Set against the backdrop of the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Memory’s Daughter

By Alice Major

Memory’s Daughter is former Edmonton poet laureate Alice Major’s eighth collection and the follow-up to her Pat Lowther Award–winning Office Tower Tales. The book’s 85 poems cover ground that will be familiar to Major’s readers: ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

The Philosophy of As If

By Fraser Sutherland

Taking its name from Philosophie des Als Ob, which Hans Vaihinger published in 1911, Fraser Sutherland’s latest poetry collection draws on the German philosopher’s notion of the unknowable nature of reality and the theory that ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Bloom

By Michael Lista

There aren’t many Canadian books of poetry that are anticipated with quite so much excitement as Michael Lista’s debut, which has been the talk of the town for some time. But the book outpaces the ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry