The poems in Drift, Toronto arts journalist Kevin Connolly’s third collection, make huge imaginative leaps. Driven by surreal imagery and associative wordplay, they are slippery creatures, tough to pin down. At his best, as in ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
The thematic keystone to Souwesto Home, the latest collection of poetry from Ontario writer James Reaney, comes late in the volume, in the closing lines of “Ice Cream,” a poem that begins with “the local ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry
We have hardly set foot upon the deck of Nothing for Granted, University of Toronto philosophy professor Mark Kingwell’s disappointing and haphazard collection of columns from the National Post, when the author himself rings the ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
Rita Moir’s memoir The Windshift Line has a prologue in which the five-year-old Rita is helping her father in his workshop, where he is making arrows. She is entranced: “I get to stand watching my ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
It has become axiomatic that nobody has “time” anymore: time for family, time to finish a day’s work, time for introspection. And despite the ubiquity of computers and related technologies, such as email, voicemail, and ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
While Canadians have decidedly divided views on the benefits of organized labour, there’s no doubt that the paucity of books on the movement’s struggles makes it easy to forget that paid maternity leave and work-free ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
While Canadians have decidedly divided views on the benefits of organized labour, there’s no doubt that the paucity of books on the movement’s struggles makes it easy to forget that paid maternity leave and work-free ... Read More »
May 17, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Much is made of the special and enduring friendship between the Dutch and Canadians that began with the triumphant arrival of liberation forces in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in May 1945. The arrival of Canadian soldiers ... Read More »
May 16, 2005 | Filed under: History
The newest additions to NorthWord Press’s Our Wild World series – now topping 30 titles, ranging from alligators to wolves – focus on three well-known birds of prey. For this group of titles, Calgary author ... Read More »
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