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Reader’s Digest A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants

By Christopher Bricknell, Trevor Cole, Judith D. Zuk, eds.

At 1,092 pages and about 4 kilograms, the A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants is an ambitious volume that’s packed with essential ABCs for North American gardeners – and all sorts of extras not available in ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Hand to Hand

By Nadine McInnis

Nadine McInnis’s poetic project is to break through “the shell / that separates us” and reveal the interpenetration of ordinary human lives. This is a vernacular poetry that searches for the links that bind us ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Blue Marrow

By Louise Bernice Halfe

In her second collection of poetry, Saskatchewan’s Louise Bernice Halfe continues an exploration of many of the concerns she addressed in her previous book, Bear Bones & Feathers (1994). Blue Marrow is both a celebration ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

That Night We Were Ravenous

By John Steffler

John Steffler was born in Toronto, but his poetic voice ranges far afield in this new collection, his fourth, and first in a decade. From Newfoundland (where he now lives) to southern Ontario and Greece, ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Parish of the Psychic Moon

By Don Domanski

It seems to be the general consensus that Don Domanski is a different kind of poet compared with other Canadian poets. To my mind his greatest affinity can be found with the British poet Peter ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

White Stone

By Stephanie Bolster

It’s not unusual for a writer – or indeed a reader – to be obsessed with the life of Alice in Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass, of course). My first thought when ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Pontypool Changes Everything

By Tony Burgess

Les Reardon spent 25 years of his life as a garbage man; then he had a psychotic breakdown, went back to school and became a drama teacher in Pontypool. Unfortunately, the nightmarish images that caused ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Magic Time

By W.P. Kinsella

Magic Time is a novel that W.P. Kinsella at first abandoned, and then issued in its several parts as short stories, and has now reintegrated into a story of baseball, love, and strange dealings, featuring ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss

Darkness Then a Blown Kiss is Golda Fried’s first collection of stories: emphatically alternative and experimental in nature, the book stands as a series of notes from the outpost.Fried, whose work has been published in ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The King of Siam

By Murray Logan

Each of the 13 stories in Murray Logan’s debut collection is a treat, but none embodies so compactly his themes as the first, “Everett and Evalyne.” The tale, which unwraps the birthday present that the ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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