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★ Water Memory

By Roo Borson

Water Memory, Roo Borson’s brilliant, moody, ninth collection of poetry, offers the reader a very broad tonal variety, from the playful, often joyous poems of “Cloud Music” (the book’s first section) to the desolate, grief-stricken ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

What Passes for Love

By Stan Rogal

Stan Rogal’s voice in his new story collection, What Passes for Love, is immediately familiar and appealing. His dense sketches (no paragraph breaks, little punctuation) are interior monologues that draw us quickly into his narrators’ ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Muck

By N.J. Dodic

N.J. Dodic, in his second novel, Muck, adds an intriguing wrinkle to the convention of basing a novel around the interplay between a main text and its “editor’s” footnotes, which occurs most famously in Pale ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flying to Yellow

By Linda Holeman

Yellow is, as Alexander Theroux has written, a colour “with a thousand meanings.” Connoting both glory and disturbing estrangement, it contains, Theroux contends, an opposing duality.This duality is central to Flying to Yellow, a debut ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Self: A Novel

By Yann Martel

Yann Martel is probably best known for “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios,” which first appeared in the Malahat Review in 1990 and subsequently in the third Journey Prize Anthology and after that as the ... Read More »

March 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels