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Building Canada

By Bonnie Shemie

Building Canada is a fascinating introduction to architecture and the forces that influence it. Similar in concept to The Visual Dictionary of Buildings (Eyewitness series), Building Canada is shorter and simpler. It’s also unique because ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

★ Everything on a Waffle

By Polly Horvath

Splice the literary DNA of Pippi Longstocking with Anne Shirley and you pretty much have Primrose Squarp, the 11-year-old narrator of Polly Horvath’s new novel, Everything on a Waffle. And what a vibrant, funny, frank, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Authors

Harm’s Way

By Maureen Hynes

The title poem of Maureen Hynes’s second collection depicts the book as a sort of travel narrative for Amazons: “Some of us wear a piece of the road as an amulet/over our breastbones.” The book’s ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Dove Legend

By Richard Outram

Beginning Dove Legend, the newest collection by award-winning Toronto poet Richard Outram, is a little like entering a foreign language. Outram’s conventional poetic forms and strict rhymes, combined with his use of archaic language, will ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry