Merging the heart and mind
Susan McCaslin’s new collection of poems Heart Work (Ekstasis $24.95) continues her decades-long focus on contemplative poetry and social justice…. FULL STORY
Author Archive
Living with autism
by Terrance James April was Autism Month. I have a grandchild on the autism spectrum and was keen to read… FULL STORY
Ode to loving
In her second collection of poems, blue gait (Mother Tongue $19.95) due out in October, shauna paull sings the praises… FULL STORY
Big Oil vs. democracy
U of Vic professor, William K. Carroll is the editor of Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy… FULL STORY
Armenian longing
A descendent of Armenian genocide survivors, SFU professor Celeste Nazeli Snowber explores the relationship between longing, belonging and identity in… FULL STORY
Residential school misery
The newly-wed couple were hired to work at the Alert Bay Student Residence in 1970. Within days of starting their… FULL STORY
James Heneghan 1930 – 2021
Born in Liverpool on October 7, 1930, James Heneghan came to Vancouver in 1957 where he eventually began writing fiction… FULL STORY
Poetry at 90
“My early poems, written in my late twenties and thirties,” says Naomi Beth Wakan in Wind on the Heath (Shanti… FULL STORY
Witty advice from the dead
Former reporter, Tamara Vukusic of Kamloops has written obittersweet: Life Lessons from Obituaries (Mosaic Press $24.95), a collection of essays… FULL STORY
Guilt & innocence
At the start of WW2, a young German Canadian girl, Eva, living in the Okanagan, gets a new friend when… FULL STORY
One life, 110 pages
Matsuki Masutani of Denman Island covers a lot of ground in I will be more myself in the next world… FULL STORY
Strange new world
Barbara Black’s genre-bending debut short story collection Music from a Strange Planet (Caitlin $22.95) deals with identity and emotional attachment,… FULL STORY
Rural nursing 1960s-style
In 1962, newly minted public health nurse Marion McKinnon was just 22 years old when she arrived in Williams Lake…. FULL STORY
Elvis is in the trailer park
Leslie Gentile of Brentwood Bay has published her debut kidlit novel Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer (Cormorant $13.95)… FULL STORY
Christmas wins the Sheri-D Wilson
Vancouver poet Jillian Christmas has won the 2021 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award, which honours an established Canadian poet with… FULL STORY
From Goldberger to Gold
David Goldberger always knew he had a story to tell and remember; he just never found a voice for it…. FULL STORY
B.C.’s most successful outlaw
Train robber Bill Miner & labour leader Ginger Goodwin became folk heroes after they evaded the law but they were… FULL STORY
Dear Ivan
For an inveterate traveler and performer like Ivan Coyote, the Covid-19 pandemic initially proved to be confining. The non-binary writer… FULL STORY
Sanford Blade up for two awards
Susan Sanford Blades of Victoria has won the ReLit Award for Fiction for her novel, Fake It So Real (Nightwood… FULL STORY
Mystery in the keynote of Beethoven
Novelist Melanie Jackson has written over 15 mysteries for young people, often using a theme like the five she titled… FULL STORY
