Sandy Shreve’s “Found Poems”
The poems are a tribute to her father and working life at sea eighty years ago. by Beverly Cramp Sandy… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Cariboo thriller a musical ride
Steven Hunter will launch his second book of fiction, Strings (Riverside Press 2015), this Fall at Williams Lake Fourth Avenue Arts and… FULL STORY
Mars Hotel offers jazz and dance
Proof that fiction can be successfully melded with other disciplines to create new art forms, is The Mars Hotel performance… FULL STORY
Re-discovering Vancouver artists
Author Peter Busby launches his book The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd (Mother Tongue $35.95), another in The Unheralded… FULL STORY
Christopher (Kip) Plant (1950-2015)
When Judith Plant published her first book, Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism with New Society Publishers in Philadelphia,… FULL STORY
Money is our underlying great divide
Now Talonbooks has published the Vancouver-made play, reviewed here by Paul Durras. Like so many friends, James and Marcus are… FULL STORY
Crisp corpse for Jinnah
Donald J. Hauka’s Pizza 911 (Dundurn $11.99), the third in Hauka’s Mister Jinnah mystery series, takes politically incorrect newspaper reporter… FULL STORY
In short, Lear long
King Lear By William Shakespeare Bard on the Beach June 25 – September 20 Co-productions look good on paper. They… FULL STORY
Caitlin Press founder looks back
The first office of Carolyn Zonailo’s Caitlin Press was at 2515 Burrard, in the Alm Building, named after the man… FULL STORY
Ryga Awards proliferate
In honour of her brother George Ryga, Anne Chudyk, along with her husband Ted Chudyk, have established two annual $1,000… FULL STORY
Queen of the Godforsaken
A writer of novels and picture books, and a blogger, Mix Hart wrote her first young adult novel Queen of… FULL STORY
Elizabeth Ross’s Kingdom comes
Born and raised in Victoria, Elizabeth Ross completed a BA with majors in English and creative writing at Vancouver Island… FULL STORY
Revisiting Johnsons Landing tragedy
July 12 marks the third anniversary of the landslides in tiny Johnsons Landing, B.C. that killed four people and resulted… FULL STORY
How a budding archivist got her Bazzy
Here are Jean Barman’s remarks at UBC Library on June 9 as she received the third Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize. Thank… FULL STORY
The ecstasy and the agony
Three months after asking her lover to leave, Tzoutzi Matzourani is tormented by his absence. Craziness took hold of them… FULL STORY
Tick talk
For decades, cowboys known as ‘tick riders’ have patrolled the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent cattle carrying ‘fever ticks’ from entering…. FULL STORY
Canada “dastardly” at G8 Summit
But Boyd also claims Canada has devolved from being a world leader to having second-rate standards in Cleaner, Greener, Healthier:… FULL STORY
United States saved from further infamy
A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth… FULL STORY
Call me Ishbel
These days, if you go to 1060 Cameron Street in Kelowna, you’ll find the high-end Guisachan House Restaurant, easily one… FULL STORY
At the root of things
A vegan for ten years, Carla Kelly has followed Vegan Al Fresco: Happy & Healthy Recipes for Picnics, Barbecues &… FULL STORY
