#536 A bird man named Adrian
The Birds of Vancouver Island’s West Coast by Adrian Dorst Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018 $39.95 / 9780774890106 Reviewed by Caroline… FULL STORY
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Leila Kulpas
In her memoir, Into the Eyes of Hungry: Growing up in the Wilds of Australia (Cadbach, 2019) Leila Kulpas recounts,… FULL STORY
#535 What a poet should know
Rain Shadow by Nicholas Bradley Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2018 $19.95 / 9781772123708 Reviewed by Christopher Levenson * What… FULL STORY
#534 Shale fellow, well met
Rocks, Ridges, and Rivers: Geological Wonders of Banff, Yoho, and Jasper National Parks. A Roadside Tour Guide by Dale Leckie… FULL STORY
Killed by a Taser at YVR
“The RCMP’s attempts to manage the public fallout at the expense of its members speaks to the brokenness of an… FULL STORY
#533 Downtown Eastside Scribes
From the Heart of it All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside by Heidi Greco (editor) Vancouver: Otter… FULL STORY
#532 The death of Robert Dziekanski
Blamed and Broken: The Mounties and the Death of Robert Dziekanski by Curt Petrovich Toronto: Dundurn, 2019 $20.99 / 9781459742932… FULL STORY
My Private Italy
Ware’s odyssey of cuisine Italiana is rooted in the east end of 1950-70s Vancouver with stories of restaurants, nightclubs, family,… FULL STORY
Friendship, seduction and murder
In Brenda Brooks’ first novel, Gotta Find Me An Angel (Raincoast $19.95), a 35-year-old film projectionist at a second-run cinema… FULL STORY
#531 J. Michael Yates (1938-2019)
Creator and manager of Sono Nis Press from 1966 to 1976, J. Michael Yates has died in Vancouver General Hospital… FULL STORY
The Martial Races
“After 100 years, it is time to tell the tale of the unsung heroes of the Punjab who stood as… FULL STORY
Fat Cats gets gold
George Mercer’s fourth novel, Fat Cats, has won a Gold Medal in the Best Regional Fiction (Canada West) category of… FULL STORY
#530 Grahame Ware’s Private Italy
MEMOIR: My Private Italy by Grahame Ware * We are delighted to present “My Private Italy,” the second instalment of… FULL STORY
Margaret Cadwaladr
With support from the Darts Hill Garden Conservancy Trust Society and the City of Surrey Cultural Grants Program, Margaret Cadwaladr… FULL STORY
Bringing back Chinatown Ghosts
“What a force of literature, creativity, and change Jim Wong-Chu helped to unlock,” says reviewer LiLynn Wan. Chinatown Ghosts: The… FULL STORY
#529 Poems and portraits of Chinatown
Chinatown Ghosts: The Poems and Photographs of Jim Wong-Chu by Jim Wong-Chu Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018 $19.95 / 9781551527482… FULL STORY
#528 Fleeting moments that matter
Quarrels by Eve Joseph Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2018 $18.00 / 9781772141191 Reviewed by Paul Falardeau * On April 9, 2019,… FULL STORY
An ekphrastic homage to Phyllis Webb
While blending politics and poetry, and meditations on mortality and silence, Collis evokes Webb’s importance and respects her resolute withdrawal…. FULL STORY
We saw the world from a great height
From vanishing wild cats, to poisoned oceans, to drowning valleys, the poems in The Schedule of Loss (Ekstasis $23.95) by… FULL STORY
Powter’s passages and climbs
Powter’s long climb to the top of Canadian mountaineering writing now has a representive collection of his journalism, from 1986… FULL STORY
