#136 It takes one to tanka
The Way of Tanka by Naomi Beth Wakan Brunswick, Maine: Shanti Arts Publishing, 2017. $20.00 / 978-1-941830-60-4 Reviewed by Phyllis… FULL STORY
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Rolf Knight is Woodcock winner
B.C.’s foremost historian of the working class, Rolf Knight, will finally get the recognition he deserves when he receives the… FULL STORY
Wade’s wide, wide, wild world
The public is now invited to hear him at the Vancouver Public Library’s main branch at 7 p.m. on June… FULL STORY
#135 The W̱SÁNEĆ revisited
The W̱SÁNEĆ and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935by Diamond Jenness. Edited and with… FULL STORY
Ormsby #128 Fred Herzog’s genius
Curator Bill Jeffries responds to a major, new book on the postwar imagery of Herzog’s Vancouver street photography over sixty… FULL STORY
#134 Resuscitation of James Legge
REVIEW: James Legge and the Chinese Classics A Brilliant Scot in the Turmoil of Colonial Hong Kong by Marilyn Laura… FULL STORY
#133 Black Dog desperation
REVIEW: Deadpoint By Nikki Tate Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 2017. $9.95 / 9781459813526 Reviewed by Carol Anne Shaw *… FULL STORY
Talking the walk
Between 1986 and 2011, the aptly named Derek Walker Youngs devoted much of his life to peace, leading to his… FULL STORY
#132 The demise of Vancouver
REVIEW: 2050: A Post-Apocalyptic Murder Mystery by Michael Kluckner Vancouver: Midtown Press, 2016. $19.95 / 978-1-988242-18-7 Reviewed by Mark James… FULL STORY
Top of province garners top prize
This year’s $2,500 BC Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for historical writing has been awarded to Anthony Kenyon (shown) for his comprehensive,… FULL STORY
From Barbados to B.C.
In her first published collection of poetry, Thin Air of the Knowable (Brick $20), Wendy Donawa writes of the physical… FULL STORY
Indiana Jane and the Electric Samurai
Kristi Charish adds a third title to her “Owl” fantasy series, about the ongoing adventures of a girl who is… FULL STORY
Grantsmanship
Once upon a time there were practical skills such as how to change a carburator or pluck a chicken. We… FULL STORY
Ormsby #131 Expo 67 and its offspring
The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country recounts the myriad ways we marked the hundredth birthday of… FULL STORY
#131 Minds lost, country found, in ’67
REVIEW: The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country: The Centennial of 1967 by Tom Hawthorn Madeira Park:… FULL STORY
Sesquicentennially yours
Douglas Gibson was dubbed “a publishing icon” by the Globe and Mail when he retired in 2007. “No one has… FULL STORY
Ormsby #130 Making Room
“Vancouver feminism liberated us from more than lipstick and foundation garments,” says reviewer Phyllis Reeve, responding to a new, retrospective… FULL STORY
#130 The making of Making Room
REVIEW: Making Room; Forty Years of Room Magazine by Meghan Bell and the Growing Room Collective (editors) Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin… FULL STORY
Second coming of Maps and Dreams
Borrowing the title from Hugh Brody’s 1981 anthropological study of the Dane-zaa–not appropriating it–Maps and Dreams is an exhibit at… FULL STORY
Ormsby #129 Hornby steel haven
But Jeffrey Rubinoff’s Sculpture Park on Hornby Island has nothing to do with NASA and more to do with Charles… FULL STORY
