Salt Spring Island’s silent poet
Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $24.95 / 9781772012071 Reviewed… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Consider the Indian Act
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by… FULL STORY
A ponderosa pine time capsule
From a seedling to its death in 2003’s Okanagan Park fire, the tree survives eras from the fur trade, gold… FULL STORY
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalists
Award winner Laisa Rosnau’s latest poetry collection Our Familiar Hunger (Nightwood Editions 2018) is a finalist for this year’s Dorothy… FULL STORY
What rhymes with alma mater?
The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC by Sheldon Goldfarb, with a preface by the Right Honourable… FULL STORY
From the lands of Xesdu’wäxw
Born in 1931 in the Kitlope, Cecil Paul, also known by his Xenaksiala name, Wa’xaid, is one of the last… FULL STORY
The lure of tragedy
In 2018, Edwin Wong (1974-) founded the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Playwright Competition with Langham Court Theatre to challenge conventional… FULL STORY
Hope in the forest
After Kerrry Gilbert won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer 2016/2017, her suite poems… FULL STORY
Throughout the 1860s, Frederick Whymper sketched his way From California to British Columbia, onto the Yukon, Alaska and Siberia. He… FULL STORY
Life in Boswell on a century-old farm
Luanne Armstrong’s memoir of an enduring friendship, both joyful and stricken. A Bright and Steady Flame: The Story of an… FULL STORY
Goodnight Sunshine
Mark Cameron left behind his software start-up business and loaded his family into a camper van to lead a simpler… FULL STORY
Eldon Lee (1923 – 2018)
The endurance of B.C.’s pioneer doctors was only surpassed by that of their wives according to Eldon Lee, when he… FULL STORY
Medical trailblazer
In her second book, City in Colour: Rediscovered Stories of Victoria’s Multicultural Past (Touchwood 2018), May Q. Wong offers succinct… FULL STORY
#399 Highways of courage
Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion World Tour: 30 Years Later – A Celebration of Courage, Strength, and the Power of… FULL STORY
Bogus solidarity with the poor
Graham Riches’ Food Banks Nations. Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food (Earthscan/Routledge $39.95) has been described as a… FULL STORY
Stenson wins Great BC Novel contest
In 2013, Bill Stenson was a finalist for the 2nd Great BC Novel Contest. In 2017, Mother Tongue Publishing of… FULL STORY
Nine signs of depression
Rob Taylor’s “evidence-based poems” for “Oh Not So Great”: Poems from the Depression Project (Leaf Press $16.95) are derived from… FULL STORY
Tweets & trenches
“Bullets ripped the dirt up all round me but none of them were marked Black Jack.” — George ‘Black Jack’… FULL STORY
The Quest by Manolis
In 2018, at a time when millions are crossing borders to find a better life, the prolific Cretan-Canadian poet and… FULL STORY
#378 Love affair with UBC
The Age of Walter Gage: How One Canadian Shaped the Lives of Thousands by Shelley Fralic [Vancouver]: The Friends of… FULL STORY
