BC bridges
It would be putting it mildly to say that BC’s rugged geography presented challenges to road and rail builders. Engineers… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Prayer and protest
Named after an actual street in Vancouver, Jen Currin’s fifth collection of poetry, Trinity Street (House of Anansi $19.99) due… FULL STORY
Murderer or victim?
In S.M. Freedman’s psychological thriller, Blood Atonement (Dundurn $22.99) Grace DeRoche escapes the fundamentalist Mormon compound of Brigham and works… FULL STORY
Female suffering
Vancouver-based Megan Fennya Jones’s poetry has appeared in publications across North America including Poetry Northwest, Room Magazine, and PRISM International,… FULL STORY
Spit-your-coffee-out funny
Victoria’s funny man, Jack Knox has released his fourth collection of comedic stories about the absurdities of island living, Fortune… FULL STORY
The ecologist-poet
Ecologist and writer, Don Gayton of Summerland meanders (in a seemingly effortless way) from animals and scenery to etymology, poetry,… FULL STORY
War and love
Janie Chang has completed her fourth historical fiction novel, The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and… FULL STORY
Dread husband and café man
Victoria is an unhappily married woman who buries her melancholy in books and daydreaming in Robin Yeatman’s debut novel, Bookworm… FULL STORY
New jacket for Coupland’s 2010 book
Due out October 18, Douglas Coupland’s 2010 CBC Massey Lectures book with a new jacket designed by the author, Player… FULL STORY
Stories behind the songs
Known in Canada as an important roots musician and songwriter with an international following, four years ago David Essig began… FULL STORY
The politics of text
Essayist, poet, and art theorist Kim Dhillon has published Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art (Reaktion Books US$32) about the use… FULL STORY
Mesmerizing lamentations
Victoria writer, poet and environmentalist Maleea Acker heeded the advice of an elder poet who told her that activities like… FULL STORY
All that graces our finite days
Calvin White’s fourth collection of poetry, Facing the Sweating Horse (Now Or Never $19.95) embraces all life and matter –… FULL STORY
Yin poems from 1200 years ago
Poet and translator, Peter Levitt of Salt Spring Island says that after three years of “diligent and truly joyous work,”… FULL STORY
Squirrel-loving translator
In Claire McCague’s first book of the Rosetta Series, The Rosetta Man (EDGE, 2016), the squirrel-loving Estlin Hume is adopted… FULL STORY
Living in exile
Tsering Yangzom Lama of Vancouver has published her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies (McClelland & Stewart… FULL STORY
Hard lessons
From 1962 to 1968, Richard de Candole attended the St. John’s Cathedral Boys School of Selkirk, Manitoba (no longer in… FULL STORY
Alternate realities
Tamel Wino writes in the style of dark fiction and focuses on the degeneration of sanity and morality. His recent… FULL STORY
An actress, the playwright & her doctor
Melia McClure’s second novel, All the World’s a Wonder (Radiant Press $22) tells of three people who intersect through their… FULL STORY
The travel cure
While trapped as a teenager in suburbia, Lisa Duncan dreamed of travelling the world. As a young adult, she mastered… FULL STORY
