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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Hapless at Hotel Hopeless
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Hope expects to have an uneventful summer helping his mother at the family hotel. He only sees two… FULL STORY
A raven in Xsan
Gitxsan member, Hetxw’ms Gyetxw, also known as Brett D. Huson has published the sixth title in his award-winning series ‘Mothers… FULL STORY
What is truth?
In seeking to answer Pontius Pilate’s trolling question, “What is truth?” Jennifer Zilm turns to a variety of sources and… FULL STORY
Phyllis Dyson
In 1970, Phyllis Dyson was an infant when she moved from Ottawa to Burnaby with her brother and single parent… FULL STORY
Snow nomad
Born in Malta to a British family, the son of a Royal Navy officer, Alan Dennis didn’t plan a career… FULL STORY
Ode to Iceland
Harold Rhenisch continues his love affair with Iceland (and his ongoing investigation of land and place) in his latest collection… FULL STORY
Passing on knowledge and passion
What is a good feminist and how is it learned? More particularly, how does one learn – through ideas, feelings… FULL STORY
Hilary the welder
For more than two decades Hilary Peach worked as a welder and was one of the few women in the… FULL STORY
Super cats
North Delta-raised Ian Boothby, an award-winning comedy writer best known for his work on The Simpsons comics (based on the… FULL STORY
