Birth effects
In Elizabeth Ross’ poetic primer for new mothers, After Birth (Palimpset $18.95), the messy moments and distasteful discoveries she writes… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Tiger and the Robot
Grahame Shannon’s first novel, Tiger and the Robot, begins with the annual Swiftsure Yacht Race in the Strait of Juan… FULL STORY
Claiming claims Bazzie Prize
Daniel Marshall won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia for his book Claiming the land: British… FULL STORY
Salt and Ashes from Drobnies
Adrienne Drobnies will launch her first book at Book Warehouse on Main St. in Vancouver on Tuesday, June 4 at… FULL STORY
Stevan launches in Campbell River
Diana Stevan’s fourth novel, Sunflowers Under Fire, will be launched on May 7th at the Campbell River library, followed by author… FULL STORY
Leila Kulpas
In her memoir, Into the Eyes of Hungry: Growing up in the Wilds of Australia (Cadbach, 2019) Leila Kulpas recounts,… 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
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
Margaret Cadwaladr
With support from the Darts Hill Garden Conservancy Trust Society and the City of Surrey Cultural Grants Program, Margaret Cadwaladr… FULL STORY
Book Prizes born anew
Running the BC Book Prizes is no cake walk. It’s an easy way to make friends. It also paves the… FULL STORY
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
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 poems now… 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
