Like inhaling a hot cup of tea
Victoria’s Poet Laureate (appointed in 2015 for a 4-year term) also writes creative non-fiction. Yvonne Blomer’s recently published Sugar Ride:… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
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
The boys in the van
As a pop music aficionado, Grant Lawrence must have known before he decided to publish his memoir of being lead… FULL STORY
Fir Valley
Jason Turner of Vancouver is a comic book artist whose first graphic novel, Fir Valley (2017), is set in North… FULL STORY
Grub & grapes
Kimberley Veness of Adams Lake learned to love land, animals, growing food and the smell of manure on a ninety-acre… FULL STORY
Always a bridesmaid
Indefatigable author Neil McKinnon, has come close to winning three literary awards this year. His unpublished manuscript, Yoshida’s Sword, placed second… FULL STORY
Plant-Based Cheesemaking
For all those cheese-loving vegans who thought they had to give it up or resort to unappetizing non-dairy ‘cheeses’ found… FULL STORY
Love & other natural disasters
How do you follow up winning the Alice Munro Short Story Contest? In the case of Leanne Dunic, you write… FULL STORY
Thieving goddesses and roving octopi
A cow-eyed goddess steals a nymph’s tongue. Steering wheels are taken over by octopi. These are some of the images… FULL STORY
Stories of desparation and anger
Creative writing instructor John Mavin has published his first collection of short fiction stories. Rage (Thistledown $18.95) loosely follows a… FULL STORY
Utopians R Us
Andrew Scott’s well-researched The Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in British Columbia (Harbour $24.95) is a revised and updated second… FULL STORY
Injun on Griffin shortlist
Injun, by Jordan Abel (Talonbooks $16.95), has been shortlisted for the Canadian shortlist of the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. He… FULL STORY
Oghma’s In Your Face
After a severe accident caused agnosia—the inability to recognize and identify objects or persons—Emisch Oghma of Victoria began studying and… FULL STORY
Ormsby #114 Genocide in slow motion
Gary Geddes tells it like it was: sterilization, starvation, botched operations, sexual abuse, medical experiments, absence of family and neglect…. FULL STORY
It’s a Try!
Rugby was first played in Victoria, B.C. in 1877. The Rugby Union of Canada existed from 1929 to 1939. Reformed… FULL STORY
Searing images in “Collecting Silence”
North Saanich’s Ulrike Narwani has published her first book of poems, Collecting Silence (Ronsdale $15.95) covering a life arc through… FULL STORY
Malaysia meets Chandler
Born in Malaysia, William Tham Wai Liang published his first novel, Kings of Petalling Street (Fixi London 2017), about fate,… FULL STORY
