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
AUTHORS & BOOKS
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
Disgraceful deaths
Tom Sandborn’s Hell’s History: The United Steelworkers’ Fight to Prevent Workplace Deaths and Injuries from the 1992 Westray Mine Disaster… FULL STORY
Good herbs
Medical Herbalist Katolen Yardley MNIMH has published her first book, The Good Living Guide to Natural and Herbal Remedies: Simple… FULL STORY
The ‘Florence Nightingale’ of equines
Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of books about the unsung and extraordinary – mostly women – is set to release his latest in November:… FULL STORY
From exclusion to equality
A journalist since 1990, Ding Guo has contributed to World Economic Review magazine, China Times Weekly, World Journal, Asian Weekly… FULL STORY
Nilsen of Nelson
In her debut book of poems, Otolith (Goose Lane $19,95), Emily Nilsen examines the ache of nostalgia in the world’s… FULL STORY
Granny and her grow ‘op
In Jennifer Craig’s third book Gone to Pot (Second Storey $19.95) Jess, a feisty Nelson-based Grandmother, faces near calamity. On… FULL STORY
A labour of love & labour
“When one reads other accounts of the history of British Columbia since the Second World War,” says Mark Warrior, “the… FULL STORY
From Peachland to Portugal
Born in North Vancouver, Michelle Oucharek-Deo of Port Coquitlam is a Registered Art Therapist who has written a debut novel,… FULL STORY
Greening the getaway
The Bartley family has long maintained a summer home on one of the Gulf Islands. Now mother and daughter, Joan… FULL STORY
Serpentine Loop reprinted
Elee Kraljii Gardiner grew up as the daughter of U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist Tenley Albright. Gardiner’s first collection… FULL STORY
A duty to humanity
With illustrations by Marc Luc Poelvoorde, Helen May’s self-published novel Mother Tongue (Friesen Press 2016) is about a Scottish girl,… FULL STORY
The agony of defeat
A former Olympic rower, Jason Dorland has penned his second book, Pulling Together:A Coach’s Journey to Uncover the Mindset of… FULL STORY
Injustice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Having completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Ottawa, Sarah Wiebe penned Everyday Exposure:Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in… FULL STORY
Tar Wars without George Lucas
Coincidental with the resurgence of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Geo Takach, Ph.D, a writer, filmmaker, workshop leader, and, as… FULL STORY
