Songs of life and death

“Russell Thornton (left) brings together poems written over two decades, shaped by North Vancouver landscapes and a lifelong engagement with eros and mortality in his new collection, Two Songs.” FULL STORY



 

 

 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

From firm to farm

Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1947, Lawrence Pierce of Hornby Island, B.C, was a trial lawyer in downtown Vancouver… FULL STORY

Z is for Zabliewicz

With a Ph.D from Berkeley, Denise Zabliewicz of the SFU Health Sciences faculty has chiefly examined issues of employment and… FULL STORY

She’d rather be in Italy

As an associate professor in History and Humanities at SFU, Emily O’Brien has examined the autobiography of the fifteenth-century humanist… FULL STORY

X is for X.alatsep

Joseph Dandurand is a member of the Kwantlen First Nation for whom he has worked as Heritage/Lands officer for 20… FULL STORY

Unflappable but flammable

“We live such flammable lives,” writes Miranda Pearson in the title poem for her fourth collection, The Fire Extinguisher (Oolichan… FULL STORY

Smiley paces

Formerly a world class skier, Cat Smiley of Whistler, B.C. is a body transformation specialist and owner of a weight-loss… FULL STORY

Feisty at 97

At 97, H. Barry Cotton has gathered almost a century’s worth of wisdom for a collection of mostly political poetry,… FULL STORY

Ten ships that made waves

Former teacher-librarian Gillian Richardson of Shuswap Lake, near Sorrento, B.C., won the 2010 Science Writing Award from the American Institute… FULL STORY

When telepathy is helpful

Combining biography, history and literary analysis, George M. Johnson’s Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling… FULL STORY

Tippett’s top eight

While residing on Pender Island, Maria Tippett has completed Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture (Harbour $32.95)… FULL STORY

Beavers R Us

Once upon a time there probably 60 million beavers in North America. But the arrival of European fur traders almost… FULL STORY

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