RIP Robin Mathews (1931 – 2023)

“A long-time nationalist academic, author and poet, Robin Mathews (pictured at left) has died. From the 1960s he courted controversy in his efforts to have Canadian culture taken seriously.FULL STORY

 

 

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Science NOT silence

When the elements of survival we all depend on are threatened, people’s health, well-being and even their lives are also… FULL STORY

Boy’s best friend

Author Darren Groth, an advocate for neurodiversity in literature based the boy, Kasper and dog, Tao on his son and… FULL STORY

Going for Wayman

Wayman helped bring into being a new movement of “work poetry” in North America, and was a co-founder and prominent… FULL STORY

Ode to the womb of war

The four poetic narratives in “The Ventriloquist” all share Gary Geddes’ preoccupations with the physical and psychological ravages of conquest… FULL STORY

Failed to return

Much has been written about Bomber Command but little of the feelings of the aircrew who followed orders without question… FULL STORY

Veins of the Earth

In his new book about major North American rivers, UBC professor Eric Taylor shows why rivers are key to human… FULL STORY

Island Life

A couple on Saturna Island had to be “takers and makers of opportunities” says reviewer Christa Grace-Warrick, with jobs like… FULL STORY

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