A new hockey origins tale

“Musqueam storyteller, the late Henry Charles (at left) wrote a tale retelling the origins of hockey through an Indigenous lens. His story has now been published.FULL STORY

 

Medievalist’s contemporary poetry

November 19th, 2020

Medievalist, political activist and retired professor emerita of SFU’s English department, Sheila Delany has published a collection of poems, Crowded Mirror (Durga 2019). The bawdiness of Chaucer echos in her work. In Piss-Poem she writes: Last night I dreamt I wanted to write poetry and / to piss. Same thing: extrusion, exposé — / but be sure to put it in / the right place. In another poem, Birthday eve, Delany declares: If there’s two things I know / how to do in the dark, / one of them is write. 9781771367660

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