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Ariel Gordon is the author of Hump, a mash-up of pregnancy and mothering poems and urban/nature/love poems that functions as an anti-sentiment manifesto. Month by month, stanza by stanza, Gordon attempts to adequately represent the wonder and devilment of being-with-child. Hump is a love poem written simultaneously to a father and child, to a lover [...]
Betty Jane Hegerat, author of Delivery, will be reading in Calgary Where: Pages on Kensington bookstore When: Sept 2nd Time: 7:30 pm Betty Jane says: The Boy, my new book, is scheduled for spring 2011. The Boy grew out of a memory seed planted 50 years ago when a family was murdered in a small [...]
Book Club Discussion Tips Anything that generates conversation will provide a desirable path into a book club discussion, so open-ended questions are useful. One individual in your group may be interested in the psychology of characters. Another may focus on historical detail. Someone else may approach the book from a feminist perspective. Multiple interests and [...]
Brian Brett gave us a great video interview at his home on Trauma Farm, about his memoir of the same name. The book is a fascinating and unusual walk through rural life on the farm of a brilliant and prolific author. Through many challenges his forbearance, talent, and great sense of humour shine through on [...]
These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada”s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities of the human heart. A dying Finn, a philandering photographer recovering from an emergency splenectomy, a young woman heavy with an hysterical [...]
Delivery, by Betty Jane Hegerat. Oolichan Books, 2009. 306 pp. Set on Quadra Island on Canada’s west coast where a desperate grandmother has fled with her infant granddaughter under her arm, Delivery explores the emotional maelstrom of an unplanned pregnancy, and an abrupt mid-life transition. Lynn Howard has just begun to appreciate the freedom of [...]
About Borderlands What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Two things: First, the drama and physical difficulty and danger of my motorcycle rides. I’ve long become used to the fact that I rode thousands of miles through hard country in lousy weather on bad roads, and that, for a good [...]
Lisa Moore’s Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John’s, Newfoundland — a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in Flannery O’Connor country. Its denizens jostle each other in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, lust, and ambition, while yearning [...]
One of the most highly anticipated novels of the year, Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage’s bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro’s Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal’s restless immigrant community, where a self-described “thief” has just tried but failed to commit [...]
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