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  No Depression in Heaven

  ryan fitzpatrick

  With characteristic playfulness and cutting wit, fitzpatrick’s new collection is a poetry “LP” of 10 “tracks,” complete with liner notes, that draws on country music, riffing off of and bending its rhythms and lyrics to address today’s uncertainties and anxieties, to resist looking to the past for comfort.

  (Talonbooks, $19.95 Paperback, 128 pages, ISBN: 978-17-72016-95-6)  

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  That’s Where You Were, Then

  Judith Pond

  Through wry and often absurd linked stories, readers witness the life of Jen, from her rough rural childhood in Nova Scotia, where she deals matter-of-factly with a younger brother with a disability, a baby sister, a depressed mother, and motley neighbours, to her adulthood in Calgary where she is an addictions counsellor.

  (Freehand Books, $22.95 Paperback, 312 pages, ISBN: 978-19-90601-97-2)  

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