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Les photographies servent de fenêtres, d’échos de mots dans ce premier recueil de poésie
Foncer vers la côte Ouest et transmettre sa beauté et son mystère en vers instinctifs et rythmés – c’est ce qu’a réussi le poète d’origine suisse Gaspard Amée avec son premier recueil Sasamat, dont le titre évoque un lac situé à proximité de Port Moody en Colombie-Britannique. -
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Photographs serve as windows, echoes of text in debut poetry collection
To transmit the beauty and mystery of the West Coast in instinctive and rhythmic verse – this is what the Swiss-born poet Gaspard Amée manages to achieve with his first collection of poetry Sasamat, whose title evokes a lake located near Port Moody in British Columbia. -
En FrançaisPoèmes et histoires évoquent des émotions sincères dans un mélange littéraire et visuel
Quatre autrices de l’Ouest partagent à cœur ouvert ce qui les inspire dans un nouveau recueil de poésie, conte et récits, À cœur ouvert : Quatre voix au féminin de l’Ouest canadien. -
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Poems, stories evoke heartfelt emotion in mix of literature and visuals
Four Western Canadian women writers open their hearts in a new collection of poems and stories called À cœur ouvert: Quatre voix au féminin de l’Ouest Canadien. -
PoetryPoet took her time to grow 2nd book from themes of monsters, fairy tales, and her own body
Courtney Bates-Hardy’s first collection of poetry, House of Mystery, came out in 2016. “My first book was written as my master’s thesis, and I was cramming the writing into lunch breaks while working full-time,” Bates-Hardy notes. “I still work full-time, and the nerve pain I experience makes it difficult to be at a desk or bent over a notebook for long periods of time.” -
FictionSurreal tale of professor and disembodied head a call to embrace the mess
“I have always liked surreal stories and ones that are just beyond my own understanding,” says Edmonton author Robyn Braun. In fact, her penchant for these types of stories served as the inspiration for her new novella, The Head. Suspenseful, urgent, and thought-provoking, the tale centres on Trish, a 30-year-old math professor who finds a live disembodied head crying in her apartment. -
FictionStory collection is proof of passion kept alive as author moved from literature to law
Nigerian Canadian Irehobhude O. Iyioha started writing early, when she was about six years old. She always knew she wanted to write, and she says “leaving the English and Literature Department (at the University of Benin in Nigeria) to study law did not change the passion.” -
FictionMerry Bell returns to investigate missing quarterback in 2nd book of series
Anthony Bidulka’s new novel, From Sweetgrass Bridge, is the second in his Merry Bell mystery series about a trans private investigator who returns to her hometown in Saskatchewan and sets up shop. -
FictionAnyone can be a hero, even if he’s ‘kind of an idiot,’ in new graphic novel
Everyone wants to be the hero. That could mean swinging between buildings on webs of your own design to save the day. That could mean being a firefighter and pulling people out of a burning building. That could mean being the person in the office who brings in doughnuts for no other reason than making everyone’s day. -
Poetry‘Bonded relationship’ to 120-year-old house at centre of new poetry collection
What makes a home? What is the importance of rootedness? Catherine Owen explores these questions in a new collection of poetry, Moving to Delilah. The poems recount the experience of Owen’s move from an apartment in Vancouver to a house in Edmonton, and the new and surprising aspects of owning a home, growing a garden, and participating more deeply in community.
