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Non-FictionHistory, function of Winnipeg Police Service held up for examination, critique
James Wilt has spent the last several years researching and writing about the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS), and his book Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police gathers both new and previously published essays written from late 2023 to early 2024. -
Non-FictionOne incarcerated woman’s experience illuminates legal and theoretical issues
Robin Hansen already knew that in most legal jurisdictions in Canada, a child born to an incarcerated woman is automatically separated from their mother at birth. However, this really hit home when in 2016 she received a phone call from “Jacquie,” an Indigenous woman serving a custodial prison sentence who was weeks away from giving birth. -
Young Adult/ChildrenResearch grows into graphic novel following 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous hockey player
Albert McLeod, together with Elaine Mordoch, Sonya Ballantyne, and illustrator Alice RL, have created Between the Pipes, a YA graphic novel about a 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous hockey player named Chase, who is struggling to come to terms with his identity, and how the Elders in Chase’s community and their cultural teachings play a vital role in supporting him. -
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.”
