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The Heavy Bear by Tim Bowling
Aug 17, 2018
The Heavy Bear is Tim Bowling’s latest novel and like In the Suicide’s Library (2004) its focus is on the ghosts of great male artists.
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Children Shouldn’t Use Knives by Shirley Camia
Aug 9, 2018
Shirley Camia’s eleven spare, imagistic poems are so very slight—wispy, flickering at the edges of what children perceive and remember.
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PF @ 40 Part 3: My Experience with the Early Sparks of Prairie Fire By Armin Wiebe
Aug 3, 2018
So it’s the 1970s and I have this crazy notion that I will be a writer. In Manitoba.
Read MorePF @ 40 Part 2: Galley-Proofs Beyond Killer Highway by Carolyn Creed
Jul 27, 2018
One might think an hour’s drive toward editorial work would prove as easy as breath taken and expelled, but no—
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The Midwife of Torment & Other Stories by Paulo da Costa
Jul 25, 2018
The author’s subtitle, “60 Sudden Fictions,” illuminates much of what a reader experiences in delving into Midwife of Torment:
Read MorePF @ 40 Part 1: Notes Towards a Memoir by Rory Runnells
Jul 20, 2018
What does memory bring? More exactly what do we bring to memory? In the case of the early days of Prairie Fire, one remembers the coming together of several disparate artists and administrators at the cramped space on Donald St., the Arts Administrative Centre.
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