News & Extras
Interview with Katherena Vermette
Jan 20, 2014
Katherena Vermette, a Métis/Mennonite poet, won the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language Poetry for North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Co.). Shayla Elizabeth is a Cree/Iniwé writer/storyteller based in Winnipeg.
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Metastasis and Other Plays
Dec 19, 2013
Metastasis and Other Plays by Alberta playwright Gordon Pengilly is a collection of three plays drawn from a sizable body of work dating back to 1975 that Pengilly has written for stage and radio.
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Boy
Oct 21, 2013
In Victor Enns’s Boy, family and locale figure prominently, as well they might when the topic is adolescence. Enns feels dearly about his sister, not as strongly about his brother, he desperately needs his mother, and Dad keeps a leather belt in his roll-top desk.
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Firewalk
Jul 15, 2013
In Firewalk, Katherine Bitney writes poems against a spectacular northern backdrop of aurora borealis conceived of as a “forest of green girls” (13), with the stag at the winter solstice standing with the sun “mov[ing] lower, into his antlers” (37), and the ever-hungry wolf watching over the animal and human kingdoms.
Read MoreBirk Sproxton: Life, Writing and Remembrance
Jul 4, 2013
by Christian Riegel In mid March, 2007, I answered the phone and mistook Denis Sproxton’s voice for that of his father, Birk.
Read MoreRead Sue Goyette’s winning suite of poems
Jun 24, 2013
On June 7, Sue’s suite of poems “fashion” won silver at the National Magazine Awards gala in Toronto.
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