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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.

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Birk 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.

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Read 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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The Age of Hope

May 2, 2013

Hope Plett, the protagonist of David Bergen’s seventh novel, The Age of Hope, makes her first appearance at the tail end of a misguided attempt at aerial daredevilry.

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