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A Woman Clothed in Words
Jan 24, 2013
Embodied in a wonderful cover illustration, the title A Woman Clothed in Words is a phrase twice abducted, from a Szumigalski poem which, like a shaman’s robe, is itself woven from sacred flotsam, favourite lines from Patrick Friesen, into an homage to him, “The Thin Pale Man” (91).
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There are many ways to die while travelling in Peru
Jan 24, 2013
The main difference between travellers of old and today’s wanderers is that the former did not have to travel far from home to find themselves in a truly alien and dangerous territory teeming with shadows and tricksters.
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A Difficult Beauty
Jan 24, 2013
An accomplished poet with several books of poetry, David Groulx presents us with a new collection, A Difficult Beauty.
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Dating
Jan 24, 2013
Dave Williamson’s protagonist, Jenkins, is horny. His wife of many years, Barbara, passed away a couple of years before. And now, Jenkins is looking for love in all the wrong places. Will Jenkins find love or, at least, a cure for his horniness? That’s what this novel is all about.
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The Puzzling and Mysterious Other: Animals in Sharon Butala’s The Perfection of the Morning
Jan 17, 2013
by Pam Chamberlain (a slightly edited version of this essay appears in Prairie Fire 33.3) In Sharon Butala’s bestselling and award-winning The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature, the narrator moves from the city of Saskatoon1 to a ranch on the southern Saskatchewan plains where she immerses herself in nature in an attempt […]
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An interview with Sharon Butala
Nov 22, 2012
by Geoff Hancock The following interviews took place over three mornings at my place in Stratford, Ontario. From May until October during the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Gay Allison and I operate a bed and breakfast. Sharon arrived for some theatre and fine dining. But we managed to find some focus and clarity for some morning […]
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