David Arnason has spent a lifetime along the shores of Lake Manitoba near the settlement of New Iceland, or Gimli as it is officially known. A keen observer, not much misses his notice and over his lo
Until she met Obrum Kehler, serious Sarah Sudermann had never laughed. Her mother said she always reached for the black things first. As a young girl, she was haunted by a vision of her grandmother b
Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence's third collection of poetry, navigates the theme of settlement through the perspective of a nineteenth century immigrant, as she explores her own feelings of loss and g
Recovering in his hospital room after a burst appendix, hopped up on goof balls and contemplating his own mortality, Dennis Cooley, in his latest book of poetry,departures, constructs, deconstructs, a
A gigantic sea dwelling mosasaur rises from the watery depths and saves the day in the summer blockbusterJurassic World. However, these fearsome waterborne predators were anything but heroic, at nearl
Carla Funk, in her fifth book of poetry, looks with one eye to the small and marvellous, like the glistening trail of the meandering snail, while the other gazes prophetically off into the not-so-dist
Fox moves on quick and elegant feet through the terror and exhilaration of Winnipeg's 1919 General Strike, the most turbulent period of the city's history. In a novel of remarkably vivd, kinetic power
Susan is in labour.As she bears down through waves of contractions, Susan free associates her way through the pain, counting off each centimeter gained like a maternal Twelve Day of Christmas.Framed b