Excerpt: Bodies in Trouble by Diane Carley
Bodies in Trouble, depicts characters coping with faltering relationships, simmering violence, and light-drenched visions.
Month: April 2022
Lucy and Bonbon: A Novel, by Don LePan
Lucy and Bonbon is the story of mother and child, and of the controversy that swirls around them over the course of the child’s first fourteen years. It is a story of freedom and captivity, of love and friendship, of borders and of border crossings, and of what it means to be a human animal.
Let the World Have You: Poems by Mikko Harvey
Mikko Harvey’s new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In poems at once surreal, satiric, and tender, we encounter a cast of surprising non-human characters.
Season 2, Episode 10: April 15, 2022
In this episode, I talk with Carolyn R. Parsons. author and editor. Carolyn R. Parsons is a Newfoundland & Labrador author with a background in freelance journalism and is the owner-operator of Cabochon Manuscript Services.
Extraordinary Canadians: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation, by Peter Mansbridge, with Mark Bulgutch
The ability to distill a wealth of information into the cogent facts, and then weave those facts into a story that reads logically and builds to a conclusion is a skill, and Mansbridge and Bulgutch have executed it well.
Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel by Ron Crocker
Ray Guy: Portrait of a Rebel is a testament and a toast to Ray Guy’s brilliant writing. It is also a compelling biography of a complex man with an incredible gift.
Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo
From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry.
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials And Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital By Jesse Donaldson & Erika Dyck
From the street, New Westminster’s Hollywood Hospital didn’t look like much – just a rambling white mansion, mostly obscured behind the holly trees from which it took its name.
Top Ten Posts & Pages: March 2022
Top ten posts and pages with the number of clicks for March 2022, according to TMR’s Google’s Search Console.
Synaptic by Alison Calder
In Synaptic, each section explores key themes in science, neurology, and perception.
The Tawahum Bige Interview
With World Poetry Month (April) beating a path to our door once more, I wanted to engage in a dialogue with Tawahum Bige about all things poetry and the universe with someone who has a screaming new book baby entering this cruel world quite soon.
Almost Beauty: Poems by Sue Sinclair
This collection includes an introductory essay by editor and poet Ross Leckie, over one hundred selected poems from Sinclair’s twenty-year career, and new poems that consider the poet’s evolving relationships with the idea of beauty and with the more-than-human world in a time of manufactured upheaval.
The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry: the 2020 Pratt Lecture By Mary Dalton
Mary Dalton’s 2020 Pratt Lecture engages with the vernacular voice in Newfoundland poetry, illustrating the move from uncertainty to acceptance and welcoming of the beauty and variety of the language of Newfoundland.
