Happy National Poetry Month!
April is National Poetry Month! What are you reading? If you’re looking for ideas, here are some excellent poetry collections to get you started!
Emma Rhodes
Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #25
Why do your favourite Canadian authors write the books they write? Let’s find out in this exclusive feature here at The Miramichi Reader
Celebrate International Women’s Day 2024 with TMR 🎉
March 8th is International Women’s day! To celebrate, here are some great reads written and reviewed by women. Check it out!
March’s “Win A Blind Date With a Book” Giveaway!
What is the TMR “Win a Blind Date With a Book” giveaway? How can one one join?
Johnny Depp Wins, And I, Like So Many Others, Think of The Man Who Abused Me by Emma Rhodes
A poem by Emma Rhodes. The poem is about the extremely harmful media attention the case got, and public attitudes towards people who come forward with accusations of abuse.
Land of the Rock: Talamn an Carraig by Heather Nowlan
The speaker in the poems that form Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig travels through Newfoundland and Ireland looking for meaning in words, places, and behaviour.
The Music Game by Stéphanie Clermont
An ode to friendship and the ties that bind us together, Stéfanie Clermont’s award-winning The Music Game confronts the violence of the modern world and pays homage to those who work in the hope and faith that it can still be made a better place.
Phantompains by Therese Estacion
Phantompains by Therese Estacion carries readers through the narrator’s healing process after surviving a rare bacterial infection, but not without losing both legs below the knees, several fingers, and her uterus.
Bill Arnott’s The Gamble Novellas
We’re excited to announce the first three installments of The Gamble, bestseller Bill Arnott’s e-book novella series (suspense, intrigue, action and humour) are now in a single volume, “The Gamble Novellas: Books 1-2-3.”
The Fred Groves Interview
Author and journalist Fred Groves tackles gender disparity in Canadian politics. Highlighting women who have climbed the ranks as Federal Opposition leaders and Cabinet Ministers as well as those who are relative newcomers to Canada’s political scene, the book questions why, after over 100 years of voting rights, so few women end up in positions …
Operation Wormwood: The Reckoning by Helen C. Escott
The long-awaited sequel to Operation Wormwood (2018, Flanker Press), The Reckoning concludes the story of a disease that appears to only target pedophiles and is accredited to God by those of the Roman Catholic Church. I don’t think it is too much of a stretch to say that Helen C. Escott is Newfoundland’s premier crime-thriller …
A Memoir in Poetry: You Won’t Always Be This Sad by Sheree Fitch
I opened up Sheree Fitch’s memoir in poetry You Won’t Always be this Sad and was sobbing by page thirty. The famous Maritime author breaks our hearts once again as we follow along on her journey through grief after her son, Dustin, died at thirty-seven on March 2, 2018. Fitch describes the path to the …
2020 “The Very Best!” Book Awards: Best Non-Fiction
This year’s non-fiction finalists are a mix of a travelogue, a personal battle with PTSD and loss, and finding gratitude despite facing adversity. GOLD: Silver Linings by Janice Landry (Pottersfield Press) SILVER: Around The World In A Dugout Canoe by John M. MacFarlane and Lynn J. Salmon (Harbour Publishing) BRONZE: A Medic’s Mind by Matthew …
2020: “The Very Best!” First Book Winners!
The “Best First Book” award goes to the first published book by an author. It can be either fiction or non-fiction. In their book, the author has demonstrated that their debut book is not a “one-off”. Indeed, the writing should be so good that the reader is eagerly anticipating their next effort. Here are the …
