The first time I ever saw a Joy Laking painting was many years back when scrolling through the internet. There before me was her image of – Joan’s Chairs. I immediately looked up the artist and found her website. I have been a fan of hers ever since. This painting is included in her book The Painted Province and it was wonderful to see it again here.…
Reading a novel by Lesley Cynthia Crewe is like covering yourself in an old quilt. You know you can settle in and get cozy, wrap yourself in the words and let the characters and their memories keep you company as you read.
Emmeline Darling, the book’s main character, revisits her past as she reads aloud from her memoir at a writing class she takes in her retirement years.…
Everyone experiences grief in their own way. Sheree Fitch is a writer and it made perfect sense for her to write about a mother’s deepest grief – the loss of a child. Within the pages of this book, Sheree shares thoughts and emotions in a continuous poem broken up between pages with the style changing throughout.
Sheree uses many forms of free verse to communicate her grief. …
was drawn to the cover art of Doing Time. I felt it was so very fitting to the content. Thank you, Claire Bennet, at Pottersfield Press for sending me the e-pub version of this book. I had so wanted to read it as part of my personal exploration of poetry, old and new, for April which is Poetry Month. This book gave me the perfect opportunity to expand my reading knowledge in this genre. …
Rhindress takes his reader on a Canadian coast to coast journey as we travel with this drifter man, Stompin’ Tom Connors. Through the research and details of this book, I met the man Tom Connors and the character Stompin’ Tom Connors. After finishing the book I reflected on how strong this man was in the courage of his conviction to stay true to Canada, the country he was so proud of.…
