A Steady Brightness of Being is a moving collection of letters by celebrated Indigenous Voices from across Turtle Island (North America) with titles like “Dear Relative,” “Letter to Clouds,” and “Dreaming, Listening, Belonging.”
This is a particularly raw collection of poetry, I felt, the blank verse tumbling across the page in a cry to be read and felt.
Here, Skeet’s invasion of white space picks up where Eyes Bottle Dark left off and begins with the haunting image of a herd of 191 free-roaming horses found dead, thigh and neck-deep at a stock pond on the Navajo Nation, evaporated through extreme drought caused by “decades-long aggression by the United States and the changing climate”.
It is, for a lack of a better term, a living explanation, one which comes to the reader in images and feelings, delivered with a logic that is not static but flowing. For me, it was an exhausting but beautiful reading experience, intense and unforgettable.
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination is an impossibly patient telling of how the author sees us, seeing him.
Having returned to the literary scene with her third poetry collection, procession, vermette welcomes readers into the intricacy of genealogy, of honouring one’s ancestors and future kin while navigating one’s identity—both spiritually and through art.
The Strategy sets out a framework for the actions the University is taking and will take as it decolonizes itself and becomes a more equitable institution.
Hosted at York University, the free, public events gather writers, artists, and thinkers from various disciplines and geographies to discuss the most pressing issues of our time. The insights shared at the live and streamed events are later transcribed and expanded in artful books published by Alchemy, a Knopf Canada publishing program, in collaboration with York University.
This is a remarkable book about a remarkable — and ongoing — project.
Johnny Delivers by Wayne Ng is a top read of this year for me … Family tensions dominate the action in Wayne’s Ng’s pulsating novel, Johnny Delivers.
The Hyphen by Maria João Maciel Jorge is a beautiful collection of essays filled with passion, memories, and thoughts. The author, Jorge, is an Azorean-Canadian immigrant and academic.
September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in so-called-Canada.
How many of us took “The Oka Crisis” at face value of media portrayal? Something along the line of lawless warriors in masks opposing the police in the summer of 1990? There were blockades and a militarized zone. Traffic inconveniences going into Montreal. You may recall that a golf course was set to dig up an Indigenous graveyard.
The behind the scenes story is more complex, and long-standing, with not a lot of overlap with what was told in the media.
Rubble Children is an important book given the current climate, it’s Kreuter’s characterization and storytelling abilities that make it a must-read.
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