ecology The Miramichi Reader

Trout Tracks by Jim McLennan

July 25, 2022 by Bill Arnott

“Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read flyfishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea.”

River Verse: Wong and Wah’s beholden: a poem as long as the river

January 3, 2022 by Cynthia Sharp

In this review, Cynthia Sharp revisits Rita Wong and Fred Wah’s 2018 collaboration “beholden: a poem as long as the river” which explores the ecology of the Columbia River, which has had fourteen dams intercept it, through a lens of respect.

Revisiting Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River by Philip Lee

June 2, 2022December 13, 2021 by Wanda Baxter

In this article, author Wanda Baxter revisits Philip Lee’s “Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River”.

A Newfoundland Maple by Samantha Baker, Illustrated by Dawn Baker (News Release)

November 1, 2020September 25, 2020 by James M. Fisher

While on a fishing trip with his grandfather in western Newfoundland, Daniel discovers a maple tree that has stood there for decades. What he doesn’t realize is just how important it is to the local wildlife

River Revery: Poems by Penn Kemp

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Penn Kemp’s River Revery came to me just before Christmas. It FELT like a present; the cover – Mary McDonald photo, Mike O’Connor design – a copse of evergreens reaching, waving, to an avian line, all in reverential shades of aquamarine.

Black Beach by Glynis Guevara

January 31, 2019December 10, 2018 by James M. Fisher

Sixteen-year-old Tamera lives in La Cresta, a rural fishing community on a Caribbean island. Despite having the support of relatives, including her dad, Earl, her elder sister, Mary and her best friend and first cousin, Jan, she struggles to deal with her mom’s mental health issues and the absence of her boyfriend, Dalton who moves out of the village to work.

The Minted by Will McClelland

June 23, 2017June 13, 2017 by James M. Fisher

Quebec author Will McClelland has published his debut novel, The Minted (2016, Blue Leaf Press) …

The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil by Lesley Choyce

November 13, 2018February 21, 2017 by James M. Fisher

Lesley Choyce is an active, prolific author and his latest title The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil (Roseway Publishing, 2017) is bound to be well-received by the reading public. It is the tale of the octogenarian widower John Alex (as he is known to everyone) living in rural Deepvale, Cape Breton where he still sets a place for his deceased wife of thirty years, Eva. He is someone who has always lived his life without caring what anyone else thought of him. We join him at the story’s outset where he is considering if he really is losing his mind….