Indigiqueerness is a lean, skinny book full of meat. At just under 100 pages, it is a comprehensive dive into who is Joshua Whitehead. And, through this vessel, what makes a storyteller?
four essays examining the artist Donald Andrus’ work throughout his career, spanning his different creative periods, his inspirations and larger scale projects, and his meditations on his own career and life.
Burgess discusses tourist attractions that have succeeded and failed. His description of his experiences at a temple in Nara, Japan had me laughing . . .
There is an intimacy to walking with my dog at night”, says Gary Barwin, in this small book of wonder tales.
A combined review of Biblioasis’ Best Canadian Essays and Poetry 2024.
In Off the Record, John Metcalf encourages six writers to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers.
Exclusive Memory: A Perceptual History of the Future is a compendium of descriptive, speculative prose and text-images by the Governor General’s Award-winning artist, Tom Sherman.
Nick Thran’s volume of essays, stories and poems is a quietly powerful meditation on a life of reading, writing and bookselling.
The anthology, Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works, compiled and edited by Bianca Lakoseljac, examines Wiebe’s works and his achievements as an author, editor, professor and mentor who helped shape successful authors and encouraged a passion for Canadian literature.
Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form.
Discipline n. v. is a lyric memoir that fuses poetry and academic theory, speaking to the metaphorical power of humanities scholarship.
“Dundas peels back the ways we think about poverty, the definitions of class, the way class intersects with the other –
‘isms,'”
In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship.
If you’re looking for an entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking read, The Wisdom Found in Hen’s Teeth just might fill the bill.
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