John Ibbitson – Stephen Harper (2015)
A well-written biography of the former prime minister, with identification of the effect of beneficial policies, but without sufficient assessment of the impact of detrimental policies, which far...
View ArticleIcelandic-Canadian Pacifist Poet Stephan G. Stephansson – Markerville, Alberta
Stephan G. Stephansson can be regarded as Alberta’s first poet of international repute. He is renowned in Iceland as the greatest Icelandic poet since the 13th century. Icelandic heads of state...
View ArticleDouglas Penick – Dreamers and Their Shadows (2013)
I voted for the losing side, but then: “The world is not arranged for your benefit, you know. The world has continued this far and will continue without reference to you. You may wish to believe that...
View ArticleThoughts Suggested by the 77th Anniversary of World War II
Yale University’s Timothy Snyder’s book, Black Earth, the Holocaust as History and Warning, is being promoted by the Vancouver Public Library. Reading in the book today, on September 1st, I came to...
View ArticleOil, Gas, and the Relentless Decline of Community – andrea bennett – Mahler...
andrea bennett’s poem You can put your fingers on the feelings appeared in the same Canadian Literature 216 issue as my poem Chrysoglott. I am reminded of this coincidence after reading her article...
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