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September 29, 2016At the Desk: Scott Chantler
Writer and illustrator Scott Chantler has been nominated multiple times for the Dragon Prize (presented by the prestigious Joe Shuster Awards) and been honoured with awards from the Canadian Children's ...
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January 16, 2020League of Canadian Poets Announces Theme, Event Information for National Poetry Month 2020
We're getting closer to April, which also means we're getting closer to National Poetry Month!The League of Canadian Poets have formally announced that this year's theme will be "A World of Poetry". Organizers ...
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April 25, 2015
Geology, Thinking, and a Tent
As Jan Zwicky’s Wittgensteinian “The Geology of Norway” kept and keeps circling through my mind and body, I remembered Liz Howard’s gorgeous poem, “Thinktent,” which also works with, among ...
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April 24, 2015
On Being Led by a Poem
Yesterday evening, a friend emailed me a copy of Jan Zwicky’s “The Geology of Norway” from the collection Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (Brick Books, 1998). I’d never read the poem before, ...
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March 13, 2017Contest! Win Books from KidsCan New YA Imprint!
Do you love YA books or have a young reader in your life who does? Why not bulk up your YA library with four - count 'em, four! - brand new titles? KidsCan Press, known for their beloved children's books, ...
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May 11, 2009
Duppy Business?
“Man proposes, God disposes.”The disposition in this case concerns the rear window on the driver’s side of our Civic.We’d said goodbye to our daughter, her husband and our granddaughter five minutes ...
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March 24, 2017Robert J. Sawyer on Psychopaths, Adaptations, and the State of Publishing
Robert J. Sawyer is one of Canada's most successful writers, both at home and abroad. He's one of only seven writers in the world to have won all three of the top English-language science fiction awards ...
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January 14, 2017Valentine's Shadow
The terrible weight of Valentine's Day is exactly one month away. What better way to celebrate its inexorable gravity than to discuss one of those topics rarely discussed in relation to the writing ...
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June 06, 2019Read an Excerpt from Linda Quennec's Fishing for Birds, A Novel of BC and Cuba
In Linda Quennec's Fishing for Birds (Inanna Publications) widow at just 32, leaves her home in Vancouver Island searching for solace. After settling on a tiny island, she meets Ivy, whose stories ...
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February 16, 2020
Blogpost #4: START TO FINISH, The Story Behind the Story 2- A Likkle Miss Lou
In this second instalment of my START TO FINISH, The Story Behind the Story series, I focus on my latest picture book A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found ...