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A strong debut collection from Montreal poet Oana Avasilichioaei, Abandon is filled with the richness of a country?s history. The poet melds the legends of Romania with its new reality in her vivid and insightful poetry. Dragons rub shoulders with Mountaineers with bad teeth. ... Read more
A strong debut collection from Montreal poet Oana Avasilichioaei, Abandon is filled with the richness of a country?s history. The poet melds the legends of Romania with its new reality in her vivid and insightful poetry. Dragons rub shoulders with Mountaineers with bad teeth. Women wash carpets in the river, and builders wall women into Monasteries. This is a rich collection and a very promising new voice in Canadian poetry.
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Carlie Blume lists her poetry muse(s) behind her collection Gigglepuss (Guernica Editions) as "a collective of all the empathetic, hard working women in my life": most notably her grandmother, who made the incredibly difficult, incredibly brave decision to pursue MAID. ... Read more
Today's Poetry Muse's featured poet is Salimah Valiani: activist, researcher, and author of 29 leads to Love (Inanna Publications). In our Q&A, Salimah shares how in her new collection she traces love in 29 different ways, and how her muse for this collection is al-jinn, ... Read more
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Taking place in a mostly rural region of Québec known as Bas-Saint-Laurent, The Strange Scent of Saffron by Miléna Babin, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei (Guernica Editions) juxtaposes life in a small town setting with the vibrancy of India and the world of illegal saffron ... Read more
During the week of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival we're spotlighting a different graphic novelist every day. Today we chat with Halifax-based artist Veronica Post whose semi-autobiographical debut Langosh and Peppi, Fugitive Days (Conundrum Press) tells the story of the ... Read more
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