Category Archives: Book Reviews
Poem of the Week: Ocean Ghazal by Alison Mcghee
Ocean Ghazal He came spiraling back up the stairs, all four flights, two at a time Dark coat flying, dark eyes searching, something more to tell her, that last time. At night by the ocean, salt spray and laughter and … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Roofmen by Patricia Fargnoli
Over my head the roofmen are banging shingles into place and over them the sky shines with a light that is almost past autumn, and bright as copper foil. In the end I will have something to show for their … Continue reading
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Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Book Review
Victoria-based writer Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and was the winner of the prestigious 2011 Giller Prize. This is a book that makes me grateful for writers like Esi who bring to light … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: The Woman Who Shoveled the Sidewalk by Stanley Plumly
She clearly needed more than money, which, anyway, wasn’t much. Her dog, one of those outlawed fighting breeds, black-and-white and eyes too far apart, kept snapping at the leash, the cash I placed as simply as I could into her … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Then I Walked Through the World by Leah Goldberg
Then I walked through the world as though someone adored me. Laughter unfurled through heaps of stones, and a wind through fathomless skies. Then I walked through the world as though someone dreamed me fair. Across the night abysses bloomed … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Little Horse by W.S. Merwin
You come from some other forest do you little horse think how long I have known these deep dead leaves without meeting you I belong to no one I would have wished for you if I had known how what … Continue reading
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Book Commentary: Solar by Ian McEwan
Hmnn, not really quite sure what to make of this book and I say this only because Ian McEwan is one of my favourite writers. I have loved everything I have ever read by him – Atonement, On Chesil Beach, A … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: Two Countries by Naomi Shihab Nye
Skin remembers how long the years grow when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel of singleness, feather lost from the tail of a bird, swirling onto a step, swept away by someone who never saw it was a feather. … Continue reading
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Book Review: Dispatches by Michael Herr
Wow, well my first book after not reading for a year is Michael Herr‘s Dispatches and what a book this is. Michael Herr was a Vietnam war correspondent for Esquire Magazine from 1967 to 1969 and the book is based … Continue reading
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