Congratulations, Karen Solie!
Huge Congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2010 Griffin! I’ve been waiting for Karen to win this since she was nominated for her first book, Short Haul Engine, back when we used to share…
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More snapshots
The chest I was re-organizing over the past weekend yielded more treasures, surprises, and memories than the photos of my mother I posted the other day. Even going back 18 years, as in the photo…
View PostOlympic viewing . . .
Years ago, looking on-line for some background on Dionne Brand in preparation for teaching one or other of her poems, I found this little gem: #30, it’s apparently titled, from her Winter Epigrams. I adopted…
View PostFinishing the Year: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Patricia Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor
Oh dear! Once again, I am woefully behind in recording my reading. At the moment, I’m reading Penelope Lively’s The Family Album, having finished Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood as my first 2010…
View PostRemembering P.K. Page — An Inspiring Life
Canada has lost a national treasure, a literary grand dame, as CBC terms her (sadly leaving out her considerable achievements as a visual artist, a painter — an omission rectified in this later CBC report…
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