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Fred Wah: A portrait in his own words (and a few others')
Swift Current :: Canada | 5 months ago
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Story Fred Wah in screen grab from video Multimedia Our current Parliamentary Poet Laureate (PPL), Fred Wah, knows his way around words, worlds, bits, bytes and webs; but, make no mistake, God he ain't...Here's the story: When Talon Books's Karl and
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Globe writers on Taylor Prize long list
Montreal :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Books by two Globe and Mail reporters are among the 15 titles selected in the first round of competition for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction, worth $25,000 for the ultimate winner. Sandra Martin's Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives That
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George Bowering's memoir playful, questioning – and R-rated
Toronto :: Canada | 7 months ago
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His developing sexuality may be the best and the worst of it, but it's not all of it. The air around Oliver, in the interior of British Columbia, is above body temperature all summer, and hot as hell in September in the rubber-lined pits of the local
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B.C. author Brian Brett gets Lieutenant-Governor's prize
Vancouver :: Canada | 1 year ago
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B.C. author Brian Brett was named the recipient of the Lieutenant-governor's Award for Literary Excellence Tuesday evening at the B.C. Book Prizes Soiree. "Brian Brett is the kind of man the 21st century needs," jury member George Bowering said in a
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I saw Bowering post on Tweet Street
Vancouver :: Canada | 1 year ago
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From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2012 8:16PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2012 8:32PM EDT George Bowering has written more books than some people have read. The 76-year-old scribbler has about 100 titles to his credit,
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Efforts to save poet Al Purdy’s Ontario home stall
Vancouver :: Canada | 1 year ago
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Made of salvaged lumber in 1957, the house that beloved Canadian poet Al Purdy built sits on the bank of a rural Ontario lake, its future as insecure as its rickety footings. For more than 40 years Purdy and his wife Eurithe welcomed writers, both
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Here's Nancy McKenzie. our George Bowering Baseball Trivia Quiz gal
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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However, firstly, secondly and marginally more importantly? Today, this very day, happens to happily and coinkydinkally coincide with Dr. Stompin' Tom Connors's B-Day (b...Ha-Ha-Happy B-Day 2 Wee We Oui :)!!1! §¦::¦§ On that sky-high note?
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Presenting . . . The George Bowering Baseball Trivia Quiz
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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With Spring Training looming on the horizon next month (and keeping we baseballomaniacs barely alive), we at In Other Words feel particularly generous; thus, to aid us in our generosity, Canada's premier sporty poet , none other than our inaugural
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N-Joie! An exclusive winter's poem from our west coast
Vancouver :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Mr. Sunshine, one of our two wacky, weird and wonderful west-coast correspondents [*waves to Jean Baird*], sends along a wee (but not twee) poem for our gratuitous reading enjoyment since, as everybody knows, Vancouver doesn't "get" winter and even
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If it's Thursday, It's IOW Verse Day VII
Windsor :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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EDT The rats These small pacific islands were once haven for sea birds brooding in sheltering crevices on nests warm with eggs and chirping nestlings till the humans arrived with the rats the islands are barren now the nests hold only scattered
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