[ book excerpt: eco-poetics ]
“Grandmother Tree, Grandfather Tree,” an excerpt from Blue thinks itself within me: Lyric Poetry, Ecology, and Lichenous Form, by Kim Trainor (Regina: U Regina Press, 2026) $27.95 / 9781779401205
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[ book excerpt: memoir ]
“Little Brown Birds” and “Someone,” excerpts from Seventy-Two Seasons: A Memoir About Noticing, by M.A.C. Farrant (Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2026) $22.95 / 9781553807438
[ book excerpt: novel ]
An excerpt from Lindsay Wong’s Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2026) $27.95 / 9780735242418
[ book excerpt: short stories ]
Philip Holden’s “The Strange Machine of Dr Goh,” a story in Heaven Has Eyes (Singapore: Gaudy Boy, 2026), $19.00 / 9781958652220.
[ book excerpt: poetry ]
Evelyn Lau’s “Cursing, Flailing,” selected by Mary Dalton for inclusion in Best Canadian Poetry 2026 (Windsor: Biblioasis, 2025) $24.95 / 9781771966764
#15 Thruppence for your thoughts
First Published: April 27th, 2015 — compiled by K. Jane Watt In 1944, Sylvia Thrupp expressed her belief that knowledge of local history is “essential for any one who professes to have a realistic approach to the political problems of the day.” Consequently UBC historian Sylvia L. Thrupp penned an article [below] in which she…
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#12 BC Crime Stories: Rattlesnake Isl.
An extract from Dead Ends: BC Crime Stories (University of Regina Press $19.95) by Paul Willcocks First Published: February 17th, 2015 * They called him Crazy Eddie in the Okanagan Valley. Eddie Haymour complained constantly that powerful forces were conspiring against him, plotting to steal his land and his dreams, ruining his life. The provincial government, police, and…
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