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Sharp wit / sharp pencil

Belshaw 3. feature cover The Canada Handbook

“In BC, cartoonists like Len Norris, Roy Peterson, Bob Krieger, Dan Murphy, Raeside, and (more lately) Pia Guerra have demonstrated what a sharp wit can do with a sharp pencil. Nurtured for decades by daily spots on the local newspaper’s editorial/opinion page, these giants of jest created lasting and recognizable characters, styles, voices, values, and understandings of who we are.” John Belshaw reviews The Canada Handbook, by Adrian Raeside (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2025) $22.95 / 9781550179538

The ‘gut and the heart rule’

A poetry series—with an aim to “produce beautiful volumes and to alert readers to poems that remain vital to thinking about urgencies of the contemporary moment”—lives up to its ambitions with authoritative, revelatory essays and an impressive sampling of a poet’s “visceral,” “wry,” “potent,” “grim,” and intermittently comical poems. —Steven Ross Smith reviews Hunger: The Poetry of Susan Musgrave, selected with an introduction by Micheline Maylor (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025) $23.99 / 9781771126953

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