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When this atmosphere upon your approach at last is flame, and you refuse the step further Coming, to yourself, the city in pieces: government unstable What will you do, close to those whose speech is … more →
Dean J. Baker - Poetry, prose, lyrics, prose poems
Knotting-Off the Aughts #2: Christian Bök's Eunoia
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voxpopulism wrote 20 hours ago: Year: 2001 Place of Creation: Toronto Press: Coach House (Toronto) Mode of Acquisition: Purchased, f … more →
Knotting-Off the Aughts #3: Karen Solie’s Modern and Normal
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voxpopulism wrote 3 days ago: Year: 2005 Place of Creation: Saskatchewan et. al. Press: Brick (London, ON) Mode of Acquisition: I’ … more →
Tributary
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deanjbaker wrote 6 days ago: When this atmosphere upon your approach at last is flame, and you refuse the step further Coming, to … more →
Knotting-Off the Aughts #4: Mary Dalton's Merrybegot
voxpopulism wrote 1 week ago: Year: 2003 Place of Creation: Pan-Newfoundland Press: Vehicule/Signal (Montreal) Mode of Acquisition … more →
Twenty-Four Pages of Pure Entertainment
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voxpopulism wrote 1 week ago: I feel weird pimping my own stuff in this space, but a good man once told me that all uninvited advi … more →
Keep In Touch
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deanjbaker wrote 1 week ago: ‘Keep in touch!’ How often do you hear those words from people? If you’re like me, and fortunately n … more →
Cage Match
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voxpopulism wrote 1 week ago: You should all take 99 minutes out of your workday sometime this week and watch the entirety of this … more →
The Blue Castle
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Schatzi wrote 1 week ago: The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery originally published 1926 Bant … more →
Canada Reads - Getting Hipper, or am I Just Getting Older?
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J wrote 2 weeks ago: It seems the book world has been a bit stressed out lately- with the Kindle sweeping the nation off … more →
The Stupids
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: My mind’s a thread unwinding; I pluck at darkness, which falls. It won’t let the stupids out; it suf … more →
At These Crossroads
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: Who knows how many letters I could write you, and Never send: the totality of truth Cannot be approa … more →
Five CanPo Titles: Ross Leckie's Gravity's Plumb Line
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Stephen Rowe wrote 3 weeks ago: Gravity’s Plumb Line by Ross Leckie Year: 2005 Publisher: Gaspereau Press Province: Nova Scoti … more →
Catalyst
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: I want the radio to speak, when music cannot listen; the heart keeping time, nobody knows who may be … more →
Close Call
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deanjbaker wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m such a stumbling, mumbling clown, where the sure, deft touch of gentleness requires an artist; t … more →
Know your Audience (When Your Audience is Yourself)
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voxpopulism wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m staying in tonight, though it is Friday and I am twenty-six years old, because I have to get up … more →
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
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Lisa Hill wrote 3 weeks ago: Last week I went to a conference at the NGV and saw a piece of sculpture by a noted American artist. … more →
I keep trying to tell a story for which there is still no language.
alfreddepew wrote 3 weeks ago: Not Parisian French, not the Queen’s English, not my beloved joual. And yet we sat at the tables to … more →
Novembre. La saison de la morte.
alfreddepew wrote 3 weeks ago: Novembre. La saison de la morte, avant de la neige, as Theo called it. The trees along Rene Levesque … more →
My Mi'kmaq Mother Launches November 19
mimrlith wrote 4 weeks ago: My Mi’kmaq Mother is a flavourful account of a young Mi’kmaq girl’s life without her Mi’kmaq m … more →
