“Project Bookmark Canada marks the places where the real and imagined landscapes meet by placing text from imagined stories and poems in the exact, physical locations where literary scenes take place.” Visit their site to search by book, location or author.
#1 ✔Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
#2 Terry Griggs’ Rogues’ Wedding
#3 ✔Bronwen Wallace’s “Mexican Sunsets” (Common Magic)
#4 Ken Babstock’s “Essentialist” (Airstream Land Yacht)
#5 ✔Elizabeth Hay’s Garbo Laughs
#6 ✔Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces
#7 ✔Jeff Latosik’s “Song for the Field Behind Mississauga Valley Public School” (Tiny, Frantic, Stronger)
#8 Sylvia Maultash Warsh’s The Queen of Unforgetting
#9 John Terpstra’s “Giants” (Two or Three Guitars)
#10 Sheree Lee-Olson’s Sailor Girl
#11 Al Pittman’s “The Sea Breeze Lounge” (Thirty-for-Sixty)
#12 ✔Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony
#13 ✔Carol Shields’ The Republic of Love
#14 ✔Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief
#15 Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood
#16 Rachel Preston’s The Fishers of Paradise
#17 Dennis Lee’s The Cat and the Wizard (Illus. Gillian Johnson)
#18 ✔Merilyn Simond’s The Convict Lover
#19 Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising
#20 Matthew Heiti’s The City Still Breathing
#21 L.M. Montgomery’s “The Gable Window”
#22 ✔Dionne Brand’s Love Enough
#23 Jean Little’s If I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor
#24 Michel Tremblay’s Le coeur découvert
#25 Karen X. Tulchinsky’s The Five Boks of Moses Lupinsky
#26 Milton Acorn’s “Knowing I Live in a Dark Age”
#27 Danny Schur and Rick Chafe’s Strike!
#28 Rosemary Griebel’s “Walking with Walt Whitman Through Calgary’s Eastside on a Winter Day”
#29 Gregory Scofield’s “The Sewing Circle”
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