My copy of Woman: Maiden Wife and Mother is inscribed as part of Mrs Effie Randall's collection, Port Edward Ontario, 1928. It's an oversized hardcover volume and has no publication date, but there is a small slip of paper used as a bookmark, a Quarterly Ticket for August 1890 for
"I like telling stories of women who act on their passions." "I like these strong female characters." "When I talk with readers I feel an enormous appetite in women to explore both their strength and their emotional connectedness, which still tend not to be honoured in the dominant culture."* Any
"If you think you understand what you see on the surface, caution Atwood's fathomless parentheticals, keep looking." So says Suzanne Buffam in her introduction to the new AList edition of this classic Canlit work. (And don't you love the word 'parentheticals'?) I'm not sure that I *do* understand
Please don't go. Not because it's poetry. Just watch this video. It's only a minute long. And know that I'm not a "poetry person". So that makes it more inviting, right? That you don't need a special gift to watch this? (Unless you are a "poetry person", in
With lead type and a hand press: that's how Gaspereau Press originally produced this collection of poems, in the old-fashioned way. Even the trade edition is the sort of book which makes you want to run your fingers across the page, not simply hold it by the edges, and, yet, simultaneously,
