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Jones's preference for selecting elder statesmen and women generally omits a broad range of voices that have helped push Canadian poetry out of the confines of its colonial past.
The Newfoundland of Vigil is an unforgiving place, and Taylor treats it, along with her cast of characters, without an ounce of sentimentality.
Owen is a lyric poet who delights in working within traditional forms.
The subtextual question in each of these stories – Where, exactly, does the true horror reside? – is a provocative and pressing one.
Giller will operate with a three-person jury for the first time since 2014.
Dismantling systems of arts funding in a capitalist society is notoriously difficult.
The signatories are calling for the Giller to lobby Scotiabank to fully divest from Elbit Systems and for the prize to sever ties with the Azrieli Foundation, Indigo, and Audible.
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.
Both volumes contain references to the Hebrew word "hineni," translated as "here I am."
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.