In May, Joe Fiorito was the recipient of the 2021 Kouhi Award which recognizes a writer who has contributed significantly to the literature of Northwestern Ontario. JOE'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH I...
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Rahat Kurd introducing Kateri Lanthier at the The Rhizomatic reading series, Thursday, October 15 > I’d like to highlight the personally curated nature of The > Rhizomatic—th...
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> > SCHISM > > For David Rothberg > > Ice by chance, by fate or divine grace, > Ice as a prayer answered or seasonal necessity… We approve. > But ice by an...
Matthew Schneier mulls the importance of reciting poetry: > I have always found the place for the genuine in poetry to be > unlocked not by just reading it but by memorizi...
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In an online interview for the Librissimi Toronto Italian Book Festival, Nino Ricci touches on how immigration can shape identity. > Part of what I was exploring in Lives of the ...
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Graeme Wood enumerates the sins of the open letter. My favourite? They are badly written. > Open letters tend to be composed inclusively, so as many people as > possible will...
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In a review of Lydia Davis' Essays, James Ley places the U.S. writer's rise inside a period when "hyper-ambitious male novelists" were trapped "in a creative arms race to see who could writ...
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French world champion cyclist Alfred Letourneur pulling an Airstream Liner trailer on a runway at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport, 1947 FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS, ROSALIND PEPALL HELPED PLA...
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By Richard Sanger The fashion for beaver hats in 17th century London and Paris was what first led our settler ancestors to explore Canada and establish trading posts on our lakes and rivers...
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Hafez is one of Persia's most influential poets. Too bad many of the quotes and poems attributed to him in English are bogus. Omar Safi, director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, tells t...
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Aphorisms, argues Andrew Hui, not only predate Western philosophy, but "constitute the first efforts at speculative thinking." Thinking aphoristically, he says, remains a foundational part...
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While putting together a Black Lives Matter syllabus to celebrate the contribution of Black writers in Montreal, Robyn Maynard looks closely at the city's failure to confront it's own histor...
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Here's a short chapter from Éric Plamondon’s Apple S , translated from the French by Dimitri Nasrallah. Originally appearing in 2013, the novel completes Véhicule Press' publication of t...
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John Domini does his best to reverse the reputational damage that John Barth, once a towering figure in postmodern American writing, has suffered: > For the better part of 40 years...
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Sensing a "deep affinity" between stories by Chekhov and Dickens prompts Tim Park to wonder if there's another way we might classify novels, leading him to a category he dubs "The Belongers"...
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One of Canada's top book designers, David Drummond has been helping our poetry and fiction stand out for two decades. We asked him to walk us through his process in designing the cover for Swall...
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Blurbs, argues Jason Guriel, are "a species of micro-criticism worthy of our scrutiny." One indicator of their quality, he says, is proportion: > It’s not promising when a book’s�...
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An extended period immersed in Alice Munro's stories transformed Montreal writer Kasia van Schaik: > One summer, while visiting my hometown, a small mountain-locked > settlement ...
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Olivia Gatwood explains her abiding fascination for a poet she describes as "a woman willing to laugh at those who sought to tame her, as much as she was willing to scream." > Edna St. ...
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Alexander Larman asks why it's such a struggle for reviewers to say what they think about a book. It doesn't help, he says, that editors basically have two choices when it comes to handing ...
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On September 2020, Véhicule Press will be publishing Swallowed , a new authoritative translation of L’avalée des avalés, the late Réjean Ducharme’s 20th century masterpiece. Originall...
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In a 2018 interview, Jericho Brown expresses concern that poets are prioritizing their political message rather using the form to surprise themselves: > No matter the race of the poe...
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Dracula is one of the great monster stories to come out of the 19th century. Olivia Rutigliano thinks Bram Stoker's classic makes a great deal more sense if we think of it as a detective nov...
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A new website promises to be an archive for Canadian writing about the Vietnam war, much of which has never been republished since the conflict. Robert McGill, who developed the site, ex...
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As we continue to wait out the pandemic, we asked a number of Signal poets for any interesting books they'd been reading during the lockdown. Here's a roundup of what came back. James Arthur...
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