The Shuswap country in British Columbia is a unique place. Among the houseboats, costly beachfront condos, fruit stands and highway attractions are old, humidity-warped country homes tucked in [...]
Picture a beekeeper. What image forms in your head? What gender? What cultural background? What uniform? What tools? What demeanour? With Revery: A Year of Bees, poet, professor, organic farmer [...]
Poised on the side of Tunnel Mountain with fabulous views up the Bow Valley, the Banff Centre is not only spectacularly located but is also one of Alberta’s most internationally recognizable [...]
In 1773 Phillis Wheatley, a Black woman who had been enslaved in Africa and taken to America, published a volume of poetry, barely out of her teens. She was the first Black person in the US (and [...]
The book launch for the 2020 annual Frontenac House Poetry Quartet, which the publisher is calling its “COVID quartet,” was understandably virtual. So, in honour of the wine and cheese [...]
