River of Diamonds w/Stewart Legere Saturday, April 20, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, $15 In the middle of an otherwise steady conversation about their music, Michael Belyea and Michelle Elrick find themselves at a loss for words. Discussing their shares appreciation for the natural world, Belyea remembers last week’s ubiquitous unveiling of […]
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Deeply homesick for a woman’s voice
The first time Sue Goyette read The Odyssey was in high school. She liked the logic of the myth and how things could be solved creatively in unexpected ways. Then, after experiencing her own personal epic, she returned to the poem, curious about its scope and things had shifted. “I was hungry for another narrative,” […]
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Nova Scotia native Skibsrud wins Giller, 50-Gs
Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize, and its fifty-grand purse, for her novel The Sentimentalists, which was published by Gaspereau Press. The 30-year-old—-the youngest ever to receive the literary award—-grew up in Pictou County, specifically Scotsburn in Pictou County, home to one of the province’s major dairies. Based in Montreal, Skibsrud until this point has been known as a poet. Her book of poetry, I Do Not Think That I Could Love A Human Being, came out on Gaspereau’s spring list this year. (Read about it on the publisher’s site: http://www.gaspereau.com/1554470854.shtml) Skibsrud’s debut novel, The Sentimentalists, accompanies the daughter
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Lean-To
Home is provisional, as Gunvaldsen Klaassen shows in her third collection. We’re all making do with what we’ve got and rigging up what’s on hand, only to tear it all down and start over. The poet and her family rove to and from campsites, hospital sites and construction sites. Each place generates a kind of […]
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Gaspereau Press reduces staff and books published
One of the most unique publishers in Canada, and a local treasure, Gaspereau Press, announced today that they’re reducing staff and the number of books planned for their upcoming season. Gaspereau treats each book like a art piece, or an object, with letter-pressed covers, smyth-sewn and bound. I can’t imagine it’s a lucrative business, but […]