Category: Stop! Look! Listen!

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The cover of The Old Man and The Sea which features an old man in a red boat with a white wave cresting over him in the shape of a fish's tail against a red sky.

Stop! Look! Listen! Kevin Andrew Heslop's Reading Recommendation

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—Which, pugnacious drunkard, of course. And happened to write a fable of—First, let’s recall the plot: man catches fish sharks eat. Second—I’m already bored of—The endeavour for its own sake—a touchstone—rebuking critics as he the writer the sun of whose legend was also setting already.  And then of course there is the matter of style. 
An album cover for a collection of five Joan Armatraging albums

Stop! Look! Listen! Mary Trafford’s Listening Recommendation

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I believe in love at first sight. After all, I fell in love with my partner the second I saw her, and we’ve been together for almost four decades. I also believe in love at first listen. That’s how I felt about Joan Armatrading the first time I heard her magical blend of singing and songwriting, way back in the mid-1970s – pure, blissful love. 

The album cover for Lori Yates' "Matador"

Stop! Look! Listen! Margaret Watson's Listening Recommendation

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If you haven’t discovered Matador yet, then it’s time. Lori Yates is an artist (singer and songwriter) who hales from Oshawa-Toronto-Nashville-Hamilton and recently Toronto again. According to her website, she is a “pioneer of Alternative-Country.” And Matador, her much-anticipated new release, is replete with songs reflecting on a life of experiences -- love, friendship, struggle, survival and mortality. 

Stop! Look! Listen! Jane C. Miller's Listening Recommendation

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I am drawn to music with lyrics in languages I don’t understand, which allows me to hear, unmediated by meaning, the emotional synthesis and counterpoint of sound. Two of my favorites are Trio Mediaeval from Norway, and Mariza from Portugal. Isn’t our work as writers similar? We choose our words, not just for meaning, but for what their sounds make us feel. 

 

 

 

Stop! Look! Listen! Yolande House's Reading Recommendation

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Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller is a great example of a hybrid memoir. There are photos, poems, flash prose, cultural criticism, and a Kafka-esque surrealist short story interspersed throughout the book. An earlier and slightly different version of the manuscript was first published in German in 2020. 

Stop! Look! Listen! Madeleine van Goudoever's Reading Recommendation

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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I moved to Kelowna three years ago. I was coming from the rainforest. The Okanagan landscape seemed parched and barren. I was suspicious of the constant sunshine. I mourned the loss of my velvet forests full of ancient red cedars and Douglas firs, and set about trying to find a way to love this new land.  

Stop! Look! Listen! Jocelyn Anderson's Listening Recommendation

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Anjimile’s Giver Taker would do well to be filed under: a sovereign sibling to tUnE-yArDs and Sufjan; songs that make you feel possible; songs that make queerness feel possible; what I wish I had at-hand when I was coming out; the embodied voice of a late August day when the space between ending and beginning is dead-leaf-thin; for fans of a heart-breaking track one and a foot-shuffling track two; an ode and a promise, in track four’s 1978, to a lover, a god, or oneself; an album closer that gently lifts away towards bluer skies; forgiveness music; survival music;  hollering h

A photo of Robert Gibbs sitting in a chair which was taken in Robert’s backyard where he loved to sit and gain inspiration for his writing.
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