Stop! Look! Listen! Eva Hass’ Reading Recommendation
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“Tell me, what is there left to become?” Farah Ghafoor asks in her debut poetry collection, Shadow Price
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Stop! Look! Listen! Sonja Boon's Reading Recomendation
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One of my favourite childhood books turns 100 this year! Fortunately, I own three copies so I can celebrate in style. I acquired my first copy of L.M.
Stop! Look! Listen! Christina Wells’ Reading Recommendation
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The offerings in this collection are many. I recently read Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s, Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, which led me into a deep exploration not only of her immersive, finely crafted poetry but also of Pacific Island history, poetry, and art.
Stop! Look! Listen! S. E. Chapman’s Reading Recommendation
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For my birthday this year, I bought Michael Ondaatje’s A Year of Last Things.
Stop! Look! Listen! Jaime Sugiyama’s Reading and Listening Recommendations
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I am a slow reader and I am currently ambling through The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Stop! Look! Listen! Kimberly Foulger's Reading Recommendation
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Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea is my favourite esoteric fantasy, where stories are sacred, written on rose petals, and sentences leave you breathless.
Stop! Look! Listen! Susan Robertson’s Listening Recommendation
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As someone whose mother always made her bring a valentine for every child in the class, how can I choose just one book from among my recent reads?
Stop! Look! Listen! John McNeil's Reading Recommendation
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In the acknowledgements section of Tolu Oloruntoba’s celebrated collection, The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), he thanks American poet Kimiko Hahn for two profound words of advice: “risk clarity.” He says (rather modestly) that he knows he
Stop! Look! Listen Erin Wilson’s Reading Recommendation
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I have to be careful as a reader of poetry to allow enough room for the diversity of voices and approaches. For instance, very early on I was struck, convinced, intoxicated with Jack Gilbert's work.
Stop! Look! Listen! Emily Davidson’s Reading Recommendation
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During the second summer of the pandemic, I made my way from my apartment in Vancouver to my parents’ home in Saint John for an extended visit. I was thirty-six and burnt out: a high-intensity job, months of social isolation, the loss of a grandmother, and a year and a half on the other side of the country from family had taken their toll.
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