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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Bruce Whiteman

Bruce Whiteman recently edited Best Canadian Essays 2021.

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Bruce Whiteman

She Liked Short Lines

The lyrical voices of Carol Shields March 2022
For her 1987 novel, Swann: A Mystery, which was reissued as simply Swann and as Mary Swann in foreign markets, Carol Shields composed several poems as representative works of her protagonist. Mary Swann is a poet from the countryside around Kingston, Ontario, who is murdered by her husband, at…