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God of Poetry

Apollo was about more than going to the moon

Robert Smith

Plate Appearances

José Bautista and the Temple of Dome

J.D.M. Stewart

Back to Bases

A mound to die on

Charles Gordon
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Mark Anthony Jarman

Mark Anthony Jarman plays harmonica for a blues band in Fredericton where he teaches at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent book is My While Planet (Thomas Allen, 2008).

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Mark Anthony Jarman

The Yank's Progress

A vibrant tale follows the journey of a U.S. artist from New York to Newfoundland. December 2004

Crammed with Crime

Narrow straits and human traits on one street in St. John’s September 2010
The Glass Harmonica is set in Newfoundland, but it is not necessarily a Newfoundland book. Russell Wangersky focuses on one street in St. John’s, rather than taking on the whole East Coast cosmology. A narrow focus, but The Glass Harmonica is a wonderful work, a large work, lyrical at times (children “can feel the currents in a room the way eagles find…