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Sales Report

This unaffordable Vancouver

Parliamentary Discontent

Many MPs leave politics disillusioned—but what does that really mean for our democracy?

All Over the Map

In riding politics, the only common factor seems to be idiosyncrasy

Sonnet L’Abbé

Sonnet L’Abbé is a poet and professor. She is at work on a book called Sonnet’s Shakespeare, an erasure-by-crowding, in which she overwrites or “colonizes” all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets. She lives on Vancouver Island.

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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness. October 2016
“Sometimes I feel I spend my whole life rewriting the same page,” writes Anne Carson, in her new poetry collection, Float. “It is a page with ‘Essay on Translation’ at the top and … by the end there is not much left but a few flakes of language roaming near the margins.” Like the quick-witted but vulnerable kid who will joke at her own expense before you point out her…