From British Columbia to Ghana
At the beginning of November [2012], I took my daughter to British Columbia to see big trees, mountains, and relatives. (Her priorities; mine were in reverse order.) Which got me […]
The Longer War
A Gradual Ruin by Robert Hilles (Doubleday 2004), reviewed by Debra Martens When the Second World War ended in 1945, serving soldiers got to go home and live happily ever […]
Jack Wang on the Chinese Diaspora
Mark Sampson interviews Jack Wang
Poems for a Summer’s Day
Each season, Canadian Writers Abroad likes to feature a poet. Today we have two prose poems from Robert Hilles, who with his wife Rain, divides his time between Nanaimo, BC […]
Kim Echlin
Kim Echlin’s novel, Speak Silence, draws on the testimonies of the Muslim women of Foča.
Mary Lawson’s Solace
Review of A Town Called Solace, Alfred A. Knopf Canada (a division of Penguin Random House Canada) 2021, hardcover, 288 pages.Reviewed by Debra Martens. Crow Lake has its ponds, Road […]
The Alexis Puzzle
My initial reaction to The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction (Penguin Random House Canada 2020), the most recent book by André Alexis, was this: imagine that you are having the […]
Jessica Lee’s Two Trees
Tim Martin reviews Two Trees Make a Forest
Parsing a Tombstone
Barbara Sibbald on her mysterious discovery.
Mythologizing Magdalena
Nick Coghlan reviews Magdalena — River of Dreams by Wade Davis
To Magdalena
“To the north [of the mouth of the Río Magdalena], beyond a sea of golden clouds, the Caribbean sky fades to lapis blue in the falling light. To the west, […]
For Forest Green
“Art loved being a high rigger . . . . He loved being up in the trees, high above everyone and everything. Once he reached the top he’d settle back […]
Work
September, the season of beginnings, new notebooks, renewed energy for work, and for some, the new year. If you are still Covid working from home, the satirical poems below might […]
Finding the Perfect Home
What makes a house a home? Review of Open House by Jane Christmas.
Crowning the Virus: New Skills for the Pandemic
Jane Christmas made the switch from journalism to books while still in Canada, and has continued to write from her home abroad, which has been in the suburbs of Bristol […]
Back Again
Last week Canadian Writers Abroad reported on writers who opted to stay put. This week we hear from those whose plans were interrupted by COVID-19. D. W. Wilson had plans […]
Where Are They Now?
Back in March when Canadian travellers were urged to come home, I thought of the small community of Canadian writers living abroad. Would they stay or go? As Antony Millen […]
Gathering Places
Photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo and author Mark Frutkin have collaborated on a book that is a reminder of what Italians must miss during the Coronavirus shut-down of public places: Where Angels […]
Palestinian Literature
The drones placed an explosive device on the roof of the house, hovered upwards, to about four metres above, and paused with their robot arms dangling like wet, dead spider […]
Raining Books
Dawn Doig (nee Young), author of children’s books, currently lives in Cameroon. Hailing from Victoria, BC, her life abroad began in 1997, when she went as an audiologist to Vietnam […]
Allan Jones Ascends his Cliff
Sonia Tilson reviews Beyond Vision by Allan Jones (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018, 311 pages, hardcover). In this extraordinary autobiography, Beyond Vision (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2018), Allan Jones describes how he […]
From Fredericton to Berlin
Her Heart Still Beats in New Brunswick: Interview with Carolyn Gammon by Gabriella Goliger Carolyn Gammon’s writing career and life journey defy categorization. Her author portfolio includes steamy lesbian poetry […]
Travel and Loss
Fault Line Once in Iceland I stretched my arms between the continental divide Bumpy black igneous rock tangible crevice Going home Coming home always in between My heart a fault-line […]
Homecoming
It’s been one month since the “abroad” part of my life was left behind when we returned to Canada from Jerusalem. A busy month, a discombobulating month. “Are you happy […]
Sutherland’s Beasts
Since its beginning eight years ago, Canadian Writers Abroad has stepped away from the “abroad” to publish Canadian poetry, to mark the solstice or the equinox. This June, CWA presents […]
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