Tag: short stories

photo: D. Martens

Homesickness

Homesickness, by Colin Barrett. Penguin Random House UK, 2022, 215 pages. Reviewed by Jane Christmas The word homesickness automatically conjures the usual definition of longing for home, but pull apart […]

Isabel Huggan

I first encountered Isabel Huggan at a writing week in Kingston, Ontario, and met her again some weeks later in Gigiri, Nairobi, whereupon this generous woman kindly invited me into […]

photo: D. Martens

Making Home

The song “Home on the Range” turns up in Isabel Huggan’s essay, “Someday You’ll Be Sorry” in her award-winning collection, Belonging. The song is mentioned as one of several that […]

Cooper

Catherine Cooper and Home

Catherine Cooper, The Western Home: Stories for Home on the Range, Pedlar Press: St John’s, 2014, paper.Catherine Cooper, White Elephant, Freehand Books: Calgary, 2016, paper.Reviewed by Debra Martens For this […]