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Alison Dyer

Alison Dyer

Alison Dyer's poetry collection I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game is a finalist for the JM Abraham Poetry Award.

Poetry, Reviews, Web exclusives April 16, 2018 April 16, 2018

Robert Burt’s Poetic Blend of Pastoral and Romantic

The poet weaves themes of love and loss, wandering and discovery

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In our spring issue Karin Cope considers a stunning array of poetry collections (from Pottersfield Press, Goose Lane Editions, Pedlar Press, Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers, Palimpsest Press, The Acorn Press and others), as well as books of prose considering poetry or with a poetic sensibility. It would boggle a lesser essayist's mind, but Karin dives in with gusto and concludes, "What characterizes contemporary poetics at the margins of the Atlantic isn’t any particular theme, style or approach, so much as a wakeful attention to thinking and making at the edges of perceptibility and possibility."

You'll have to check out the issue to see how she gets there (hint: it involved some time on the high seas, desperately seeking internet connectivity.)

You'll find our spring issue starting the last week of April at LaHave River Books, Halifax Public Libraries, NL Public Libraries, Westminster Books, Tidewater Books, Woozles, Bookmark II, Bookmark, Atlantic News, King's Co-op Bookstore, Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, and other fine libraries and bookstores throughout the region.

Pictured: "The Language of Clouds" pottery by Gerry Frager, from Signs of Life. ...

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Whether it’s through promoting online collections, making e-books more accessible, or creative displays highlighting authors and collections, libraries play a crucial role in connecting local writers and readers. Check out our spring issue for Philip Moscovitch's news feature on the ways Nova Scotia libraries promote local writers and improve the viability of publishing in the region.

You can find it, appropriately enough, at your local library the last week of April. Also available at fine bookstores across the region and in local newspapers May 5.

[Pictured: The People's Place: Antigonish Town and County Library, a lovely magazine reading nook below work by the great Alan Syliboy, who is also featured in this issue.]

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Check out the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards Festival Lineup! - Atlantic Book Awards

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This year’s events, a mix of authors in conversation, readings and book signings, will take place in a variety of venues, from bookstores and libraries to breweries and cultural institutions like the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Events take place from St. John’s to Liverpool. Nominated autho...
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Sports and Pastimes (Bookhug), Jean-Philippe Guérard's second novel (translated by Newfoundland's Aimee Wall) takes shots at the highest envelope of middle-class excess using elite Canadian show business as his proxy.

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Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s Sports and Pastimes: Boredom and Excess Are the Preeminent Disposition of the 21st Century’s First Adults – Atlantic Books Today

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“I refresh, I refresh, I refresh.” The new English translation of Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s Sports and Pastimes (translated by Newfoundland’s Aimee Wall) contemplates boredom and excess as the preeminent disposition of the 21st Century’s first adult generation. On the path dissecting ...
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“Just think what the neighbours thought when they looked out and saw a garbage truck drive up and unload the furniture.”

In our spring issue, Evelyn White's erudite essay considers Ingrid Waldron’s There’s Something in the Water (Fernwood Publishing) and Ted Rutland’s Displacing Blackness (University of Toronto Press), as well as The Spirit of Africville (Africville Genealogy Society and Formac Publishing) to illuminate a disturbing history of shaping our cities and towns through a racist lens, and the damage done to families and communities.

Check it out the last week of April at Atlantic News, Bookmark II, Bookmark, Halifax Public Libraries, King's Co-op Bookstore, LaHave River Books and many other fine bookstores, libraries and coffee shops; and then in newspapers May 5. ...

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