In My World

  Happy release date to Your Devotee in Rags —a metamorphic sonic poetry LP created by cultural icons, Anne Waldman (The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment) and Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene), released by Siren Recordings. Your Devotee in Rags is a missive to this age of patriarchal power, its songs and poems are designed to specifically confront that power and hold it to account. Taking such activist inspiration from musicians like Lido Pimienta and Tanya Tagaaq, musically YDIR blends acoustic and electronic genres, waltzes, laments, and Pauls Boutique-era Beastie Boys mash-ups all with the intent of creating a new artistic headspace: sonic poetry. The cultural direction is forward, the earbuds open up the stereo field, listening to YDIR is, in a word, empowering.  Find out more about Your Devotee in Rags at  sirenrecordings.com .  @river_street_writes @sirenrecordings  #brokensocialscene #poetry #canlit #annewaldman #smashthepatriar...

Happy Publication to   Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada's North   by journalist Kathleen Lippa, published by Dundurn Press.   After years of research, Kathleen has written about the shocking crimes of trusted teacher, Ed Horne, who wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada’s Arctic. “Arctic Predator achieves profound insight into one of the most disturbing and dismaying series of events in Canadian Arctic history. This is a work of great scholarship and extraordinary depth.  It sets out and seeks to understand how terrible crimes were committed by one evil man against individual children, the communities where they lived, and how the damage has spread deep and wide. Kathleen Lippa has written a book that is of huge importance and, at the same time, as accessible as it is revelatory. It is compelling and anguished and humane. A book of real importance.” —Hugh Brody, author of Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/snuffy/28780895666 The Thames flows southwest for 273 kilometres through southwestern Ontario, from the Town of Tavistock through the cities of Woodstock, London and Chatham to Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair. Its drainage basin is 5,825 square kilometres. I've very familiar with this area. My husband comes from this part of the world and I have visited many times in our 44 years (s0 far) together. The river is known as Deshkaan-ziibi / Eshkani-ziibi ("Antler River") in the Ojibwe language, spoken by Anishnaabe peoples who, along with the Neutrals prior to their disappearance in the 17th century, have lived in the area since before Europeans arrived. This name was anglicized as Escunnisepe as the first English name of the river. In 1793, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe named the river after the River Thames in England. Early French Canadians referred to it as La Tranche, for the wide and muddy waters of its lower section.  Much of th...

  Happy publication to What Shade of Brown—the new  poetry collection by Nehiyawak-Metis writer, artist, historian John Brady McDonald, published with Radiant Press.  Passionate poetry and prose exploring the experience of an Indigenous person who feels like a stranger in a strange land, not quite accepted because of his light skin but also undermined by a settler-colonial society. Lyrical and heartfelt, bewildered and shaken, the poet struggles to find a connection to his family and lost culture. John Brady McDonald is a Nehiyawak-Metis writer, artist, historian, musician, playwright, actor and activist born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and the Mistawasis Nehiyawak. He is the author of several books, and his written works have been published and presented around the globe. He is also an acclaimed public speaker, who has presented in venues across the globe, such as the Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival, the Black ...

Happy publication to Anthony Bidulka’s Home Fires Burn and Alice Fitzpatrick’s A Dark Death , both published with Stonehouse Publishing.  About Home Fires Burn : From the author of Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel, Going to Beautiful , comes the final, standalone book of the Merry Bell trilogy. A celebrated philanthropist is found slumped against his car, frozen to death. Trans private investigator Merry Bell is hired by his son, country music star Evan Whatley, to find out the truth behind what really happened on that desolate stretch of road. As Merry’s investigation uncovers old wounds that never healed, her own are revealed as she confronts her pre-transition past and questions the boundaries of family and friendship. About A Dark Death :  Kate Galway is looking forward to a quiet summer working on her latest novel at her home on Meredith Island.  For a place hardly anyone has heard of, her sleepy Welsh island is attracting a lot of visitors, including a conm...

Sometimes I like to be alone. By the time Hal headed out last week I was ready for a break.  We'd gone on a fabulous 2-day letterboxing adventure, did a few chores around the house, hosted a meeting and dealt with all the minutia of everyday life.  We also had a couple of personal upsets.  We babysat lots of kids -- one grandson, a great niece and great nephew one day. That was the night Hal was supposed to be leaving for work so after supper he had to go to sleep.  This was one of the few occasions we let kids on our computers to play.  They were nice and quiet and Hal was able to sleep.  When my great-niece got bored we pulled out some glitter and paint and made cards. All that tip toeing around was for naught . . . dispatch had him in the system as a team driver instead of single so there were no loads. The next day we had two grandsons.  T wasn't feeling well and rested or napped most of the time.  BUT . . . Hal and Cam turned the entire...