Forthcoming
Shepherd in Residence, by Elizabeth Creith
Life may be a highway for Tom Cochrane, but for Elizabeth Creith it's a rural road – down which she is probably chasing some escaped sheep. When she picked up an abandoned drop spindle in a house in Toronto, she had no idea where it would lead her. That "where" turned out to be a quarter-section of bush in the Canadian Shield, with dogs, cats, rabbits, goats and – oh, yes – sheep. Through the fencing, the lambing, the shearing and the inevitable little trip to the butcher, Elizabeth recounts, with love and humour, her life as a shepherd in the wilds of Northern Ontario. A listener and staff favourite in her post as “Shepherd in Residence” on CBC Radio’s Richardson’s Roundup, Elizabeth Creith has collected the letters she wrote for the show, and added many wonderful new ones.
Fancy Clapping, by Mark D. Dunn
The poems in Fancy Clapping come from the rhythms that pulse below the noise of our lives. Under the drone of traffic and empty talk, between the clanging echo of memory and the desperate roar of the moment, rings a stillness, a sound that is no sound. Comic and lyrical, the poems recognize what is hidden beneath distraction, the silence we cover with all that fancy clapping.
Manhattan, Manitoulin, by Bonnie Kogos
At the end of a tour in the Caribbean, successful, single New York travel agent Lily Gardner is at the peak of her career when she meets a man who owns a boat and lives on an island ... in Canada. Lily follows Will north, trading in her hot tropical islands for the cold island of Manitoulin. A summer visit becomes an engagement as Lily falls in love despite the distance between Manhattan and Manitoulin. She begins to put down roots, reinventing herself in new life far from the streets of New York. Winter arrives, however, and tests Lily’s love and her ambitions. Lily has to confront her assumptions and her desires to survive loss, betrayal, and the challenges of growth. It is only by coming to understand herself that Lily realizes where her heart truly lies.
The Touch of a Moth, the 35th Annual Haiku Canada Members' Anthology, edited by Claudia Coutu Radmore and Marco Fraticelli
The Touch of a Moth is an excellent cross section of the haiku currently being produced outside Japan. It contains work by current members of Haiku Canada, experienced poets as well as new voices, Canadian and International, and by poets who have passed away, but who have given so much towards the development of haiku in Canada.