We don’t review books by Biblioasis, or by CNQ personnel here. There are times I have regretted taking this stance, but the danger of the journal becoming merely another house organ would be too great if we did so. But that doesn’t mean we can’t plug the occasional title.
Yesterday I received The Essential [...]
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Daniel WellsHugh Hood’s Odyssey (in Brief)
Daniel WellsMany who follow Biblioasis and CNQ know that we started as used booksellers, and still maintain an online and by appointment shop. we’ve only managed to catalogue a little over 7000 items over the last few years, of more than 30,000 currently in stock. A lot of our stock, whether catalogued or no, would be [...]
Giller Prize Jury Announced
Daniel WellsMichael Enright, Claire Messud and Ali Smith will judge the 2010 Giller Prize.
It’s an interesting selection. Michael Enright is one of my favourite CBC radio personalities, one of the last and best of the old guard. I was just thinking about him this morning as one of only a handful of CBC radio personalities I [...]
Let the Games Begin: Alex Good and Steven Beattie on Canada Reads
Daniel WellsThe best part of Canada Reads for the last couple of years has not been the program itself, or (with one or two notable exceptions) the books themselves: rather, it has been the day-by-day commentary by CNQ editor Alex Good and regular contributor Steven Beattie over at the Shakespearean Rag. This year’s Canada Reads list [...]
On Reviewing: Steven Beattie
Daniel WellsRegular CNQ contributor has an interview up on Sina Queyras’s blog, Lemon Hound, part of a series of interviews the poet has been doing on different approaches to reviewing over the last couple of months. Below is her first question, and Steven’s answer.
LH: What do you think the purpose of a review is? If you [...]
the ink stained wretch: Eric Ormsby on Literary Criticism
Daniel WellsThe new issue of The New Quarterly arrived yesterday and among its many pleasures — new work from Heather Birrell, Zsuzi Gartner, Caroline Adderson and James Pollock — was what may be one of the best essays on reviewing I’ve read in recent memory. Eric Ormsby’s ‘Fine Incisions: Reflections on Reviewing’ gets to the heart [...]
CNQ 78
Daniel WellsCNQ 78 hits the printer today, and should be back in the next two to three weeks. A special issue partially guest-edited by David Hickey on the work of P.E.I. poet John Smith, the following is the Table of Contents:
NEVER MIND THE STREETS OF PARIS:
An Introduction to John Smith
David Hickey
SMITH: A SELECTIVE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
David Helwig
MUTUAL [...]
New Content Added
Daniel WellsWe added new content to the website today. In fiction, Ray Smith’s Serenissima, a story we published in The Salon des Refuses issue. From his novel Century, it works as a short story as well. Kerry Clare has recently reviewed Century as part of her Canada Reads Independently series. To read her thoughts on this [...]
A Brief Word from our Sponsor…
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CNQ 78 is within a week of finding its way to the printer, and less than a month from finding its way to mailboxes across the country. At the moment I am aghast to report that yours is not one of them. So I thought it best to take a couple [...]