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Used Toys

When Phyllis Webb writes in “Breaking” “what are we whole or beautiful or good for but to be absolutely broken,” for some this thought might seem a highly paradoxical but revelatory definition of t...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 09 / 24 / 2009
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Origin of the Spaces - M.A. Thesis

Dougald Lamont's M.A. Thesis in English Literature at the University of Manitoba, entitled "Origin of the Spaces: A Darwinian Poetics of Identity Transformation and the Long Prairie Poem"
  • Jetpackmedia published this 08 / 02 / 2009
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Rebecca Rosenblum ONCE (The Words)

Once [978-1-897231] $19.95 ISBN 978-1-897231-49-4 | Rebecca Rosenblum | Once | Stories | $19.95 "Who could imagine lives teeming with such whimsy and hope? Only Rebecca Rosenblum, I ventu...
  • biblioasis published this 04 / 22 / 2009
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Thought You Were Dead First Chapter

AVAILABLE MAY 1ST: The First Mystery in a projected series by Terry Griggs, introducing reluctant detective/ slacker / literary researcher Chellis (to be or not to) Beith Meet the Perfect Man… n...
  • biblioasis published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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TJ and the Quiz Kids by Hazel Hutchins (Orca Book Publishers)

First chapter of TJ and the Quiz Kids by Hazel Hutchins (Orca Book Publishers)
  • bibliobub published this 03 / 10 / 2009
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Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky (Orca Book Publishers)

First chapter of Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky (Orca Book Publishers)
  • bibliobub published this 03 / 10 / 2009
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Gotcha by Shelly Hrdlitschka (Orca Book Publishers)

First chapter of Gotcha by Shelly Hrdlitschka (Orca Book Publishers)
  • bibliobub published this 03 / 10 / 2009
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Feather Brain by Maureen Bush (Orca Book Publishers)

First chapter of Feather Brain by Maureen Bush (Orca Book Publishers)
  • bibliobub published this 03 / 10 / 2009
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Addison Addley and the Things That Aren't There by Melody DeFields McMillan (Orca Book Publishers)

First chapter of Addison Addley and the Things That Aren't There by Melody DeFields McMillan (Orca Book Publishers)
  • bibliobub published this 03 / 10 / 2009
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Tear Drop Shades

A short-to-mid-length suspense/tragedy story
  • doyouwantmore published this 11 / 30 / 2008
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The Other Crowd at A. M. Klein's "Political Meeting" (August 2003; Word)

— The Other Crowd — “Political Meeting” (A.M. Klein) By Patrick McEvoy-Halston August 2003 (Outside, in the dark, the street is body-tall, flowered with faces intent on the scarecrow thing that sho...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Poet as Physician

— Poet as Physician — Healing from a Wound and a Word in Daphne Marlatt’s “Healing” By Patrick McEvoy-Halston August 2002 Words are loaded with possibilities for those who well attend to them. We m...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Leaving Home (Nov. 2002; Word)

First paragraph: The speaker of Elizabeth Baryush’s “Children of wealth in your warn nursery” enters our “home[s]” to warn us. S/he tells us that we are prisoners, that our current home is a pr...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Introductions and Initiations

First paragraph: Phyllis Webb’s “To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide” is a deceptive poem. Rather than being a poem dedicated to those who have already considered suicide, it is, instea...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Freeing Al Purdy (August 2003; Word)

— Freeing Al Purdy — From Nationalist Cell to Postmodern Haven By Patrick McEvoy-Halston August 2003 Mark Silverberg, in “The Can(adi)onization of Al Purdy,” argues that Purdy was used by a “litera...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Critical Introduction: As For Me and My House

The assignment was to write your own New Canadian Library (or some such) intro to this "classic" work of Canadian literature. Prof liked it but thought it too sarcastic for an intro. First pa...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Break on Through to the Other Side?: The Reader's Encounter with Postmodernism (

First paragraph: When Phyllis Webb writes in “Breaking,” “what are we whole or beautiful or good for but to be absolutely broken,” for some this thought seems a highly paradoxical but revelatory...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump (Dec. 2005; Word)

Full title: "A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump: Attending to Basic Needs in Bertram Brooker's Think of the Earth." A Cdn writer no one has ever heard of. Fun paper--laughed while reading it to...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 04 / 2008
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Soothing Satire--Mending Our Way to Better

On Douglas Coupland's Generation X. Wrote this one in part to impress a girl (might it not also impress you?). Explores why Generation X is about narrating a world so that it seems stable, depen...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 02 / 2008
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Quitting Home in Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House (Jan. 2006; Word)

First paragraph: If we were to assemble a canon of Canadian texts based on their ability to help Canadians live better lives, we might do well to include Sinclair Ross’ As For Me and My House as...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 01 / 2008
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