Best Canadian Essays, 2009, The

edited by Carmine Starnino & Alex Boyd

0 ratings

comments: 0

reviews: 0

tagged:

add a tag

essays

list price: $18.95

edition:Paperback

category: Literary Collections

published: 2009

ISBN:9781926639055

publisher: Tightrope Books

Description

The Best Canadian Essays 2009 features fourteen essays selected from various Canadian magazines. Anita Lahey on the last days of a Montreal convent, Alison Lee on the new face of porn, Nathan Whitlock on fiction in Canada, and Kamal Al-Solaylee on Canadian theatre are just a few of the cultural topics, while essays by Chris Wood, Lori Theresa Waller, and Chris Turner cover the hot topics of energy needs and the environment. Selected by Carmine Starnino and Alex Boyd, these essays demonstrate the outstanding quality of Canadian writing, as well as Canadian thinking.

close this panel

Best Canadian Essays, 2009, The

Write a review Community Reviews

Care to write a review? Sign Up or Sign In to contribute your voice.

close this panel

Buy this book at:

About the Authors

Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino is the author of three collections of poems: The New World (which was nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award), Credo (winner of the C A A Jack Chalmers Poetry Award), and With English Subtitles. His reviews and essays have appeared in a wide range of newspapers, magazines and literary journals, including the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, Matrix, Arc and The Montreal Review of Books. Starnino is the editor of Vehicule Press` Signal imprint, poetry editor at Canadian Notes and Queries, and editor-in-chief of Maisonneuve. Starnino lives in Montreal.

Author profile page >

Alex Boyd

Alex Boyd lives in Toronto. He writes poems, fiction, reviews, and essays, and has had work published in magazines and newspapers such as Taddle Creek, Books in Canada, the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, The Antigonish Review, and on websites such as The Danforth Review and Nthposition. He booked and hosted the I.V. Lounge Reading Series in Toronto for five years, and edits the online journal Northern Poetry Review. His personal site is alexboyd.com, and his first book of poems, Making Bones Walk, won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2008.

Author profile page >