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New Art Books

Passion over Reason / la passion avant la raison

Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland

by Sarah Stanners

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E. J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island

by Robert Amos

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Landscape into Eco Art

Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s

by Mark Cheetham

“Landscape into Eco Art offers a much-needed art history of the Anthropocene. Landscape art is not merely a precursor to contemporary practices, ho …

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Alan Caswell Collier, Relief Stiff

An Artist’s Letters from Depression-Era British Columbia

edited by Peter Neary

"[Collier] was a skilled letter writer and his lively narrative is free of pretension. He attempted to record the toughness of the life in a way that …

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The Art and Passion of Guido Nincheri

by Mélanie Grondin

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On the Blog

The Chat: 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize Roundtable

By Trevor Corkum

In honour of all things Griffin, this week’s Chat is a conversation with the three 2018 Canadian Griffin Prize finalists—Billy-Ray Belcourt, Aisha Sasha John, and Donato Mancinci—whose collections are challenging, provocative, and wholly original.

Your 2018 Guide to Summer Literary Festivals

By Kerry Clare

Find out what's happening near you!

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Plants and Soil

By Kerry Clare

Great books to support the Grade 3 Plants and Soil Science Unit.

Lost in the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold

By Kerry Clare

So by all means, Canadian authors: venture into the woods! There's still so much more there to be discovered.

Andrea Curtis: The Weight of Water

By Kerry Clare

A fantastic list of books in which water features as a defining force, by the author of new novel Big Water.

The Chat with Claire Tacon

By Trevor Corkum

What happens when a young woman with Williams syndrome, her doting father, and her father’s teenaged co-worker head to Chicago in search of a piece of amusement park history? That’s the premise of …

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