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'Red Dog' is Truly a Poet's Novel

By Zoe Whittall

NOW Magazine | November 3, 2008

I love it when poets take on a sprawling narrative, plumping up sentences with images so striking you feel like taking out your highlighter.

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Tags: fiction, Canada, poets, Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog

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'Amphibian' is a Sweet and Smart Book for Optimists of Any Agenew

Nine-year-old Phineas Walsh, the narrator of Carla Gunn's Amphibian, makes you feel like you've been cornered on the playground by a sensitive and intelligent young boy who's going to tell you his observations about the world. Hilarious and affecting, he's something special.

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'So Many Ways To Sleep Badly' is an Original, Visceral Reading Experiencenew

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NOW Magazine | Zoe Whittall | 10-06-2008 | Fiction

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'The Amazing Absorbing Boy': Trinidad to T.O.new

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Tags: Cleo Paskal, Global Warring, environment, climate change, global warming, geopolitics

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