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Poetry Friday: "Decaf" by Sharon McCartney

For Poetry Friday, we've decided to calm down after an emotional week with some decaf, courtesy of Sharon McCartney. "Decaf," from for and against, took second place in Prairie Fire’s Bliss Carman Poetry Competition in 2005, and was a finalist in Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest in 2004.
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GLE authors on Gift Books for the Holidays (Part Two)

In an effort to help choose potential gifts for the holidays, we asked Goose Lane authors on what book that they would give to everyone if they could. Today, in part two, authors Michelle Butler Hallett and Shauna Singh Baldwin tell us what the holiday spirit impels them to give.
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GLE authors on Gift Books for the Holidays (Part One)

In an effort to help you, the reader, choose potential gifts for the holidays (as well as celebrate the recently discovered (to us) tradition of Jólabókaflóð), we asked a number of Goose Lane authors what is the one (or more) book that they would give to everyone if they could. Today, in part one, authors Gerry Fostaty, Scott Fotheringham, and Susan Evans Shaw tell us what book the holiday spirit impels them to give.

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Poetry Friday: "Transformations" by John Reibetanz

1. Hatchling

  When you change from your human shell
to slip into killer whale, shark, coho, 
    slow rotation won’t do.

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Jan Wong’s Apron Strings longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize

RBC Taylor Prize 2018 Jurors Christine Elliott, Anne Giardini, and James Polk have announced the longlist for the seventeenth awarding of Canada’s most prestigious non-fiction prize. Among the longlisted titles is award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jan Wong’s Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China, published by Goose Lane Editions. 

Established in 1998 by the trustees of the Charles Taylor Foundation and first awarded in 2000, 2018 marks the seventeenth awarding of the RBC Taylor Prize, which commemorates Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in the field of literary non-fiction. The jurors read a record breaking 153 non-fiction books submitted by 110 Canadian and international publishers. Other longlisted titles include Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga and Life on the Ground Floor by James Maskalyk.

 

Jan Wong knows food is better when it’s shared, so when she set out to research home cooking in several countries known for their distinctive cuisine, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and unexpectedly hilarious.

Of the book, the jury wrote: “Jan Wong proves in this book that the old adage ‘you are what you eat’ needs expanding. We are what we eat, and who we make it with, and who we eat it with, and what ingredients we use, and what recipes we follow, and where in the world our table is located. In this book Jan Wong focuses her laser beam scrutiny on domestic life and comestibles in three different countries, and delivers shrewd home truths on how we sustain and nourish ourselves.”

The RBC Taylor Prize shortlist will be announced at a news conference on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, and the winner revealed at a gala luncheon on Monday, February 26, 2018.

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