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July 30, 2012 1:24 PM
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The New Brunswick Literary Times
The province of New Brunswick has a rich literary history. The New Brunswick Literary Times provides up-to-date news of writers from or currently living in New Brunswick in a magazine format via articles available online. The site is curated by Gerard Beirne an Irish writer now living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A well published author, he is a Board Director of The Writers` Federation of New Brunswick and a Fiction Editor with The Fiddlehead, Canada`s longest surviving literary magazine. http://www.gerardbeirne.com/
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February 13, 2017 10:17 AM
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I've lived a good time. / I have work to do. I have my silence / as the sky does / every morning when the sun breaks over the hills.
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January 13, 2017 5:22 PM
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Booklist Online Book Review: Little Heaven.Cutter, Nick (author).Jan. 2017. 496p. Gallery, hardcover, $26 (9781501104213); e-book (9781501104220). REVIEW.First published December 15, 2016 (Booklist).Adult Books - Fiction - Horror Fiction
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January 13, 2017 5:17 PM
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Quill and Quire commissioned me to write this personal essay about Alice Munro’s legacy for their Books of the Year issue. I’ve excerpted a passage below: ‘Her wide readership giv…
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January 13, 2017 5:15 PM
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The editors at Quill and Quire have chosen Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush as one of their books of the year for 2016: Kerry Lee Powell’s debut story collection is one of the year’s indisputab…
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January 13, 2017 5:15 PM
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The Globe and Mail has chosen Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush as one of their books of the year for 2016: “Already an acclaimed poet, Powell’s debut book of short fiction, both gritty an…
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January 13, 2017 5:13 PM
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Cutter takes us from events in 1965 to their fallout in 1980, but the wider expanse of time and territory his characters walk doesn’t make their suffering any less intense, claustrophobic and constant
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December 17, 2016 5:23 PM
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George Elliott Clarke picks: The Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems by M. Travis Lane
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December 6, 2016 2:22 PM
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A true story about poet and writer Raymond Fraser’s first and subsequent meetings with Leonard Cohen in Montreal in 1966, a time when Cohen, who declared Bob Dylan as the best poet alive, was leaving poetry and novels behind to concentrate on songwriting
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November 27, 2016 4:55 PM
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November 23, 2016 8:40 AM
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Ghost Light, Theatre New Brunswick’s latest production, opened this Thursday. An autobiographical one-man show written and performed by renowned Canadian actor Shawn Wright, Ghost Light tells the story of his relationship with his late mother, and how she inspired his passion for theatre. Starting from his mother’s birth and carrying through all the way until … Continue reading In Review: TNB’s ‘Ghost Light’ →
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November 21, 2016 8:23 AM
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November 11, 2016 6:42 PM
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When confronted with an outcome of such shocking revulsion – no different than scratching an old hound’s ear only to discover an infestation of blood-engorged ticks under that furry flap – a horror writer such as myself confronts...
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February 17, 2017 4:17 PM
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There’s a rare, rich plangent quality to her sentences, as present in the spaces between the words, in what’s not said, as much as in what is articulated. As when Jenny, after weekly poetry classes in prison, suddenly realises that a new language is available to her, “the language between words”. Meaning – and if not forgiveness itself, something akin to it – we learn, can also be found in absences, in silences, and in not knowing.
‘Idaho’ by Emily Ruskovich is published by Chatto & Windus, £14.99
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January 13, 2017 5:22 PM
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Deeply unsettling new outing by the author whose writing Stephen King called “old-school horror at its best”
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January 13, 2017 5:21 PM
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Here are five Canadian titles hitting shelves this month that we're excited to crack open.
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January 13, 2017 5:16 PM
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Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush has been named a National Post Book of the Year for 2016. Here’s what the editors wrote: Powell’s story collection received nods from the Giller Prize, Ro…
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January 13, 2017 5:15 PM
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Authors Trevor Ferguson and Caroline Adderson picked Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush as among their favourite books of the year for 2016 in the Walrus Magazine. Here’s a taste of what Ca…
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January 13, 2017 5:14 PM
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CBC Books has chosen Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush as one of their favourite books of the year in both the Canadian fiction and literary fiction categories, and they’ve also included i…
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December 21, 2016 6:23 PM
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I read Alice Munro for the first time when I was living in a semi-abandoned cottage near an open-cast coal mine in Wales.
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December 17, 2016 5:19 PM
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Adventure, Action. Stories. Cocagne New Brunswick. Bangladesh. The Dark Side of a Promise. Authors. Allan Hudson. Short stories
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December 1, 2016 6:15 PM
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November 27, 2016 3:02 PM
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The winner of the 5th Annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry, "Paydays," by Phillip Crymble (chosen by Jan Zwicky) in Issue 35 of The Puritan.
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November 21, 2016 8:48 AM
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Our season continues with the world-premiere production of Ghost Light, written and performed by one of Canada’s most celebrated stage actors, Shawn Wright.
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November 12, 2016 9:26 AM
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University of New Brunswick’s Memorial Hall was a hive of creative minds during the 13th Annual Poetry Weekend in the first week of October. Every year, poets from across Canada and some from…
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November 2, 2016 8:26 PM
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Celebrated Canadian actor Shawn Wright returns home to New Brunswick to make his playwriting debut.
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