Canadian authors

So many visibly homeless people especially, it seems to me, in Montreal and Ottawa. As I vacillate between avoiding, trying to help, and almost collapsing in despair, I am confronted with Jesse Thistle’s incredible memoir and, whilst I still have no answers, I feel uplifted that – at least sometimes – one truly can rise […]

I had the pleasure of meeting Canadian author and Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke this year and chatted to him about the skeletons in his family’s closet that led to the writing of this novel based on the deeds of his ancestral cousins. It packs a real punch: variously gruesome, funny, sensuous, and brave.   […]