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  • Mike Grandmaison's Prair…
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  • Portraits of Winnipeg

Mike Grandmaison's Prairie and Beyond

In lush full colour, award-winning photographer Mike Grandmaison’s expert lens captures the vastness of sky and land that define the prairie landscape.

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Dating: a novel

Jenkins never dreamed he’d live long enough to be dating again. Hilarious, touching, and a little saucy, Dating proves that life is full of surprises no matter how old you are.

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Drift

South Africa is long way from Canada. In 1899, two prairie boys throw themselves into the conflict of the Second Boer War looking for something their small-town lives cannot ­provide. With ­breathtaking grace, Leo Brent Robillard delivers an unstoppable story.

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Hang Down Your Head

Join Randy Craig for a roller coaster read with more twists than the Mindbender. Hang on to your hat for Hang Down Your Head.  It’s Janice MacDonald at the top of her game. —Suzanne North, author of the Phoebe Fairfax

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Alert to Glory

"Sound the trumpets! Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory is a clarion call … A transformative book both salt and sweet." — Susan McCaslin

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Dadolescence

"This witty meditation on manly manliness is a head-butt at academic pretension and the Sword of Damocles that is the PhD thesis. A new novel so good, you’ll actually finish it." - Al Rae, Artistic Director, CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

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What the Bear Said

What the Bear Said is a marvellous collection of fables. The stories are ­immediate, the characters, both human and supernatural, crackle with life . . . —W. P. Kinsella

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Portraits of Winnipeg

Winnipeg artist and designer, Robert J. Sweeney, captures Winnipeg’s urban landscape in this remarkable ­collection of sketches, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink.

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Fred Wah Discussion - Language of Contemporary Poetry Series

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Fred Wah Discussion - Language of Contemporary Poetry Series

Fred Wah Discussion - Language of Contemporary Poetry Series

Tuesday, March 6, 5:30 to 7:00 pm
CAW Student Centre
Boardroom, 2nd Floor
University of Windsor

English graduate students coordinate a public discussion with visiting Vancouver poet Fred Wah. The discussion will focus on the importance of the speech utterance for the 1960s poets.

Poet Laureate of Canada Fred Wah, from Vancouver, BC, has authored over twenty poetry books. Wah's Waiting for Saskatchewan (Turnstone) won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1985.


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