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Submitted by lrogers on July 26, 2009 - 8:04pm
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Sometimes a poem wants to be a song. Check out our website and the songs of redemption on Ruin and Beauty, the new album with Light Sweet Crude featuring my husband, blues mandolinist Rick van Krugel, singer Chris Trygg, Doug and the Slugs (David Letterman's favourite band) lead guitarist and Rev Gary Davis student Richard Baker, Del Cowsill on bass, Andy Graffitti on drums, Steve Drake on guitar, and heartstrings steel guitar by Jake Galbraith.

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Review of Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald in Backwater Review

Backwater Review: Canadian Book Reviews and Travel Writing recently reviewed Bruce MacDonald’s first novel, Coureurs de Bois (Cormorant Books 2007). From the review:

Set in a seedy stretch of Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, Coureurs de Bois is a novel where the insane speak oracular truths and a female Christ figure – complete with virgin birth – attempts to kill herself, shocked by the "absolute horror of the human condition." The characters here are full-blown and fascinating. The pacing is immaculate. The humour black, intelligent, and just as likely to reinforce a stereotype as deflect one.

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is the author of the novels Say My Name (Ekstasis Editions, 2000), Friday Water (Cormorant Books, 2003) and The Empress Letters (Cormorant Books, 2007). She has also published several collections of poetry, including Love in the Rainforest (Exile Editions, 1996), Heaven Cake (Sono Nis Press, 1997), The Saning (Sono Nis Press, 1999) and The Bursting Test (Guernica Editions, 2002).

Go to Linda Rogers’s Author Page