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The following is excerpted from The Coaches Site's review of Leave No Doubt by Mike Babcock.
Detroit Red Wings bench boss Mike Babcock is no fan of just good enough. He says it’s his one fear and motivator.
“That fear keeps me activated,” says Babcock, the only hockey coach … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes by Sharon Anne Cook.
The spectre of the independent woman smoker had haunted Canadian societal leaders since the nineteenth century. Women of this persuasion had rejected marriage and taken up work that interested and sustained them, were sure of their own minds … Read More >
From The Birth of the Titanic by Michael McCaughan.
An advertisement for Titanic's return trip from New York.
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The following is excerpted from the ESPN review of Leave No Doubt:
If you’re feeling down on your luck these days, and need a little pick-me-up, Mike Babcock’s recently published book called Leave "No Doubt: A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams" is just what the doctor ordered.
The 138-page book, … Read More >
The annual Blue Metropolis Montreal International Festival takes place April 18 to 23 @ the Opus Hotel, 10 Sherbrooke St West. MQUP participants include Will Staw, Sherry Simon, Hugh Hazelton, Brian Busby, and recent GG finalist for translation Donald Winkler. For a full schedule of events visit the … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Quill & Quire's review of A Lovely Gutting by Robin Durnford.
Robin Durnford’s debut collection guts the praise-song quality of nature poetry’s more traditional iterations in favour of a voice that is unafraid of tackling torment, loss, and the ebb and flow of nature’s sublimity. … Read More >
The following is excerpted from The McGill Tribune review of Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs by Elizabeth Hillman Waterston.
Elizabeth Hillman Waterston enrolled at McGill in September 1939—the same month that Hitler’s Panzer divisions first rolled into Poland and World War II began. When one thinks about how … Read More >
What you may have missed this week at MQUP
MQUP books shortlisted
Babcock leaves no doubts
It's poetry month:
Daylight Savings from Naomi Guttman’s Wet Apples, White Blood
Riddle from Jeffery Donaldson’s Palilalia
Marianna (poem to my first child) from Peter Dale Scott’s Mosaic Orpheus
Excerpt from Cast from Bells by Suzanne … Read More >
Gabrielle Roy Prize Finalist
Honours the best work of Canadian literary criticism published in English.
A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Memoirist, Translator, and Pornographer by Brian Busby
In a lively account of a man given to deception, who took delight in hoaxes, Busby manages to substantiate many of … Read More >