Launched! New titles from FBCW members Midnight Thoughts: A Fusion Of Poetry And Visual Arts Annick Lemay | Rutherford Press, 2020 | ISBN: 978-1-988739-41-0 | $44.95 Poetry from a person in love with life’s vivid colours. Paintings that describe scenes in a thousand words. Photographs that reach through the eyes to the mind of a sensitive observer. Midnight thoughts come with eyes dreamily closed and minds wide open. “Easy to read, the kind of poetry that gives you ease and comfort. A gorgeous art book to be kept close by and to be read one poem a day or one poem in need. Like a friend, this poetry comforts, guides and reassures. Written with honesty and a clear sense of love for life!” Thierry Amezcua, New York. Available through Chapters and from the publisher, Rutherford Press https://rutherfordpress.ca. Loose Ends Brian d’Eon | Wipf and Stock, 2020 | ISBN: 978-1-725271-43-2 | $18.00 USD How did Lazarus cope after being raised from the dead? Did he simply return to his normal routines? During Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, what was the donkey thinking? If a stone had the gift of sentience, what witness would it have given to the woman caught in the act of adultery? These are but a few of the questions posed by the author in his collection of short stories, Loose Ends. Inspired by countless generations of midrash writers, d’Eon looks for ways to join piety and imagination together, searching for new meaning in stories whose long familiarity may have blunted their original impact. Vancouver’s Women in Blue - Trailblazers of the Vancouver Police Department 1904–1975 Carolyn J. Daley | Ruddy Duck Press | ISBN: 978-1-999279-20-2 | $20.00 Vancouver’s Women in Blue is the groundbreaking account of the first 125 women who served with the VPD. Theirs is the story of women who first served as matrons and the slow, twisting path their role travelled as it evolved into assignments as fully operational police constables. Foreword by Bev Busson, RCMP Commissioner (retired) and endorsed by the Honourable Wally Oppal, QC.
Finding Heartstone: A Taste of Wilderness Cathy Sosnowsky | Caitlin Press, 2020 | ISBN: 978-1-773860-34-3 Finding Heartstone tells of a house in the wilderness and its builders, a family marked by abandonment, grief, separation. With well-chosen and often poetic detail, Cathy Sosnowsky shows how, over decades, the art of construction enriches all their lives. (Review by Cynthia Flood, author of The English Stories.)
Dispatches from Ray’s Planet: A Journey through Autism Claire Finlayson | Caitlin Press, 2020 | ISBN: 978-1-773860-30-5 | $24.95 Finlayson’s debut memoir is based on her relationship with a brother who didn’t know he was autistic until he was fifty. “On my planet,” he always insisted, “telling little white lies would be a capital offense.” His anxiety in social situations only increases his propensity toward verbal gaffes. But in writing—where he has time and space to formulate a response—he has no communication deficits whatsoever. Ray patiently explains how the mechanism of empathy works in him, and how eye contact is difficult, not because he doesn’t care about people, but because he sees too much. Together, these siblings from different “planets” study the complexities of autism spectrum disorder, and learn to appreciate, if not quite understand, each other. 28 WORDWORKS ︱ 2021 Volume I
