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POETRY Exculpatory Lilies Susan Musgrave McClelland & Stewart, Sept. This new collection from the award-winning poet deals with grief: her partner, Stephen Reid, died in 2018, and their daughter Sophie in 2021 of an accidental overdose. But Musgrave’s sensibility imbues these poems with more – wit and the natural world serve as counterpoints in her

Bearskin Diary Alissa McArthur Bearskin Diary is a humane, unflinching portrayal of a woman asserting her voice and claiming space in an often hostile nation. From the 1960s to the late ’80s, the Canadian government forcibly removed over twenty thousand Indigenous children from their families, sending them to be fostered or adopted by white middle-class families. As with the residential school tragedy, the children taken in the “Sixties Scoop” grew up severed from their Indigenous familie...