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The state of our ferry services; trades need to welcome new faces; a 17-storey tower that doesn’t fit in

Review of "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands" by Kate Beaton.

A 2022 Poetry in Transit juror reflects on 26 years of powerful short poems.

Penn Kemp and Richard-Yves Sitoski have forged a collection of powerful verse against the war.

The Victoria chapter of Bicycles for Humanity is once again accepting good used bikes, financial donations and spare parts to fill a shipping container for disadvantaged communities in Africa.

Even during COVID, Vancouver is brimming with poetry if you know where to look.

The White Crow close to the heart of the universe poem, one that of the sea. –Christine Smart, “The Sounds of the World” This book about life, death, and grieving, infused with extraordinary observational power, is for sinking one’s teeth into, with plenty to digest in all three sections: Here, There, and Here & Now. In “Messenger” the white crow is “Mute as a clean page / snowy white and cawing.” So many poems are breathtaking, each stanza a gasp. A doe “leads her fawn to tas...

How Poetry Saved My Life Jennifer Zilm Amber Dawn’s second book, sections of which were first published in Room (30:2; 35:4), is a mixed-genre work chronicling the author’s experience in the sex industry and her experience of poetry as a life-changing force. The book attempts to de-stigmatize sex-work, which is still often seen as something “others” do. Dawn’s account, which includes wise reflections on class, queer identity, and the way in which sex-work can change its practitioners...