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Article content Wishes are never simple, and in every poem Lee excavates the conflicts and contradictions inherent in our deepest desires. The narrator wants intimacy even though it comes with pain; she dreams of escaping the familiar confines of her life, even as she lovingly brushes her aging dog’s teeth. A writer, her characters are bad mothers who “leave / their children, sit with regret in their lap.” She thinks: “You have never. You would never. And yet.” She mulls these thought...

The title is the stepping off point for a deep dive into the passions of the mind by Charlie Smith on April 21st, 2021 at 9:08 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1 The Shadow List By Jen Sookfong Lee. Wolsak & Wynn, 88pp, softcover What happens when a critically acclaimed novelist and former CBC Radio books commentator switches lanes and becomes a poet? In the case of Vancouver’s Jen Sookfong Lee, it’s a magnificent ride. The Shadow List is a compulsively readable collection of poems touching on everythi...

Michelle Cyca: How would you describe your literary tastes? Jen Sookfong Lee: I mostly read novels — my favourites are really immersive novels that have a lot of different layers in terms of setting and character, and all those fictional elements. I look for something that will suck me in and not let me go. The last one was Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz, which is a pandemic novel. Oddly, she wrote it before any of this happened. It’s not that she was predicting the futur...

Detainees. for medical swoet, the contrast to the da could not be plain. >> if there is an acute need in the middle of the night. and there is immediate care. >> unlike the va, there are no wait times and shadow list for treatment and the demand is growing as the camp population gets older. >> the age, the ages are anywhere from mid20s up to 67? >> no one over 70 yet? >> an aging population here in the camp faces the medical challenges has americans back home. >> we are seeing blood pressure and...