Monthly Archive for: ‘October, 2021’

‘Home’ carries the voices and songs of a lost village
By MLJ
on October 19, 2021

‘Home’ carries the voices and songs of a lost village

‘In a snowy mountain village, my family had lived peacefully for hundreds of years …’ – so begins Karen Hendriks’ new picture book for children aged 7 and upwards. The narrative continues with guards forcing the peaceable villagers to leave their homes taking no more than they can carry. The little girl at the centre

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A History of My Brief Body
By MLJ
on October 15, 2021

A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt is an NDN from the Driftpile Cree Nation and Canada’s first First Nations Rhodes scholar. He is also an award-winning poet and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Creative Writing at University of British Columbia. The essays in his non-fiction debut, A History of My Brief Body, have the resonance of poetry zinging off the

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