Inspired by Erin Hunter
 On the first day of cat-mus my mate gave to me
A kit mother sitting in her cave…
 12 leader s dying
11 deputies hunting
10 medicine cats healing
9 warriors wounded
8 apprentices eating
7 queens-a-nursing
6 kits-a-feeding
5 elders
4 stone-tellers
3 prey-hunters
2 cave-guards
And a kit-mother sitting in her cave
REVIEW – Rose DeShaw
Flora Jo is a young Metis poet, presently in [...]

Nowhere is it more true that a book can be like ‘a vacation in the pocket,’ than with PLEASANTLY DEAD by Judith Alguire. (Signature Editions, Doug Whiteway Ed., 185 pp. 2009).
 ‘The Pleasant’ is the name of an Inn in Ontario Cottage Country, the sort of place that would be packed to the rafters, if it [...]

 Off Our Rockers and Into Trouble: The Raging Grannies 
by Alison Acker
Edition: Paperback
Price: CDN$ 19.95
 
Availability: In Stock
  22 used & new from CDN$ 0.01
 
    ‘Off’ Moved, Entertained & Enlightened Me!, Aug 7 2004
Off Our Rockers is the best kind of personal non-fiction. In many ways it qualifies as Chick Lit (the viewpoints are female and outrageous [...]

After The Six O’Clock News,
Kemeny Babineau
Book Thug Publications
Toronto, Ontario 2009
It bears re-reading, this book of poems by Kemeny Babineau’s, ‘After The Six O’clock.’  Some bits just have a sense of rightness to them, that, ‘Of COURSE!’ feeling, like ‘ I care us ich,’  It’s been a long time since I felt the fun of a [...]

Review of Looking for Snow Fleas and Other Mysteries,
(Complete with activities for finding and exploring them)
by Diane Dawber, Borealis Press, Oct, 08, $12.95
For a child, a good book is when a lot of things come together; text, pictures, something challenging but fun to puzzle out and a way to take it with you and walk [...]

Mother Time, Joanne Arnott’s sixth book, is as strong on the time as it is on the mothering. (Ronsdale Press, 2007, 139pp, ISBN 978-155380-046-0). ‘Enchantment & Freedom,’ for example:
‘When did the chant begin? How many generations or thousands of years, shaken in the womb to the same damn rhythm…”
Measuring, (“today I have been a good [...]