The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: poetry

  • The Sylvia Hotel and Vancouver Writers

    “The Americans have a new war that’s how we know the generations have changed.” – George Fetherling, “First Signs of Wartime Spring,” The Sylvia Hotel Poems The Sylvia Hotel is a venerable institution, and this is my first visit. I was curious about whether the Sylvia had made it into any crime fiction. My research…

  • Pat Lowther and Sylvia Plath: Back to the Archives

    Cover image of Faber’s forthcoming edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil. Because I write about crime fiction most of the time, I’m acutely conscious when I’m writing about real-life tragedies linked to literary figures that this is a very different matter. There is real suffering and…

  • World Poetry Day 2026: Lowther, Atwood, Carson and Classical Mythology

    I read Erin Shields‘s Ransacking Troy in one great gulp this morning, and it’s a bracing way to start the day. As in her previous work, Shields’s play is reconsidering familiar stories from a feminist perspective in order to recuperate what has been lost or silenced. Her efforts extend from Greek mythology to the present,…