Fall 2001

An interview with visual artist Wanda Koop; Can a Transgendered person be 'one of us?'; Natural Treatments for Fibroids by Dr. Carolyn DeMarco.

Wanda Koop in Venice by Herizons

Wanda Koop in Venice

(Venice, Italy) Wanda Koop makes very big art. Huge, bold canvasses with projections of expansive video images alongside them. While it's exhilarating to witness a woman take up so much space with such extraordinary art, the size of Koop's work hasn't made her life easier-especially today. Koop sits in the shaded edge of the front lawn of a disused military building on the tip of the Venice harbour.

Monkey Beach

Fall 2001

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Author:

Eden Robinson

Review by:

Jillian Ridington & Karolle Wall

Reading Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach is like sitting around a campfire with a skilled storyteller. Right from the beginning, Robinson's narrator and protagonist, Lisamarie, draws us into her world. In a voice that is clear, compelling and colloquial, Lisamarie takes us on a physical and emotional journey through the inlets and forests of the B.C. coastal mountains, into the hotels and back alleys of Vancouver's skid row, and back again.

A Fit Month for Dying

Fall 2001

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M.T.Dohaney

Review by:

Marguerite Andersen

A Fit Month for Dying, the fourth novel of Newfoundland writer M.T (Jean) Dohaney and the third in her trilogy about the women of Newfoundland's outposts-following The Corrigan Women and To Scatter Stones-is a very fine book. It reflects on politics, love, sexual abuse, family relations and leads the characters to challenge systems of cultural, political and spiritual authority in a very believable way. The main character is Tess, first female member of the Newfoundland legislature in St. John's.