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Hand Luggage / P.K. Page

The Porcupine's Quill, 93 pp, $16.95, softcover.

Vancouver International Writers Festival

This was a momentous year for the Vancouver International Writers Festival, and not only because it marked the final October for founding artistic director Alma Lee.

Miraculous Hours / by Matt Rader

By Matt Rader. Nightwood Editions, 80 pp, $16.95, softcover.

Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences, by Jan Zwicky

Gaspereau Press, $18.95, 73 pp, softcover.

Treble, by Evelyn Lau

Polestar Book Publishers, 112 pp, $18.95, softcover.

Anthropy, by Ray Hsu

Nightwood Editions, 81 pp, $15, softcover.

What We All Long For, by Dionne Brand

Knopf Canada, 319 pp, $29.95, hardcover.

I. Another. The Space Between, by Jamie Reid

TalonBooks, 192 pp, $17.95, softcover.

City Honours Its Own Checkered History

The following comes from the prologue to Daniel Francis's biography of Louis Denison Taylor (1857 ­1946), Vancouver's longest-serving mayor.

Poems Chaotic and Sparkling

The collected poems of Sina Queyras's Teethmarks (Nightwood Editions, $16) sprawl across the space of the book like clothes scattered across the floor of a messy room. You can...