Athena Becomes a Swallow and Other Voices from The Odyssey by Brent MacLaine (English) is a collection of 27 monologues spoken by minor characters from Homer's Odyssey. The poems demonstrate how the shine of the gods falls on the common folk as well as the nobility. MacLaine creates a world as real and immediate to us today as it may have been 3,000 years ago. (Goose Lane Editions)

The Trans-Canada Writer, edited by Mark Connelly (Milwaukee Area Technical College), Greg Doran, and Wendy Shilton (English) is a composition text that includes a full reader, rhetoric, research skills and a handbook. Its blend of concepts and practical strategies, intellectual rigour and readability, critical thinking and emphasis on writing for the "Real World" makes it a flexible learning tool and helps student strengthen their writing skills. (Nelson Canada)

In Shades of Green, the English Department’s Brent MacLaine brings his artist’s eye to the poetic form, exploring the chromatic complexity of experience. Whether emerging from the local landscapes of memoir or the present-day streetscapes of Manhattan, these poems are at once personal and speculative, capturing modulations of tone and hue of the Prince Edward Island landscape. This is Brent’s third book. (Acorn Press)

Athena Becomes a Swallow and Other Voices from The Odyssey by Brent MacLaine (English). These 27 finely crafted monologues spoken by minor characters from Homer’s The Odyssey demonstrate how the shine of the gods falls on the common folk as well as the nobility. MacLaine creates a world as real and immediate to us today as it may have been 3,000 years ago. (Goose Lane Editions)

Afternoon Horses by Deirdre Kessler (English): poetry that reflects the poet’s bond with island landscapes—particularly those of Prince Edward Island and Tasmania—and with childhood and family—the sinews that hold families together through distance, aging, and death. (Acorn Press)

Romantic Cosmopolitanism by Esther Wohlgemut (English) shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation, in sharp contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's, which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood, and geography. (Palgrave Macmillan)

Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: Essays in Honour of Bella Millett, edited by Catherine Innes-Parker (English) and Cate Gunn (author/ed), explores the growth of pastoral and devotional literature that flourished throughout the middle ages. Ranging from Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts to the reading of women in late-medieval England, the essays reveal a transformation into the literature of vernacular spirituality. (York Medieval Press)

Shannon Murray (English) has written a children's picture book, Bounce and Beans and Burn. Based on a story that won the L. M. Montgomery Children's Literature Award in 2006, the book tells the story of Sam who is so full of energy that his family sends him out to the garden to play. Little do they know that when he goes he has extraordinary adventures with samurai, giants, and dragons. (Acorn Press).

In Shape of Things to Come, poet Richard Lemm (English) traces his own journey from the west coast of North America to the east coast of Canada with his first foray into the world of short fiction. His hard-living characters follow their own paths through relationships with parents and siblings, friends and lovers, discovering and sometimes crossing their limits as they try to find their own way in the world. (Acorn Press)

The Chinook Project was created by Jane Magrath, Associate Professor of English, and Lisa Miller, Professor of Pathology and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at AVC, with a mandate to provide essential veterinary care to isolated communities in the Canadian Arctic. Each summer, the project responds to a request for service by taking four veterinary students in their final year of study and two AVC clinicians, along with essential equipment, to a community in Nunavut. The project visited Kimmirut (Southern Baffin) in 2006 and 2008, Cambridge Bay (Western Arctic) in 2007, and Kugluktuk (Western Arctic) in 2009.

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