This year's Vancouver Art Book Fair that just ended, offered alternatives to commercial circulation of physical objects that is typical in this vendor-style event. As a proponent of free digital and mail art book exchanges, RML noted some …
Lois Klassen
RML at VABF
The 2020/21 Reading the Migration Library Series is now exhibited in the second online Vancouver Art Book Fair (October 18 to 26, 2021). VABF is Canada's first, and longest-running, fair that features books, magazines, zines and printed ephemera as …
Skywoman’s Medicine
September 30, 2021 – Canada’s first “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation” It is good to remember that the original woman was herself an immigrant. She fell a long way from her home in Skyworld, leaving behind all who knew her and who held …
On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana
The poems included in On Loss describe the subjective impact on the writers of Ghanaian patterns of migration. In the first poem, A.B. Godfreed refuses to carry within herself "so many false divisions" of dual Asante and British identities. The …
We Are Moulting Birds
This collection of sixteen poems takes the reader through some of the multiple journeys and migrations affecting Ghanaian individuals and families. Whether transient labourers with work permits, a foreign student in Ohio, a family member in Ottawa, …