Nickerson, Billeh
Dorothy Stratten’s Tent Trailer
Billeh Nickerson
When I overhear my parents talk
about the death of Dorothy Stratten,
the Playboy playmate first discovered
in a Vancouver Dairy Queen,
I somehow confuse her with the woman
who sold my family our tent trailer.
The Gladys Elegies
Billeh Nickerson
Barbara Nickel's The Gladys Elegies (Coteau Books) was the deserving winner of this year's Pat Lowther Memorial Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Although there are many things I'd rather do than read sonnets, Nickel's subtle and delicate elegies won me over.
Titanic: The Canadian Story
Billeh Nickerson
Titanic: The Canadian Story by Alan Hustak (Véhicule Press) offers a Canadian spin on the 130 passengers aboard the Titanic who were bound for Canada when the great ship went down. With the exception of the overwritten foreword by John P. Eaton, an American Titanic expert, I found this book to be a thorough and well-written document on many of the Canadian angles most American and British publishers have managed to ignore over the last eighty-six years.
