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Bookworm, no. 86

Bookworm, no. 86

Adrian Ma reviews “What I Mean to Say,” by Ian Williams. Caroline Noël on Georgia Toews’s “Nobody Asked for This.” David Venn on Matthew Scace’s “Jasper on Fire.” Inside the April issue.

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Mar 11, 2025
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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time
Ian Williams
House of Anansi Press
248 pages, softcover and ebook

With What I Mean to Say, the companion text to the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, Ian Williams sets an ambitious goal: to spark a conversation about conversation. Through cultural and personal reflections, the award-winning poet, nove…

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