When Phyllis Webb published Wilson’s Bowl in 1980, Northrop Frye hailed it as a landmark in Canadian literature”:landmark, an event that marks a turning point in something (in this case, Canadian lite
Webb's poems bridge numerous conceptual divides: the (porous) boundaries between poetry and painting, poetry and politics, modernism and postmodernism.
Set against the austere landscape of northern Labrador, Windflower is the poignant story of Elsa Kumachuk, a young Inuit woman torn between two worlds by the birth of her blond-haired, blue-eyed son.
