01 May 2009

A Northern BC Literature Quiz – Part 1

Answer in the comments and win an extravagant chapbook-related prize if you get all five right.

1. Which poetry title was launched this April by a prominent Prince George writer?

a) How it Feels Like For a Girl
b) Lousy Explorers
c) The Sudden Weight of Snow
d) Ecologue

2. What mythological/theological creature stars in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach?

a) Coyote
b) Abominable Snowman
c) B’gwus
d) Wetigo

3. What press published Barry McKinnon’s book The Centre: Poems 1970-2000?

a) Caitlin and Talon
b) Talon
c) Anvil
d) Caitlin

4. Which of these writers has NOT read in Prince George?

a) Al Purdy
b) Tomson Highway
c) Robert Creeley
d) Aritha van Herk
e) Carol Shields
f) Lorna Crozier
g) Richard Wagamese
h) Robert Kroetsch

5. Which has not been a bookstore in Prince George?

a) Another Art
b) Books on 3rd
c) Mosquito Books
d) Other Art

6 Comments:

At 1:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

1. c) Sudden Weight of Snow
2. c) B'gwus
3. d) Caitlin
4. c) Robert Creeley

 
At 7:40 AM, Blogger DJH said...

1. Lousy Explorers
2. B'gwus
3. Caitlin and Talon
4. Carol Shields
5. Other Art

 
At 11:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops, should have said,
5. a) Another Art

 
At 11:42 AM, Blogger Rob Budde said...

no cigars . . .

 
At 10:10 AM, Blogger denielle said...

1. Lousy Explorers
2. B'gwus
3. Talon
4. Carol Shields
5. Another Art

 
At 6:20 PM, Blogger Rob Budde said...

Nuh-uh.

 

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