Tanya Tagaq

"Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna the Land, a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to The New York Times, 'demands full attention, whether she's whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky.' Ever Deadly weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections,...

What does it take to carve out a career as a poet? Why on earth would anyone attempt it? AL PURDY WAS HERE is the portrait of an artist driven to become a great Canadian poet at a time when the category barely existed. Al Purdy is a charismatic tower of contradictions: a "sensitive man" who whips out a poem in a bar fight; a factory worker who finds grace in an Arctic flower; a mentor to young writers who remained a stranger to sons. Purdy has been...