Jennifer Bowering Delisle’s newest book Stock collects a series of poems that respond to stock images — how bizarre they are, how familiar, how they contain biases and stereotypes. She approaches the subject with a mix of humour and careful criticism, paying close attention to the representation — and misrepresentation — of women.
Delisle is probably best known for her collection of lyric essays, Micrographia, which won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Writers Guild of Alberta Memoir Award. Like that book, Stock highlights Delisle’s gift with language and her careful observations of the world around her.
Stock is published by Coach House Books and is available from your local bookseller.
Critically acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has a gift for small, minimalist films, including Meek’s Cutoff, First Cow and Showing Up, her 2022 character study of an artist preparing for an exhibition of her work. Reichardt’s newest film The Mastermind, is a different sort of art story — less art making and more art theft. The story follows James Blaine Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter and amateur art thief, who plots to steal four Arthur Dove paintings. Like most heist movies, things don’t exactly go as planned — which is bad news for Mooney but great news for audiences.
Watch The Mastermind at Metro Cinema running from Nov. 8 to 12, 2025.
When country-folk singer-songwriter Wyatt Flores was just 19 years old, he introduced himself to audiences with “Travelin’ Kid,” his first single. Two years later he cracked the Billboard charts with “Please Don’t Go.” Now he’s touring his first studio album Welcome to the Plains, and is stopping in Edmonton for his first show in the city. Flores’ gravelly voice and soulful strumming have a sound that is sure to feel at home here in Alberta, and his lyrics, full of honesty and self-deprecating humour, are bound to get stuck in your head.
See Wyatt Flores at Midway Music Hall on Wednesday Nov 12, 2025.
