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Bookmark Saved!
We have reached our fund-raising target for the
Bookmark 2009-2010 production season and the show is on the air for another
year! To each of you who dug deep and supported this cause financially, to
each of you who passed the word along to others, to each of you who listens to
and supports the program and takes part in interviews and sharing feature ideas
– a heartfelt THANK YOU! Bookmark is not just a unilateral initiative
by a few people … it is a broad-based co-operative effort by literally hundreds
of people across Alberta to ensure the literary community and book trade in this
province has a forum and a communication platform for reaching out to each other
and to Albertans and to the world. You have more than proved that through this
campaign. So, I will no doubt be seeing or talking to some of you through the
coming season as we organize a new round of interviews and features. Time to get
to work! Cheers, Ken Davis
Host, Bookmark, CKUA Radio Network
Bookmark is dedicated to exploring Alberta's literary scene. It is
hosted by veteran broadcaster, journalist and book-publishing executive Ken
Davis. Non-fiction exposés, spellbinding mysteries, performance poets and
poets-laureate, authors, booksellers, publishers-we will encompass all things
literary and "of-the-book" as they may emerge in Alberta. Tune in for featured
readings, interviews, book reviews, roundtable discussions on contemporary literary
and social issues, Alberta's best-seller lists and just about anything else that
seems just too good to leave out! Bookmark… Sunday afternoons from 12:30
to 1:00 p.m. on CKUA.
Listen to past programs
Please send comments or inquiries to bookmark@ckua.com.
Bookmark host Ken Davis has a blog devoted to the book
trade. Check it out at bookmarkckua.blogspot.com.
Upcoming Features and Author Interviews
 February
14, 2010
Bookmark talks to Donna Coates, co-editor with George
Melnyk of the collection: Wild
Words: Essays on Alberta Literature.
And we feature Part Two of our Two-Part interview with Alberta
novelist and poet Robert Kroetsch and his new book
of poetry entitled Too
Bad: Sketches Toward A Self-Portrait.
 February
21, 2010
Our guest this week is Winnipeg writer and British ex-pat
Rosie Chard, discussing her powerful new book of survival
and adaptation in an energy-starved Canadian winter, Seal
Intestine Raincoat, published by NeWest Press
of Edmonton.
CKUA would like to thank the following companies for their
generous sponsorship and support of Bookmark:
Alberta Views magazine is a proud supporter of Alberta
writers and the local literary scene. Read more of the province's
award-winning writers each month in Alberta Views. Find out
what makes them so original and why Alberta Views was voted
2009 National Magazine of the Year. Pick up a copy of this
month's Alberta Views or go online and subscribe at albertaviews.ab.ca.
The Edmonton Public Library's online catalogue is more
interactive, innovative and intuitive than ever before! Share
opinions and recommendations through added social networking
functions. Enhanced search capabilities make finding books,
movies and music easier and a lot more fun. Keep track of
your favorites, and find new ones through lists of bestsellers,
award winners and recent additions. Your library card is your
key to all this and more at epl.ca.
Privately held and rooted in western Canada for over 50 years,
Maclab Enterprises proudly builds, owns and manages
premier developments, quality residential and commercial rental
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on human values and conservative management, Maclab provides
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supporters across western Canada. Learn more at maclab.com.
CKUA would also like to thank the many personal donors
to Bookmark, ensuring this important addition to the
literary arts of Canada is available for all listeners.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada
Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing
and publishing throughout Canada. Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil
des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 20,1 millions de dollars l'an dernier
dans les lettres et l'édition à travers le Canada. | 
