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He likens this act to the pet’s function as a political activator\n\t\t080\tBowering talks about Canadian writers or B.C. writers as being those who speak the vocabulary and the imagery of the place, rather than those who were born in the place\n\t\t114\tJohn Mills talks about the problem of the limited readership in B.C.\n\t\t130\tAudrey Thomas says she gets more reviews in the east than here\n\t\t168\tThomas and Bowering talk about their ideas of who they are writing for.  Mills says he writes for an imaginary ear.  He questions the relevance of labelling a writer by nationality\n\t\t207\tMills says reading a lot helped him most, as a beginning writer.  Bowering talks about the combination of reading a lot and finding peers who helped him.  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