Forty Cords for Warmth is a self pub book by the Creative Writing Society of UNBC (Univeristy of Northern British Columbia). It
is composed mostly of short poems written by the Creative Writing Society of UNBC. I found some of the poems surprisingly good (Aside from a few that focused on teenage existential angst). I found particularly interesting the poetry concerning current First Nations issues (e.g drug use).

Included are a few short stories which were interesting as first works but not all that good. One issue I see is the focus on describing far too much detail. Is this an issue for beginning writers? If you are an aspiring writer, do you have to fight against the urge to spend a lot of time describing detail? Given that the stories were meant to be written at the university level (And by the English Department club) I found too many through/threw type of errors which put me off. I felt like I should correct the books before sending them off into the world. :P ( )