Weekly Roundup November 23-29

Saturday November 23 Launch: Dragnet Issue 9 | 8:00 p.m. | Smiling Buddha Bar, 961 College Street | Featuring readings from Evan Munday, Catriona Wright, and Bardia Sinaee | $5 Sunday November 24 Toronto Poetry Slam | 8:00 p.m., sign up at 7:30 | The Drake Underground, | Twelve slam poets compete against each other […]

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Author in Profile: David B. Goldstein

While I was writing [Laws of Rest], I felt that all language was alive…I don’t get too concerned with how my work fits together—I just try to explore fully whatever compels me, and hope that I end up in a place I didn’t anticipate. —David B. Goldstein David B. Goldstein is one of BookThug’s three […]

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Weekly Roundup Nov 15-21

Friday November 15 Launch: The Stories That Are Great Within Us | Nov 15 & 16, 6:00 p.m. | Windup Bird Café, 382 College Steet | Enjoy dinner, drinks, and readings from a variety of authors to celebrate the publication of a book that took over three years in the making. Reading authors include Austin […]

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Weekly Roundup, Nov 8-15

BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA.  Friday November 8 Book Launch: Strip by Andrew Binks | 6:00 p.m. | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street | Nightwood Editions presents a launch for Andrew Binks’ novel Strip | FREE Saturday November 9 OTTAWA: […]

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Author in Profile: Sandra Ridley

Falling – not always a dropping to the ground construed as rhyme not death not a literal fall or heartbreak instead (but) any other form of respective bending. – “A General Tale” Sandra Ridley composes silence, a considered hush, and a tension so taut that it hums. – rob mclennan Sanrda Ridley’s most recent collection […]

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