BookThug is very pleased to announce that Aisha Sasha John’s acclaimed 2014 collection THOU is a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Ontario’s leading award for literature! Established in […]
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In Conversation: Wanda Praamsma interviews Lesley Battler about her poetic debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons
Lesley Battler‘s debut collection Endangered Hydrocarbons channels the poet’s personal experience as an employee of Shell Oil into an ingenious suite of poems confronting the extent and the implications of oil production in Canada. As […]
Continue readingGoodreads Book Giveaway for Giving Up
Goodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 3 copies of Mike Steeves’ stunning debut novel Giving Up. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book Miriam […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Malcolm Sutton talks with Mike Steeves about his debut novel, Giving Up
Mike Steeves’ new novel Giving Up is an uproarious, unrelenting look inside a contemporary middle-class relationship. Taking place over the course of two or three hours on a deceptively inauspicious evening […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Wanda Praamsma talks with Pearl Pirie about her new collection the pet radish, shrunken
The lyrics populating Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie‘s new collection, the pet radish, shrunken, buzz with oblique wisdom and surgically sharp wit. Cicadas chirp from beneath the troposphere; secret agent squirrels conspire among the […]
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