Author Archives: Jay MillAr

Calling all lovers of literature, spoken word, visual arts, music and food. Hear Here, Toronto’s roaming creative salon, premieres tomorrow, Thursday November 20, at a pop up downtown location. The inaugural event: Toronto: An Artistic Exploration, hosted by Anna Sapershteyn, promises a dynamic evening of reading, music, and cuisine and features a keynote address from […]

On this, the eve of the announcement of the winner this year’s Governor General’s Award, BookThug’s intrepid intern Rick Meier sat down to talk with Julie Joosten about her shortlisted collection Light Light. Read on, and learn about Anna Atkins and other lesser-known voices in a history of science more than three hundred years long […]

On October 8, 2014, on one of the first really chilly nights of the Fall, the brightest lights of Toronto’s literary community assembled in Kensington Market to celebrate the launch of BookThug’s new Fall lineup. It was a brilliant evening. And luckily, the cameras were rolling. Thank you to R. Kolewe for capturing the following […]

September 24, 2014 Wanda Praamsma’s debut poetry collection a thin line between crafts a story that transcends geographic boundaries and time periods, by weaving together lives from her own family’s past. What emerges is a poignant, and at times humorous, portrait of a Dutch-Canadian family and a close look into a young woman’s exploration of […]

August 19, 2014 Reading Theseus is an intimate experience; the reader witnesses bpNichol and Wayne Clifford actively troubling the processes of myth making and word smithing. Nichol has declared his intention “of finding as many exits as possible from the self . . . in order to form as many entrances as possible for the […]

August 1, 2014 As I mentioned in a prior blog post, I will be adding Air Carnation to my bedside books collection. But attached is a fun questionnaire filled out by Muro, in addition to pictures of her writing spaces in both Chile, as well as in Montreal. Did you know her favourite place to […]

July 28, 2014 The moment I finished Air Carnation, I felt I had to email Argentine author Guadalupe Muro questions regarding her book, since I had scribbled enough notes and comments in the margins. Muro was gracious enough to respond, even as she was in the process of traveling to Mexico. Along with her responses, […]

July 4, 2014 After reading Air Carnation, we were curious to ask Guadalupe Muro about the soundtrack she has been putting together. She agreed to do an interview with us, and to share some insights on the inspiration behind it, the writing and recording experience, and what was next for the project. We just listened […]

June 27, 2014 Kristen: Can you describe your editorial process for the selection of these works by bpNichol? Stephen: As most of the works in the collection only exist in a single state, there wasn’t a lot of editorial comparisons between drafts and publications that I had to work through. Much of the labour was […]