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Fall Poetry PREVIEW: A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu, translated by Nathanaël

Seasoned BookThug Chantal Neveu, author of Coït, translated by Angela Carr (BookThug, 2012), returns with A Spectacular Influence, translated by Nathanaël. Drawing from philosophy (including Pre-Socratic materialists, Nietzsche, and Spinoza), A Spectacular Influence is an exercise in extreme perception. With clear lines and minimalist language, the poems solicit movement in melancholy as a way of celebrating the intimate […]

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina by Shannon Maguire

Following her ambitious and otherworldly debut, fur(l) parachute (BookThug, 2013), Shannon Maguire returns with Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina (available now). Part two in a planned medievalist trilogy, Myrmurs seizes upon the twelfth-century poetic form of the sestina as a starting point for an exploration of living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; the agency of ant colonies; […]

Fall Fiction PREVIEW: Grand Menteur by Jean Marc Ah-Sen

The secret world of Mauritian street gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Sergent, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional calibre whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse police with alibis, the Menteur […]

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: The Relativistic Empire by Samuel Andreyev

An obsessive perfectionist, Samuel Andreyev inhabits several worlds: he writes in English while living in France; he is an internationally known composer, performer, and teacher; and he is an experimental poet who documents words, phrases, and rhetorical devices while staying true to the fundamental tools of classical poetry. This Fall, BookThug is thrilled to present […]

Fall Fiction PREVIEW: The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey

Fall Fiction Previews continue with a sneak peek at Josh Massey’s dream-like, eco-dystopian satire, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree. Set in the not-too-distant 2030s in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffrey Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned-elk farmer, whose goal is to live peacefully with […]

Fall Fiction PREVIEW: Pauls by Jess Taylor

Paul is not always the same Paul, but could very well be a similar Paul, another Paul in a long line of Pauls. Paul runs through forests, drinks in student housing, flirts with girls, at times is a girl, loves men, makes friends, jumps from buildings, hurts people, gets hurt, climbs up towards the sky, […]

A BookThug’s Guide to the Fall Literary Festival Season

The fall book season has arrived, and cities far and wide will soon be abuzz with literary festival fun. Starting this month, BookThugs will be popping up at book festivals and fairs across the country. Following, we’ve compiled this helpful guide to find your local literary event and the BookThugs who’ll be attending. A BOOKTHUG’S GUIDE TO THE FALL 2015 LITERARY […]

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol by Liz Worth

When Andy Warhol’s a, A Novel was first published in 1968, The New York Times Book Review declared it “pornographic.” Yet more than four decades later, the book continues to be an essential documentation of Warhol’s seminal Factory scene. And though it offers a Pop Art snapshot of 1960s Manhattan that only Warhol could capture, it remains a […]

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: Emanations: fluttertongue 6 by Steven Ross Smith

Steven Ross Smith is one of Canada’s preeminent sound poets. He is also one of the few poets in Canada currently engaged in writing a life-poem. Emanations is the sixth chapter of this project. Smith bends, confuses, and disintegrates the fundamental premises of poetic and fictive creation-working language, narrative, and meaning like sculptural material. Emanations […]

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: An Exclusive Sneak Peek at Lorcation by Brian Dedora

When acclaimed Canadian writer Brian Dedora travelled to Spain in 2012 to explore “Lorca’s Granada,” he experienced an unexpected transformation that set him on a path of understanding—of the life and work of Federico García Lorca; of the basic elements in common between the Spanish writer’s life and his own; and of the tragic grandeur […]

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Author Archives: rick

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu, translated by Nathanaël

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina by Shannon Maguire

Fall Fiction PREVIEW: Grand Menteur by Jean Marc Ah-Sen

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: The Relativistic Empire by Samuel Andreyev

Fall Fiction PREVIEW: The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey

Fall Fiction PREVIEW: Pauls by Jess Taylor

A BookThug’s Guide to the Fall Literary Festival Season

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol by Liz Worth

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: Emanations: fluttertongue 6 by Steven Ross Smith

Fall Poetry PREVIEW: An Exclusive Sneak Peek at Lorcation by Brian Dedora

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