Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues. Next up is ‘No Exit’, a poem from Mobile by Tanis MacDonald. Mobile is many things. It is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis […]
Continue readingAnnouncing the Stay Home and Read Sale
From everyone at Team Book*hug, we hope this finds you safe and well. We know this is a difficult and challenging time and we want to thank you for staying […]
Continue readingNational Poetry Month Celebration: Emmalea Russo
Happy National Poetry Month! To celebrate our poets and all things #NPM20, we’ll be sharing a poem each day on our blog. To kick things off, we’re pleased to bring […]
Continue readingMobile: Who Would Hear?
Tanis MacDonald’s latest book, Mobile, is a feminist reconsideration of Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working […]
Continue readingFerocious Fearlessness: In Conversation with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author and translator of The Faerie Devouring
The Faerie Devouring is a modern-day fable and feminist bildungsroman by Quebecois author Catherine Lalonde and reimagined by the award-winning poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei. The Faerie Devouring tells the story of the sprite, […]
Continue readingQueers, Processing: A Dialogue on Navigating Works in Progress
As writers, we are primed for the moment when a book comes out—the launch, reviews and physical object. I asked six Queer writers—Amy Fung, Leah Horlick, Zoe Whittall, Jen Currin, […]
Continue readingPossibility of Transformation: In Conversation with Michael Nardone
The Ritualites is Michael Nardone’s book-length poem on the sonic topography of North America. Composed at sites all across the continent—from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp by Aaron Tucker
In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Aaron Tucker’s second full-length collection of poems, Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: Better Nature by Fenn Stewart
In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Better Nature, Fenn Stewart’s first poetry collection. Much of the language that makes up […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: The Year of My Disappearance by Carole David, Translated by Donald Winkler
For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Carole David’s award-winning poetry collection, The Year of My Disappearance, translated by Governor General’s […]
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