Joy, nostalgia, grief, wonder—good poetry effortlessly evokes mood and atmosphere, taking us elsewhere while guiding us inward. This National Poetry Month, we bring you our In the Mood for Poetry […]
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Happy Book Birthday to Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik 🎉
Today, we have the honour of celebrating our second poetry release of National Poetry Month 2022: Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Plenitude pieces together the political and the playful, the […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell 🌕
Today, we are celebrating the release of Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell! This much-anticipated follow up to I Am a Body of Land explores the primordial connections between love, grief, […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand
Today, our Spring 2022 Preview series features Anita Anand’s A Convergence of Solitudes, a story of identity, connection and forgiveness in the lives of two families across Partition of India, […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Nonfiction Preview: Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, Edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee! This collection of twenty essays […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo 🎊 🎊
Today, we celebrate the release of Cane | Fire by internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo. This collection of poems navigates a complex communion of past and present, […]
Continue readingCelebrating International Women’s Day: Writers on the Women Who Shaped Them
Happy International Women’s Day! In honour of the occasion, we asked a group of Book*hug authors to speak about the female writers who have had an indelible influence on their […]
Continue readingHappy Book Birthday to The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken 🎉
The Spring 2022 season has officially arrived! Today, we’re kicking off the new season with the release of The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Fiction Preview: Bystander by Mike Steeves
Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series is Mike Steeves’s Bystander, a bold new work of intense psychological realism, and a much anticipated follow up to his critically acclaimed […]
Continue readingSpring 2022 Poetry Preview: Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik
Today, we are featuring Daniel Sarah Karasik’s bold, witty, and desire-filled, sophomore poetry collection Plenitude by as part of our Spring 2022 Preview Series. Shaped by Karasik’s experience of grassroots social […]
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