Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Beatriz Hausner! Today is the official publication day for Beatriz’s latest poetry collection, Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, and we’re excited to share a sneak […]
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National Poetry Month Celebration: Jennifer LoveGrove
Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with a poem from Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove. Longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award in 2018, Beautiful Children With Pet […]
Continue readingNationl Poetry Month Celebration: Julie Joosten
Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Julie Joosten! Today happens to be the official release date of Nought, the highly anticipated follow-up to Joosten’s 2013 debut, Light Light, which […]
Continue readingNational Poetry Month Celebration: Leanne Dunic
Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with a few selections from To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, Leanne […]
Continue readingNational Poetry Month Celebration: Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller
Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues. Today’s poem is an untitled selection from Spawn by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller. Celebrated poet Kaveh Akbar writes that “Spawn is […]
Continue readingNational Poetry Month Celebration: Tanis MacDonald
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, […]
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