Author in Profile: Sandra Ridley
Falling – not always a dropping to the ground construed as rhyme not death not a literal fall or heartbreak instead (but) any other form of respective bending. – “A […]
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Author in Profile: Stan Dragland
The current questions are what anybody is asking. Let us never all agree to ask the same questions. Let us determine never to stop asking our own. Stan Dragland Stan […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Julie Joosten
( The valley carries cemeteries in its mouth, grounds sound to seed and buries it – there is a world and the world inside it – ) –“Once Sun” So […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Michael Blouin
“This is it. Here. Right now.” Michael Blouin’s dream of happiness Michael Blouin is one of BookThug’s two Fall fiction authors, whose book I Don’t Know How to Behave […]
Continue readingWeekly Roundup, Oct 18-25
BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA. Saturday October 19 Reading: Karen Mac Cormack and Shannon Maguire | 7:30 p.m. […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Colin Fulton
“If the statement ‘I am a poet’ is structurally identical to the statement ‘I am a macaron,’ then it’s either an unverifiable statement or macarons are sentient. And I’m totally […]
Continue readingWeekly roundup, October 10-18
BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA. This, our first weekly roundup, also features some special events for Thursday, October […]
Continue readingWelcome, Autumn.
I recently declared fall my favourite season. The decision was based largely on my affinity for pumpkin spice anything and my obsession with boots and leather jackets, but the season […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #22: Aisha Sasha John
self-portrait self-hugging elegance being a favourite escape elegance itself always wanting it felt true and that’s elegance, grace like a calm wind I am happy to know such elegance and […]
Continue reading“National Poetry Month” #21: Shannon Maguire
from “Pearl/Buttons” near the hour of dawn a stranger unfamiliar flowers she might have been named Sylvia or Buttons or Applied Computing Astrolabe and near to her the split of daisy bombs 53 reviews […]
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