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# Book*hug Press

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- [Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-fiction-preview-my-work-by-olga-ravn-translated-by-jennifer-russell-and-sophia-hersi-smith/) - Today's Fall 2023 Fiction Preview features Olga Ravn's My Work, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith! From the acclaimed author of the International Booker Prize–shortlisted literary sensation The Employees comes a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood. Anna is utterly lost. Still in shock after the birth of her son, she moves to snowbound
- [Fall 2023 Season Reveal!](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-season-reveal/) - Today, we are thrilled to reveal our Fall 2023 lineup. Our upcoming season features ten incredible works of fiction and poetry! Read on for all the details, including publication dates, pre-order info, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ImE_hBCDcs Fall 2023 Fiction My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith Literature in Translation Series
- [Pride Month Sale + Reading List!](https://bookhugpress.ca/pride-month-sale-reading-list/) - Happy Pride! At Book*hug, we're celebrating our LGBTQ2S+ authors in a few ways. Firstly, we're holding a Pride Month Sale! Save 25% off all available titles from June 15 to June 30 at 11:59pm. Use code PRIDE2023 at checkout. Discount applies to all print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases. We
- [Koh-i-Noor: The Playlist by Michael Eddy](https://bookhugpress.ca/koh-i-noor-the-playlist-by-michael-eddy/) - Koh-i-Noor: The Playlist is here! Michael Eddy has curated an official playlist for his debut novel Koh-i-Noor. Michael has also written sixteen vignettes, explaining how he associates each song with his book! Michael crafts a fascinating mixtape-essay that walks us through his early love of Hip Hop, his art school days in Halifax’s “Golden Age”,
- [Jelly, Baby: The Playlist by Therese Estacion](https://bookhugpress.ca/jelly-baby-the-playlist-by-therese-estacion/) - Jelly, Baby: The Playlist is here! Therese Estacion has curated an official playlist for her debut collection of essays Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disbaility and Vulnerability. Therese has also written thoughtful blurbs for each song, explaining their relevance to her writing process and the themes explored within her book! Take it away Therese! _________________________________________________________ Yield by cktrl—
- [Ten Essential Reads for For Short Story Month 2026](https://bookhugpress.ca/ten-essential-reads-for-for-short-story-month-2026/) - For Short Story Month, we’ve compiled a list of ten essential short story collections from our catalogue that everyone should check out! From speculative worlds to flash fiction and well beyond, these impressive collections prove that, while the stories may be short, they pack a powerful punch that will leave a lasting impression. Discover them
- [Behind the Poem With Jennifer LoveGrove](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-poem-with-jennifer-lovegrove/) - Today, we invite Jennifer LoveGrove to the blog to share the story behind the writing of Amber: resting place of departed souls, one of the poems in her latest collection The Tinder Sonnets. Read on for insight into the various associations Jennifer drew from the word Amber, and how this shaped her writing. Take it
- [Gold Star: The Playlist by Emma McKenna](https://bookhugpress.ca/gold-star-the-playlist-by-emma-mckenna/) - Gold Star: The Playlist is here! Emma McKenna has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her poetry collection Gold Star. We hope you enjoy! The Playlist: Calling Over Time by Edith Frost Give Out by Sharon Van Etten Metal Heart by Cat Power Protection by Emma Ruth Rundle War by Brutus FOUR
- [Behind The Book With Liz Johnston, Author of The Fall-Down Effect](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-book-with-liz-johnston-author-of-the-fall-down-effect/) - Today, we invite Liz Johnston to the Book*hug blog to share the story of how she began writing her debut novel The Fall-Down Effect! Finding initial inspiration through reading environmental articles on The Narwhal, as well as from the works of Annie Proulx and Kim Trainor, Liz details how she came to settle on the
- [Behind The Book With D. Nandi Odhiambo, author of Amapiano Eyes](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-book-with-d-nandi-odhiambo-author-of-amapiano-eyes/) - Today, we invite D. Nandi Odhiambo to the Book*hug blog to share the story of how he began writing his latest novel Amapiano Eyes! While he initally set out with the goal of taking a break from writing, the book grew organically out of fragmented sentences jotted down during the Covid-19 Pandemic, with Nandi finding
- [On Collage With Camilla Gibb, author of I Used to Be a Pisces](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-collage-with-camilla-gibb-author-of-i-used-to-be-a-pisces/) - Today, we invite Camilla Gibb to the Book*hug blog to share the story of how revisiting collage work saved her from writers block, and subsequently led to the writing of her debut poetry collection I Used to Be a Pisces ! Take it away Camilla! _________________________________________________________ I finished writing my last novel in 2019. A
- [Book*hug Wrapped 2025: Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrapped-2025-staff-edition/) - It is time for part two of the 2025 edition of our annual Book*hug Wrapped series, where we ask our staff what their favourite books of the year have been (which luckily coincides with gift giving season). We hope you enjoy this year’s selections, and that some of these titles will end up on your
- [Book*hug Wrapped 2025: Author's Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrapped-2025-authors-edition/) - It is time for the 2025 edition of our annual Book*hug Wrapped series, where we ask our authors what their favourite books of the year have been (which luckily coincides with gift giving season). We hope you enjoy this year’s selections, and that some of these titles will end up in your to be read
- [Reckless: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/reckless-the-playlist/) - Reckless: The Playlist is here! Andrea MacPherson has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her poetry collection Reckless. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here. Dunna—Mac Miller NASA—Ariana Grande Silver Springs—Fleetwood Mac Heart Shaped Box—Nirvana You Don't Get Me High Anymore—Phantogram The Night We Met—Lord Huron Montero—Lil Nas X Stay—Mac
- [women & roosters: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-roosters-the-playlist/) - women & roosters: The Playlist is here! Fenn Stewart has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her brand new poetry collection women & roosters. Fenn has also written an introduction detailing the playlist’s origins as a soundtrack for running in the forest, with detailed notes. We hope you enjoy! Take it
- [Behind the Book With Cary Fagan](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-book-with-cary-fagan/) - Today, we invite Cary Fagan to the Book*hug blog to share the story behind how the five disparate stories in his new collection A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News came together to create a single book! Take it away Cary! ________________________________________________________________________________ You know that story about the elephant? How one man feels its tail
- [Soundtrack: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/soundtrack-the-playlist/) - Soundtrack: The Playlist is here! Michael V. Smith has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of his brand new lyric memoir Soundtrack. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here. Just Like U Said It Would B—Sinéad O'Connor Why Can't I Be You?—The Cure Hot Hot Hot!!!—The Cure You Don't Need—Jane Siberry
- [Behind the Book with Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-book-with-shani-mootoo/) - Today, we invite Shani Mootoo to the Book*hug blog to share the decades-long origin story behind her latest novel Starry Starry Night! Read on for insights into Shani's earliest forays into writing, as well as the process of transforming Starry Starry Night into a work of autofiction. Take it away Shani! _____________________________________________________________________ One can say
- [Behind the Essay with Tamara Jong](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-essay-with-tamara-jong/) - Today, we invite Tamara Jong to the blog to share the origin of two entries from her debut memoir Worldly Girls! Read on for insights into the inspirations and questions that led Tamara to write the essays "Weight" and "Tell Me a Ghost Story". Take it away Tamara! __________________________________________________ I first came up with the
- [Ten Essential Reads for Women in Translation Month 2025](https://bookhugpress.ca/ten-essential-reads-for-women-in-translation-month-2025/) - With Women in Translation Month in full swing, we’ve gathered ten essential books from our catalogue written and/or translated by women. While by no means an exhaustive list, we hope these selections will inspire you to read more books by women in translation. PS) As a bonus, we’re having a flash sale. That's right our
- [Get Ready For Hot Book Summer: A Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/get-ready-for-hot-book-summer-a-reading-list/) - It's that glorious time of year again to leave your worries behind and do more of what you really love (ahem, reading). Whether on vacation or a staycation, or relaxing at the beach or pool, summer is the perfect time to get lost in a book. And remember, a "beach read" is simply any book
- [Behind the Poem with Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-book-with-shannon-webb-campbell/) - Today, we invite Shannon Webb-Campbell to the blog to share the story behind the writing of “Her Eros Restored”, one of the poems in her latest collection Re: Wild Her. Read on for stories and insights form an artist residency in France where Shannon conceived of and wrote the poem! Take it away Shannon! (Shannon
- [elseship: an unrequited love: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/elseship-an-unrequited-love-the-playlist/) - elseship: an unrequited love: The Playlist is here! Tree Abraham has curated a playlist of songs that are in conversation with her latest memoir elseship: an unrequited love! We hope you enjoy! Mirrorball (Demo)— Everything But The Girl Tilted — Christine and the Queens Motion Sickness — Phoebe Bridgers Fire — Waxahatchee Brooklyn Bridge — Anaïs
- [No One Knows Us There: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/no-one-knows-us-there-the-playlist/) - No One Knows Us There: The Playlist is here! Jessica Bebenek has curated a playlist of songs that are in conversation with her debut poetry collection No One Knows Us There! We hope you enjoy! "These are the songs I was listening to while I wrote No One Knows Us There. They are the songs
- [The Literary Press Group Turns 50!](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-literary-press-group-turns-50/) - The Literary Press Group of Canada (LPG), of which Book*hug is a proud member, is celebrating 50 years of supporting Canadian literary publishers. From all of us at Book*hug Press, we want to wish the LPG a very Happy Birthday and thank them for all they do to support and advocate for independent Canadian-owned literary
- [I Remember Lights: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/i-remember-lights-the-playlist/) - I Remember Lights: The Playlist is here! Ben Ladouceur has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of his debut novel I Remember Lights. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here. "Here is the music that meant a lot to me as I wrote I Remember Lights: songs I studied to, played
- [The Fun Times Brigade: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-fun-times-brigade-the-playlist/) - The Fun Times Brigade: The Playlist is here! Lindsay Zier-Vogel has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her latest novel The Fun Times Brigade. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here. "There are so many songs in The Fun Times Brigade—some I made up, some are from my childhood (shout
- [Iris and the Dead: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/iris-and-the-dead-the-playlist/) - Iris and the Dead: The Playlist is here! Miranda Schreiber has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her debut novel Iris and the Dead. We hope you enjoy! Find the full Spotify playlist here. The Child is Gone—Fiona Apple Thinkin Bout You—Frank Ocean Mystery of Love—Sufjan Stevens The Hours—Beach House Sister—Angel Olsen
- [Thanks Dad: Eight Books for Father's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/thanks-dad-eight-books-for-fathers-day/) - Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 15, 2025. In celebration of this special day, we’ve assembled a list of eight books that either feature a prominent father figure, or portray nuanced and varied experiences of fatherhood. It’s important to note that Father’s Day can be complicated for many people for various reasons. If Father’s Day
- [Watchlist for I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur](https://bookhugpress.ca/watchlist-for-i-remember-lights-by-ben-ladouceur/) - Ben Ladouceur’s debut novel I Remember Lights is a historical snapshot of Queer life in Montréal during the sixties and seventies. Following the life of an unnamed gay man who moves to the Island in search of community and liberation, the book is set against the backdrop of Expo 67 and the infamous Truxx Raid of
- [Thanks Mom: Ten Books for Mother's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/thanks-mom-ten-books-for-mothers-day/) - Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 11, 2025. In celebration of this special day, we’ve assembled a list of ten books that provide insight into the complex and varied experiences of motherhood. We’re also hosting a 25% off sale from May 7-11, 2025. Looking for a gift for mom? We believe there’s no better gift
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-stephen-cain/) - We’re back with the final feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. We are closing things out with Stephen Cain! Stephen is one our oldest friends in the literary community, having gone to school with Jay and Hazel back in the day. We have published four of his groundbreaking poetry collections, including I
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-hana-shafi/) - We’re back with the eighth feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Hana Shafi! We have had the pleasure of publishing two collections of Hana's renowned illustrations and poetry including It Begins with the Body and People You Know, Places You've Been. We additionally published her book of essays Small,
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-shannon-webb-campbell/) - We’re back with the seventh feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Shannon Webb-Campbell! We have had the pleasure of publishing two previous collections by Shannon including I am a Body of Land and Lunar Tides. This year we are honoured to be publishing her latest collection of poems Re:
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Liz Worth](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-liz-worth/) - We’re back with the sixth feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Liz Worth ! We have been working with Liz for over a decade, and have had the pleasure of publishing three excellent poetry collections by her including No Work Finished Here, The Truth is Told Better This Way and Inside Every
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-shani-mootoo/) - We’re back with the fifth feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Shani Mootoo! Shani is one of the most acclaimed and prolific writers that we've had the pleasure of working with over the years. In addition to publishing her acclaimed novel, Polar Vortex, we have published two poetry collections
- [Humour Me: Translating Laughs From French to English by Neil Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/humour-me-translating-laughs-from-french-to-english-by-neil-smith/) - Today we invite Neil Smith, translator of You Crushed It, to the blog to share his thoughts on the process of translating humour from French to English! Read on for insights into how Neil overcame one of the biggest challenges faced by translators. Off to Neil! Humour Me: Translating Laughs from French to English by
- [Watchlist for Barbara by Joni Murphy](https://bookhugpress.ca/watchlist-for-barbara-by-joni-murphy/) - Joni Murphy's latest novel Barbara is in many ways an homage to cinema. Following the life and times of the fictional actress Barbara, the novel jumps from the sets of austere 1950s kitchen sink dramas to countercultural 1970s gothics. Naturally, we thought it would be a great idea to make a watch list for the book. Joni
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Zoe Whittall](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-zoe-whittall/) - We’re back with the fourth feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Zoe Whittall! Zoe is a prolific and beloved member of the literary community, and last year we had the pleasure of publishing her brilliant poetic memoir No Credit River. Without further ado, please enjoy “How to Fail as
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Jessica Bebenek](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-jessica-bebenek/) - We’re back with the third feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Jessica Bebenek! Jessica is a long time member of Book*hug's community, and we are very happy to finally be publishing her debut poetry collection No One Knows Us There, which is officially out today! Jessica's poems paint two
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-michael-v-smith/) - Welcome to National Poetry Month! To celebrate this special time of year, we'll feature a series of poet spotlights throughout April! Poetry is the backbone of our press and is near and dear to our hearts! To kick things off, we are shining a light on Michael V. Smith and sharing a poem from Queers
- [National Poetry Month Spotlight: Laila Malik](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-spotlight-laila-malik/) - We're back with the second feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Laila Malik! Laila is a singular and thoughtful voice in the poetry scene! We are honoured to have published her debut collection, archipelago, in 2023. Today, we're sharing Laila's poem "all your grandmothers have stopped cooking" from her
- [Behind the Chapter with Joni Murphy](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-chapter-with-joni-murphy/) - Today, we invite Joni Murphy to the blog to share thoughts on a chapter from her new novel Barbara! Read on for insights into the inspirations and questions that led Joni to draft a passage that begins on page 69 of her book. Take it away Joni! Page 69-82 Although I did not envision writing
- [In Bloom: Eight Books to Welcome Spring](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-bloom-eight-books-to-welcome-spring/) - Spring has officially sprung! To help usher in the season, we are proud to present In Bloom: Eight Books to Welcome Spring! From the more joyful aspects of baseball season and long bike rides, to darker feelings associated with climate anxiety and endless days of rain, these 8 books each capture the complex nature of
- [Resistance: Ten Books for International Women's Day and Women's History Month](https://bookhugpress.ca/resistance-nine-books-for-international-womens-day/) - Happy International Women's Day and Women's History Month! To celebrate, we've gathered a list of ten groundbreaking books by exceptionally talented women. Writing has always been a form of resistance, and these powerful books carry on that tradition by challenging notions of what it means to be a woman while embracing intersectionality and transcending literary
- [Book*hug Press is Proudly Canadian-Owned and Operated](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-press-is-proudly-canadian-owned-and-operated/) - Book*hug Press is proud to be a 100% Canadian-owned and operated independent publishing company. We're also proud to be part of Canada's vital independent publishing community. Like our independent publishing colleagues, we champion and support Canadian voices and stories. We also produce and manufacture all our books in Canada. What does this mean? It means
- [What the World Needs Now is Love: A Valentine's Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/what-the-world-needs-now-is-love-a-valentines-reading-list/) - It's no surprise that love is one of the themes most frequently explored in literature. For centuries, writers have expounded on matters of the heart, and readers have sought out love stories to better understand one of the most basic human desires. In these anxious times, the world needs love more than ever. These eight
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Shannon Bramer](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-shannon-bramer/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations wrap up today with one final Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on Shannon Bramer. We have had the pleasure of working with Shannon as a playwright, as well as a poet. In 2017 we published her poetry collection Precious Energy, and in 2020 we published her three-play-volume Trapsongs. Shannon is
- [Book*hug Wrapped 2024: Author's Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrapped-2024-authors-edition/) - To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2024 authors to recommend some titles that they’ve read recently and loved! We hope you enjoy their selections, and that some will end up on your reading lists for the holiday season. Jacob Wren, author
- [Book*hug Wrapped 2024: Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrapped-2024-staff-edition/) - Today, Book*hug Press is sharing some recommended reading from our staff! We can't wait for the holidays because it's time to finally read the books that have been piling up on our bedside tables! Please enjoy our picks, and we hope to see some of them end up on your holiday wish lists! Featuring selections
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-aimee-wall/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on Aimee Wall. We have had the pleasure of working with Aimee as an author, as well as a translator. In 2021 we published Aimee's debut novel We, Jane, but we have been working with her since 2016 when she first
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Kathryn Mockler](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-kathryn-mockler/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on Kathryn Mockler. Last year we had the pleasure of publishing Kathryn's brilliant hybrid collection Anecdotes. It has been so lovely developing a friendship with Kathryn while witnessing the well-deserved acclaim her book has garnered from prizes like the Tillium and Betsy
- [Back Where I Came From: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/back-where-i-came-from-the-playlist/) - Back Where I Came From: The Playlist is here! Back Where I Came From co-editors Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem have curated a playlist of songs that are in conversation with the essays compiled in their collection! We hope you enjoy! Hey! (feat. Meryem Saci) — NARCY Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins) — Shad Latinoamérica — Calle
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-julie-joosten/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on Julie Joosten. We have had the pleasure of publishing two poetry collections by Julie including Nought and Light Light. Julie is one our longest lasting author relationships, and a dear old friend. In our Q&A with Julie, she shares what
- [Behind the Poem with Liz Worth](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-poem-with-liz-worth/) - Today, we invite Liz Worth to the blog to share thoughts on a poem from her new collection, Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea! Read on for insights into the initial inspirations behind the poem entitled It's Not As Bad As It Looks! Off to Liz! Many of the poems in this collection were written
- [Sugaring Off: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/sugaring-off-the-playlist/) - Sugaring Off: The Playlist is here! Fanny britt has curated a playlist of songs that are in conversation with her recently translated novel Sugaring Off. She has also written a little introduction for the playlist. Take it away Fanny! "Writing has always been about music, for me. In order to picture a scene, I must
- [Behind the Chapter with Hanna Nordenhök](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-chapter-with-hanna-nordenhok/) - Today, we invite Hanna Nordenhök to the blog to share thoughts on a chapter from her newly translated novel, Caesaria! Read on for insights into the inspirations and questions that led Hanna to draft a particular scene on page 69 of her book. Off to Hanna! "Doctor Eldh took me into his care and kept
- [Toxemia: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/toxemia-the-playlist/) - Toxemia: The Playlist is here! Christine McNair has curated a playlist of songs that are in conversation with her latest collection Toxemia. She has also written a little introduction for the playlist. Take it away Christine! "I can’t listen to music when I write. Or rather, I can’t listen to anything with words in it. I’ll only
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Steven Zultanski](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-steven-zultanski/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on Steven Zultanski. We have had the pleasure of publishing three poetry collections by Steven including Agony, Cop Kisser, and Honestly. Steven is one of our longest running authors, and is an early example of our approach to publishing; nurturing long
- [Behind the Chapter with Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-chapter-with-jacob-wren/) - Today, we invite Jacob Wren to the blog to share thoughts on a chapter from his new novel, Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim! Read on for insights into the initial inspirations and questions that led Jacob to draft the first chapter of his book. Off to Jacob! Perhaps the first impulse for Dry
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Marta Balcewicz](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-marta-balcewicz/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on Marta Balcewicz. We recently had the pleasure of publishing Marta's debut novel Big Shadow. Marta was a writer who we had been keeping tabs on through her early publications in literary magazine, and one day we were lucky enough to
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-hana-shafi/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on he multi-talented Hana Shafi. We’ve had the great honour of publishing three books of writing and illustrations by Hana, including the poetry collections It Begins With the Body and People You Know, Place You've Been, as well as the inspiring
- [Book*hug Turns 20: Thirty Books for Twenty Years, Part Three of Three](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-turns-20-thirty-books-for-twenty-years-part-three-of-three/) - In case you missed the news, this year marks our twentieth anniversary. We’ve been celebrating this special milestone anniversary in various ways throughout the year. To help keep the celebrations going, our team has assembled a list of thirty of our favourite titles from the last twenty years. Today, we're pleased to bring you part
- [Book*hug Turns 20: Thirty Books for Twenty Years, Part Two of Three](https://bookhugpress.ca/twentieth-anniversary-reading-list-part-2-of-3/) - In case you missed the news, this year marks our twentieth anniversary. We’ve been celebrating this special milestone anniversary in various ways throughout the year. To help keep the celebrations going, our team has assembled a list of thirty of our favourite titles from the last twenty years. Today, we're pleased to bring you part
- [Book*hug Turns 20: Thirty Books for Twenty Years, Part One of Three](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-turns-20-thirty-books-for-twenty-years-part-one/) - In case you missed the news, this year marks our twentieth anniversary. We’ve been celebrating this special milestone anniversary in various ways throughout the year. To help keep the celebrations going, our team has assembled a list of thirty of our favourite titles from the last twenty years. Today, we're pleased to bring you part
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-shani-mootoo/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on the legendary Shani Mootoo. We’ve had the great honour of publishing three books by Shani, including the acclaimed poetry collections Oh Witness Dey! and Cane / Fire, as well as the Giller nominated novel Polar Vortex. Shani is such a wonderful author to
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-aaron-tucker/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on the one and only Aaron Tucker. We’ve had the great honour of publishing two poetry collections by Aaron, including Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp and Catalogue d'oiseaux. Aaron is a delight to work with and one of the
- [20th Anniversary Spotlight: Carellin Brooks](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-spotlight-carellin-brooks/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on the one and only Carellin Brooks. We've had the great honour of publishing two books by Carellin, including the multiple award-winning novel, One Hundred Days of Rain, and her debut poetry collection, Learned. Carellin is a delight to work with
- [Ten Books to Celebrate Women in Translation Month 2024](https://bookhugpress.ca/celebrating-women-in-translation-month-2024-reading-list-sale/) - August is Women in Translation Month. We are honoured to publish many amazing books written and translated by women from all over the world. To celebrate #WITMonth, we've assembled a list of ten must-read titles written and translated by women. Use it to inspire your summer (and beyond) reading or to organize a women in
- [Book*hug Recommends: Summer 2024 Reads, Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-recommends-summer-2024-reads-staff-edition/) - Today, we’re sharing summer reading recommendations from our incredible team members. These are books that we’ve either already read and loved, or books that we’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer! Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis The Heart is
- [Book*hug Recommends: Summer 2024 Reads, Author Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-recommends-summer-2024-reads-author-edition/) - Today, we’re sharing summer reading recommendations from some of our lovely authors. These are books that they’ve either already read and loved, or books that they’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer! Kate Cayley, author of How You Were Born and Lent Curiosities by Anne Fleming Berlin by Rory MacLean North by
- [20th Anniversary Author Spotlight: Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-author-spotlight-kate-cayley/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we’re shining a light on award-winning writer Kate Cayley. As longtime fans and champions of Kate's work, it's been our sincere honour to publish two books with her: the poetry collection Lent and a tenth-anniversary edition of her Trillium Award winning story collection How You
- [20th Anniversary Author Spotlight: Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-author-spotlight-beatriz-hausner/) - Our 20th-anniversary celebrations continue with another Author Spotlight interview. Today, we're shining a light on the very beloved Beatriz Hausner. We've had the great fortune to publish three wonderfully unique and brilliant poetry collections from Beatriz: Enter the Raccoon, Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, and She Who Lies Above. In this Q&A, Beatriz generously shares what it
- [20th Anniversary Author Spotlight Q&A: Nic Brewer](https://bookhugpress.ca/20th-anniversary-author-spotlight-qa-nic-brewer/) - Our 20th-Anniversary celebrations continue with another installment in our Author Spotlight series. Today, we're shining a light on Nic Brewer, author of the acclaimed novel Suture. Nic is also one of our favourite people. Nic graciously sat down with us to talk about what it means to be part of the Book*hug Press family, a
- [Hello Summer! Twelve Books to Dive Into This Summer](https://bookhugpress.ca/hello-summer-twelve-books-to-dive-into-this-summer/) - Hello Summer! It's that glorious time of year again to leave your worries behind and do more of what you love (ahem, reading). Whether on vacation or a staycation, or relaxing at the beach or pool, summer is the perfect time to disconnect and unwind with a great book. And remember a "beach read" is
- [Read With Pride: Twelve Books to Celebrate Pride Month](https://bookhugpress.ca/pride-reading-list-sale/) - Happy Pride to all!???? In honour of Pride Month, we have assembled a reading list featuring inspiring books by LGBTQIA2S+ authors. While this list is by no means exhaustive, here are twelve essential reads, ranging from literary fiction to memoir and lyrical essays to poetry, to add to your TBR pile during Pride Month and
- [20th Anniversary Author Spotlight Q&A: Lindsay Zier-Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-lindsay-zier-vogel/) - Today’s 20th Anniversary Author Spotlight is on Lindsay Zier-Vogel, author of Letters to Amelia, and the forthcoming novel The Fun Times Brigade (May 2025). B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? LZV: The Book*hug staff takes such incredible care of its authors. The entire process, from pre-acquisition meetings, to editorial
- [20th Anniversary Author Spotlight Q&;A: Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-sandra-ridley/) - Today’s 20th Anniversary Author Spotlight is on poet Sandra Ridley, author of The Counting House, Silvija, and Vixen, winner of the 2024 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? SR: 15 years ago, I bumped into Jay and Hazel in a parking lot near the Ottawa Small Press Book
- [Happy Book Birthday to Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-nauetakuan-a-silence-for-a-noise-by-natasha-kanape-fontaine-translated-by-howard-scott/) - Today, we're thrilled to welcome the release of Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott! Named a Most Anticipated Spring 2024 Fiction title from 49th Shelf, Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise is a timely, riveting story of reclamation, matriarchies, and the healing power of traditional teachings that affirms how
- [Books for Dad: Father's Day Sale and Gift Guide](https://bookhugpress.ca/fathers-day-reading-list-sale/) - Father's Day is just around the corner. In honour of dads everywhere, we've curated a list of recommended reads to help you pick the perfect book for the father figures in your life. From must-read novels to stand-out poetry and short story collections, here are some suggested books Dad will love. Besides, you can only
- [Happy Book Birthday to Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-holy-winter-by-maria-stepanova-translated-by-sasha-dugdale/) - Happy Publication Day to Holy Winter by internationally acclaimed author Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. This profoundly moving long poem, written from Stepanova’s dacha in the Russian countryside over the winter of 2020/2021, is perfect for fans of Sylvia Plath, Inger Christensen, and Anne Carson. Maria Stepanova was a highly influential figure in Moscow’s
- [Inspired by...with Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-with-daniel-sarah-karasik/) - Today, we’re sharing ten works that inspired Daniel Sarah Karasik in writing Disobedience. Read on to see how Karasik’s debut novel was influenced by works of speculative fiction, abolitionist writing, and more. Disobedience is a fairly plot-driven novel, and it's also an attempt to grapple with a set of political questions. How should we understand the relationship
- [Mother's Day Reading List + Sale!](https://bookhugpress.ca/mothers-day-reading-list-sale/) - Mother's Day is just around the corner. Nothing says love like a good book. So, this Mother’s Day, treat mom to the gift of reading! Save 25% off all available titles* from May 7 to 12, 2024. Simply use discount code MOTHERSDAY24 at checkout to redeem the 25% discount! *Excludes forthcoming releases and already discounted
- ["Limits as Points of Real Connection": In Conversation with Johanna Skibsrud](https://bookhugpress.ca/limits-as-points-of-real-connection-in-conversation-with-johanna-skibsrud/) - Join us today in welcoming our guest Johanna Skibsrud, author of Medium! Johanna sits down with Beatriz Hausner, author of She Who Lies Above, to answer some questions about her newest poetry collection. BH: You note, in the Preface, that Medium began and evolved over a period experienced as pregnancies, childbearing, and parenting, wisely equating
- ["My Offering as a Witness": In Conversation with Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-with-shani-mootoo/) - Today, Shani Mootoo sits down with Shazia Hafiz Ramji, who worked with Shani on her newest collection of poetry, Oh Witness Dey! SM: Thanks Shazia for these great questions. Before I respond, I’d like to say that the process of editing with you was exciting, as you knew, for the most part, the material I
- ["Where Fiction Comes In": In Conversation with Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/where-fiction-comes-in-in-conversation-with-kate-cayley/) - Today, Kate Cayley sits down with Alayna Munce to discuss the tenth-anniversary edition of her award-winning short story collection How You Were Born. AM: What kinds of things did you find yourself re-working in the original stories for this edition, and do you feel like those revisions had more to do with your craft developing
- [Author Spotlight Q&A: Rune Christiansen](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-rune-christiansen/) - For today’s Author Spotlight Q&A, we are featuring Rune Christiansen, author of Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest and The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life. B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? RC: I am very happy to be published by Book*hug. It is a privilege for me that
- ["My job is just to write what I need to write": In Conversation with Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/moving-into-prose-in-conversation-with-adrienne-gruber/) - Today, we're delighted to share a conversation with editor and writer Stacey May Fowles and Adrienne Gruber, author of Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes. Gruber's new lyrical essay collection subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight. In this wide-ranging interview, the two discuss the process of moving from writing
- [Happy Book Birthday to Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-disobedience-by-daniel-sarah-karasik/) - Today, we're thrilled to welcome Disobedience, the first novel by acclaimed writer Daniel Sarah Karasik. Disobedience is a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us. Happy Book Birthday to Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Already named a “Most Anticipated” Spring 2024
- [Inspired by...with Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-with-adrienne-gruber/) - Today, we’re excited to share eight works that inspired Adrienne Gruber in writing her new essay collection Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. Read on to see how Gruber's first work of nonfiction was influenced by films, podcasts, essays, and more! Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness was
- [Happy Book Birthday to These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-these-songs-i-know-by-heart-by-erin-brubacher/) - Today, we’re celebrating the release of These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher. Happy Book Birthday to Erin Brubacher's These Songs I Know By Heart! Brubacher is also the co-author of 7th Cousins: An Automythography, a personal and insightful work of documentary theatre written in collaboration with Christine Brubaker, which we published in 2019. From glowing
- [These Songs I Know By Heart: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/these-songs-i-know-by-heart-the-playlist/) - Today, we’re sharing Erin Brubacher’s playlist for her debut novel These Songs I Know By Heart! Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other beloveds show her
- [Author Spotlight Q&A: Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-adrienne-gruber/) - On today's Author Spotlight Q&A, we are featuring Adrienne Gruber, author of Buoyancy Control, Q&A, and Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? AG: Being part of the Book*hug family means that when you organize a book tour with your 9-month-old baby, Jay and Hazel will
- [Happy Book Birthday to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-monsters-martyrs-and-marionettes-by-adrienne-gruber/) - Today, we’re celebrating the release of Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber. Happy Book Birthday to Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber! This marks Gruber’s third Book*hug Press title—in addition to her two stunning poetry collections, Q&A and Buoyancy Control—and we’re delighted that 49th Shelf and CBC Books have named it a
- [Poetic Inspiration with Laila Malik](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-laila-malik/) - For the final installment of our “Poetic Inspiration” series, we're interviewing Laila Malik, author of archipelago! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of archipelago. Please also share how they influenced your book. LM: Audre Lorde's "A Litany for Survival." Before the era of smartphones,
- [Happy Book Birthday to Play by Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-play-by-jess-taylor/) - Today, we’re celebrating the release of Play by Jess Taylor. Happy Book Birthday to Play by Jess Taylor! This marks our third book with Taylor; she is also the author of the highly acclaimed short story collections Pauls and Just Pervs, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. Unsurprisingly, her first novel has generated much pre-publication
- [Poetic Inspiration with Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-hana-shafi/) - Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Hana Shafi, author of People You Know, Places You've Been! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of People You Know, Places You've Been. Please also share how they influenced your book. HS: The books Sex
- [Poetic Inspiration with Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-shani-mootoo/) - Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Shani Mootoo, author of Oh Witness Dey! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of Oh Witness Dey! Please also share how they influenced your book. SM: Amongst the several poets whose shoulders I have climbed and
- [Author Spotlight Q&A: Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-jess-taylor/) - Today, we're sharing another Author Spotlight Q&A. Our featured author is Jess Taylor, author of Pauls, Just Pervs, and Play. B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? JT: When I first signed with Book*hug for Pauls, I remember thinking: This press wants to grow. I could tell in our initial conversation
- [Author Spotlight Q&A: Kate Hargreaves](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-kate-hargreaves/) - We are so excited to share another Author Spotlight Q&A! Today we are spotlighting Kate Hargreaves, author of tend and Leak. B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? KH: As someone who has been part of the Book*hug family both as an author and on the other side of the industry
- [Play: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/play-the-playlist/) - Today, we’re sharing Jess Taylor’s playlist for her debut novel Play! Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn’t
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Elevator in Saigon by Thuận, translated by Nguyễn An Lý](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-elevator-in-saigon-by-thuan-translated-by-nguyen-an-ly/) - The final title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Elevator in Saigon by Thuận, translated by Nguyễn An Lý! From the author of Chinatown comes a personal and political, tragic and bitingly satirical, ethereal journey through Hanoi, Saigon, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. A Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother’s
- [Behind the Story with Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-story-with-kate-cayley/) - Today, Kate Cayley is taking us behind “The Summer the Neighbours Were Nazis,” a story from How You Were Born! I’m fond of the background of this story because I think it illustrates how most stories are cobbled together, a weird mixture of overheard conversations, small scraps, memories and of course pure imagination. But I’m
- [Poetic Inspiration with Kate Hargreaves](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-kate-hargreaves/) - Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Kate Hargreaves, author of tend! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of tend. Please also share how they influenced your book. KH: Brute by Emily Skaja - I picked this collection up on a whim
- [Poetic Inspiration with Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-sandra-ridley/) - We're back with another “Poetic Inspiration” feature! Joining us today is Sandra Ridley, author of Vixen! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of Vixen. Please also share how they influenced your book. SR: Christine McNair’s Charm (Book*hug Press). I always go to McNair’s books
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Nauetakuan, a Silence for a Noise by Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-nauetakuan-a-silence-for-a-noise-by-natasha-kanape-fontaine-translated-by-howard-scott/) - The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Nauetakuan, a Silence for a Noise by Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott! Monica, a young woman studying art history in Montreal, has lost touch with her Innu roots. When an exhibition unexpectedly articulates a deep, intergenerational wound, she begins to search for a stronger
- [Poetic Inspiration with Johanna Skibsrud](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-johanna-skibsrud/) - Next up in our “Poetic Inspiration” series is Johanna Skibsrud, author of Medium! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of Medium. Please also share how they influenced your book. JS: It occurs to me—in thinking about what poets and works of poetry influenced
- [Author Spotlight Q&A: Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-michael-v-smith/) - Today we are spotlighting Michael V. Smith, author of Queers Like Me and co-author of Body of Text! B*: What does being part of the Book*hug author family mean to you? MVS: Every step of the publishing process with Book*hug has been so relaxed, with both my books. Hazel and Jay are the sweetest of people; they
- [Poetic Inspiration with Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-hasan-namir/) - Next up in our "Poetic Inspiration" series is Hasan Namir, author of Umbilical Cord! B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the writing of Umbilical Cord. Please also share how they influenced your book. HN: One of my favourite poets who influenced my poetics
- [Poetic Inspiration with Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/poetic-inspiration-with-michael-v-smith/) - Introducing our "Poetic Inspiration" series! In honour of National Poetry Month, we've invited eight authors to share some poetic inspiration and advice. First up is an interview with Michael V. Smith, author of Queers Like Me. B*: Please share up to three poetry books or poets that are important to you, and helped influence the
- [Celebrating National Poetry Month!](https://bookhugpress.ca/celebrating-national-poetry-month/) - One of our favourite times of the year is here: National Poetry Month! Thirty days to celebrate the joy and delight of poetry. This year, our #NPM celebration is themed "For the Love of Poetry," and all month long we're having a sale! Save 20% off all poetry titles from April 2 to April 30,
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-disobedience-by-daniel-sarah-karasik/) - The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But
- [Happy Book Birthday to Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-oh-witness-dey-by-shani-mootoo/) - Today, we’re celebrating the release of Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo. Happy Book Birthday to Oh Witness Dey! by celebrated author Shani Mootoo. Already named a "Most Anticipated" spring poetry title from Quill & Quire and 49th Shelf, Mootoo's latest work has been generating a lot of pre-publication buzz. With this formally inventive and highly researched collection,
- [Author Spotlight Q&A: Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-spotlight-qa-hasan-namir/) - Today we are introducing a new author Q&A series! As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, we’ll be sharing spotlight features on our authors. We are endlessly thankful to our authors for trusting us with their words. First up is Hasan Namir, author of Umbilical Cord and War/Torn. We hope you enjoy! Follow along throughout
- [Happy Book Birthday to you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-you-by-chantal-neveu-translated-by-erin-moure/) - Today, we’re celebrating the publication of you by Chantal Neveu, translated from French by Erín Moure. Join us in welcoming this beautiful and heartrending long poem about a love affair in all its stages, written in precise, intimate, and lush language. Happy Book Birthday to you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure! In 2020, we published
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Play by Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-play-by-jess-taylor/) - We're thrilled to be sharing the next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Play by Jess Taylor! Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-these-songs-i-know-by-heart-by-erin-brubacher/) - The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher! Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other
- [Happy Book Birthday to How You Were Born by Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-how-you-were-born-by-kate-cayley/) - Today, we’re celebrating the publication of How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! Happy Book Birthday to How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! Originally published in 2014 by Pedlar Press, How You Were Born won the Trillium Book Award and was a finalist for a Governor General's Literary Award. The stories in this collection explore themes of queer
- ["A new way of being in the world": In Conversation with Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/interview-with-beatriz-hausner-author-of-she-who-lies-above/) - Join us today in welcoming our guest Beatriz Hausner, author of She Who Lies Above! She Who Lies Above is a book of verse and prose poems built around the figure of Hypatia, the Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician who lived in Alexandria in the fourth century A.D. Can you tell us more about Hypatia and
- [International Women's Day Reading List + Sale!](https://bookhugpress.ca/international-womens-day-reading-list/) - Happy International Women’s Day! Today (and every day) is a day to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about discrimination, inspire inclusivity, and take action to drive gender parity. At Book*hug Press, we champion fierce, daring, and powerful women's voices and encourage everyone to read more books by women in all genres. So, in honour of
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Nonfiction Preview: Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-nonfiction-preview-monsters-martyrs-and-marionettes-essays-on-motherhood-by-adrienne-gruber/) - The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Preview is Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber! Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory hybrid collection that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight. Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne
- [Happy Book Birthday to Medium by Johanna Skibsrud](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-medium-by-johanna-skibsrud/) - Today, we’re celebrating the publication of Medium by Johanna Skibsrud! Join us in welcoming this formally inventive and deeply imaginative reflection on women’s lives throughout history. Happy Book Birthday to Medium by Johanna Skibsrud! In this highly anticipated and riveting collection of poems, Skibsrud shares the lives and perspectives of women who—in their roles as biological,
- [Happy Book Birthday to Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, translated by Caroline Waight](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-blue-notes-by-anne-cathrine-bomann-translated-by-caroline-waight/) - Today, we're celebrating the publication of Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, translated from Danish by Caroline Waight! Happy Book Birthday to Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, translated by Caroline Waight! Join us in welcoming this captivating page-turner about prolonged grief disorder and the world of Big Pharma, with exciting twists and turns all along the
- [Inspired by...with Anne Cathrine Bomann](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-with-anne-cathrine-bomann/) - Today, we’re excited to be sharing seven works that inspired Anne Cathrine Bomann in writing Blue Notes! Read on to see how this newly translated medical thriller was influenced by classic films, scientific studies, and more! "The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement: Rationale and Description" by Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut To start
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-the-singularity-by-balsam-karam-translated-by-saskia-vogel/) - Today’s Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview features Balsam Karam’s The Singularity, translated by Saskia Vogel! Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden’s most exciting contemporary novelists. In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter’s name as she
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, translated by Caroline Waight](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-blue-notes-by-anne-cathrine-bomann-translated-by-caroline-waight/) - We're back with our second Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview, featuring Anne Cathrine Bomann’s Blue Notes, translated by Caroline Waight! How much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary medical thriller about loss, empathy, science, Big Pharma, and societal norms. A
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Medium by Johanna Skibsrud](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-poetry-preview-medium-by-johanna-skibsrud/) - Today we're sharing the first title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Medium by Johanna Skibsrud! From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud, Medium shares the lives and perspectives of women who—in their roles as biological, physical, or spiritual mediums—have helped to shape the course of history. Helen of Troy, Anne Boleyn, Shakuntala Devi, Hypatia of Alexandria, Marie
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-poetry-preview-you-by-chantal-neveu-translated-by-erin-moure/) - We're back with the second title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure! From poet Chantal Neveu, author of the award-winning collection This Radiant Life, comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love. you demonstrates with exceptional
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-poetry-preview-oh-witness-dey-by-shani-mootoo/) - Today we're sharing the third title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo! Shani Mootoo’s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: How You Were Born by Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-fiction-preview-how-you-were-born-by-kate-cayley/) - Today we’re excited to share the third title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley’s award-winning collection includes three new stories, a Foreword by Alayna Munce, and Preface by the author. A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking
- [Happy Book Birthday to The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-the-singularity-by-balsam-karam-translated-by-saskia-vogel/) - Today, we are so excited to be celebrating the publication of The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel! Happy Book Birthday to The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel! Today we welcome the first release from our Winter/Spring 2024 season. Marking Karam’s English language debut, The Singularity is a formally inventive,
- [Love Takes Many Forms: A Valentine's Day Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/love-takes-many-forms-a-valentines-day-reading-list/) - As much as love has been studied, questioned, and written about, there will always be unheard stories of love to share! These ten books honour love in its many forms, from familial and romantic love to the love of animals, nature, beauty, bicycles, and more. The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life by Rune Christiansen, translated
- [Winter/Spring 2024 Reveal](https://bookhugpress.ca/winter-spring-2024-reveal/) - Today, we are thrilled to reveal our Winter/Spring 2024 lineup, which features twelve exciting new works of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translated literature. Read on for all the details, including pre-order information! But first, 2024 marks an important milestone for Book*hug Press as we celebrate our twentieth anniversary of adventures in literary publishing, which
- [Sadie X: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/sadie-x-the-playlist/) - Sadie X: The Playlist is here! Clara Dupuis-Morency, author of Sadie X (translated by Aimee Wall) has curated a wonderful playlist to accompany her novel. She has also selected a short passage from Sadie X that can be read before, during, or after listening! "Headphones on, Sadie is deep in her microscope, inside a bubble
- [Personalized Wishlist Series 5!](https://bookhugpress.ca/personalized-wishlist-series-5/) - Today, we are sharing our final installment of the "Personalized Wishlist” series! For fans of short stories, we recommend Just Pervs by Jess Taylor! Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister’s horse farm. Four friends—fellow pervs—grow up and
- [Personalized Wishlist Series 2!](https://bookhugpress.ca/personalized-wishlist-series-2/) - The second set of recommendations in our “Personalized Wishlist” series is here! For fans of literature in translation, we recommend The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life by Rune Christiansen, translated by Kari Dickson! Winner of the Brage Prize, the most prestigious award in Norwegian Literature, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life is a quiet, beautiful exploration of
- [Personalized Wishlist Series 3!](https://bookhugpress.ca/personalized-wishlist-series-3/) - Today, we’re excited to be sharing another installment of our “Personalized Wishlist” series! For those who enjoy historical fiction, we recommend Junie by Chelene Knight! 1930s, Hogan’s Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz
- [Personalized Wishlist Series 4!](https://bookhugpress.ca/personalized-wishlist-series-4/) - We’re excited to be sharing our fourth "Personalized Wishlist" installment today! For fans of queer writing, we recommend Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest poetry collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. For fans
- [Book*hug Wrapped: Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrapped-staff-edition/) - Today, Book*hug Press is sharing some recommended reading! Here are some books that our staff have read, re-read and loved this year. Any of these books would make great gifts this holiday season! Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Fraud by
- [Book*hug Wrapped: Authors' Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-wrapped-authors-edition/) - To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2023 authors to recommend some titles that they’ve read recently and loved! Paola Ferrante, author of Her Body Among Animals The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan Pebble & Dove by Amy Jones Lesser Known Monsters
- [Book*hug Press Holiday Reads: A Winter Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-press-holiday-reads-a-winter-reading-list/) - Happy Holidays! Looking for the perfect book to indulge in this holiday season? Our winter reading list is filled with cozy, wintry, and holiday-themed books to keep you entertained all season long! People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the everyday connections we
- [Inspired by...with Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-with-hana-shafi/) - We’re so excited to be sharing some works that inspired Hana Shafi in writing People You Know, Places You've Been! The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien I know it's strange that a book of poetry about mundane, average, everyday experiences (and all the beauty and chaos within them) could be inspired by one
- [Introducing the Personalized Wishlist Series!](https://bookhugpress.ca/introducing-the-personalized-wishlist-series/) - Not sure what to read this holiday season? Have a friend with a particular taste in books? No worries, Book*hug is back with more wonderful recommendations this year! Choose your own adventure with our Personalized Wishlist Series and find a book that suits your literary preferences. For fans of the coming-of-age novel we recommend Big
- [People You Know, Places You've Been: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/people-you-know-places-youve-been-the-playlist/) - Today, we’re sharing Hana Shafi’s playlist for People You Know, Places You’ve Been! Join us in listening to this wonderful playlist curated by Hana Shafi, author of People You Know, Places You’ve Been, Small, Broke and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World and It Begins With the Body! Hana selected these songs to accompany
- [Behind the Poem with Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-poem-with-beatriz-hausner/) - Today, Beatriz Hausner is taking us behind “Everyday Goddesses,” a poem from She Who Lies Above! “Everyday Goddesses” is a distilling of a longer poem inspired by the work of surrealist artist Virginia Tentindo. I initially conceived of it as a kind of incantation in the manner of the ancient elegiac texts. It incorporates elements
- [Queers Like Me: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-playlist-with-michael-v-smith/) - Today, we're thrilled to share Michael V. Smith's musical accompaniment to Queers Like Me! Join us in listening to this wonderful playlist curated by Michael V. Smith, author of Queers Like Me! These songs compliment Michael’s new book in a playful manner; take a listen before, during, or after reading, or if you’re just looking
- [As the Andes Disappeared: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/as-the-andes-disappeared-the-playlist/) - Today, we’re thrilled to share a new playlist to accompany As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson translated by Anita Anand! Join us in listening to this wonderful playlist that includes songs from the novel, and songs that inspired Caroline's writing! Take a listen before, during, or after reading, or if you’re just looking have
- [Happy Book Birthday to As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson translated by Anita Anand!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-as-the-andes-disappeared-by-caroline-dawson-translated-by-anita-anand/) - Today, we are excited to announce the release of As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson translated by Anita Anand! Happy Book Birthday to As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, beautifully translated by Anita Anand! Anand is also the author of the award-winning novel, A Convergence of Solitudes. This autobiographical debut novel was a runaway
- [Behind the Poem with Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-poem-with-sandra-ridley/) - Today, Sandra Ridley is taking us behind “Torchlight,” a poem from Vixen! Torchlight, as in an illumination in the dark. As experienced by the one who holds the torch? Or as experienced by the one caught in its light? The centered visual element of each page of this sequence in Vixen is the beam of
- [Happy Book Birthday to She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-she-who-lies-above-by-beatriz-hausner/) - Today, we are excited to announce the release of She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner! Happy Book Birthday to She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner. In these poems, Hausner merges poetry, fiction, and meditative prose to create a layered world inhabited by characters both historical and imagined. She Who Lies Above is Annie Lennox
- [Spooky Reads: A Halloween Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/spooky-reads-a-halloween-reading-list/) - Happy Halloween! This year we are sharing this group of unsettling, spooky reads to add to your fright-filled reading lists. The works range in how they dismay or frighten, but there’s no doubt you’ll find something that guides a chill up your spine when you crack one of theirs. The following five books cause discomfort
- [Happy Book Birthday to Vixen by Sandra Ridley!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-vixen-by-sandra-ridley/) - We are excited to announce the release of Vixen by Sandra Ridley! Happy Book Birthday to Vixen by Sandra Ridley! This week, we are thrilled to welcome another incredible poetry book from our fall catalogue: Vixen by award-winning author Sandra Ridley. Her latest collection is the result of a haunting chance encounter with a fox
- [Inspired By... with Kathryn Mockler](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-with-kathryn-mockler/) - Today we're excited to be sharing ten works that inspired Kathryn Mockler in writing Anecdotes! These are ten works that I engaged with while writing my story collection Anecdotes. It is difficult to select just ten as there are many more, but these are some of the writers, musicians, filmmakers whose work I turned to
- [Behind the Story with Kathryn Mockler](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-story-with-kathryn-mockler/) - Today, Kathryn Mockler is taking us behind "I Won't Clean the Tub," a story from Anecdotes! The second section of Anecdotes is a series of linked autofictional coming-of-age stories. When the #MeToo Movement went viral in 2017, some survivors of abuse and sexual assault were sharing lists about all the times they had been harassed, assaulted,
- [Happy Book Birthday to People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi and Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-people-you-know-places-youve-been-by-hana-shafi-and-queers-like-me-by-michael-v-smith/) - Today, we celebrate the release of People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi and Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! Happy Book Birthday to People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi and Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! People You Know, Places You’ve Been, the latest illustrated poetry collection
- [Happy Book Birthday to Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency translated by Aimee Wall!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-sadie-x-by-clara-dupuis-morency-translated-by-aimee-wall/) - We are excited to announce the release of Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency translated by Aimee Wall! Happy Book Birthday to Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency translated by Aimee Wall! We’re thrilled to welcome this timely and poignant novel from Clara Dupuis-Morency, brilliantly translated from French by Aimee Wall. We’ve had the fortune of publishing
- [Inspired By... with Paola Ferrante](https://bookhugpress.ca/inspired-by-with-paola-ferrante/) - Today we're excited to be sharing nine works that inspired Paola Ferrante in writing Her Body Among Animals! Her Body Among Animals was born out of a mash-up of pop culture and literary influences. Horror and sci-fi movies and series, fairy tales and fabulist writing have all left their marks on this collection. I consider these
- [Happy Book Birthday to The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-the-legend-of-baraffo-by-moez-surani/) - Today, we're so excited to be celebrating the release of The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani! Happy Book Birthday to The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani! We’re so thrilled to be welcoming this novel from Moez Surani, a beautiful fable that we can’t wait for readers to meet. Surani has four previously published collections of poetry,
- [Happy Book Birthday to Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-her-body-among-animals-by-paola-ferrante/) - Today we are so excited to be celebrating the publication of Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante! Happy Book Birthday to Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante. We're elated to welcome this incredible collection from Paola Ferrante, a fiction debut that has already garnered impressive buzz and attention from Quill & Quire, The Globe
- [Happy Book Birthday to Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-anecdotes-by-kathryn-mockler/) - Today we’re back with another exciting new release: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler, a most mnticipated Fall release by the Toronto Star, Frieze, 49th Shelf, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Happy Book Birthday to Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler! Already the author of five books of poetry, Anecdotes marks Mockler’s long-awaited fiction debut. We’re thrilled for readers to meet
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Britt](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-britt/) - Hello there! My name is Britt. I am so excited to have joined the Book*hug Press team as a Publishing Intern this Fall. For me, this co-op term is the second last semester before graduating from Sheridan College's Honours Bachelor of Creative Writing and Publishing program. I am beyond excited to grow and gain knowledge
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Hannah](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-hannah/) - Hi everyone, my name is Hannah and I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the Book*hug Press team as a publishing intern! I had a full-circle moment the other day in the office. Seeing a copy of A by Andre Alexis on one of our bookshelves sent me back to my first year of university.
- [Happy Book Birthday to My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-my-work-by-olga-ravn-translated-by-jennifer-russell-and-sophia-hersi-smith/) - Today we are so excited to be celebrating the publication of My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith! Happy Book Birthday to My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith! First published in Denmark, My Work won the Politiken Literature Prize. We’re thrilled to
- [Celebrate Women in Translation (with a sale)!](https://bookhugpress.ca/celebrate-women-in-translation-with-a-sale/) - Happy Women in Translation Month! To celebrate all of the incredible translated works written and translated by women, we're having a 25% off sale. The sale applies to all titles in our Literature in Translation Series (excluding all forthcoming Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 titles). We've also put together a list of some brilliant translated
- [Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, translated by Anita Anand](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-fiction-preview-as-the-andes-disappeared-by-caroline-dawson-translated-by-anita-anand/) - Today’s Fall Fiction Preview features As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, translated by Anita Anand! Caroline is seven when her family flees Pinochet’s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won’t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new Barbie at her side, her mother preserving
- [Fall 2023 Poetry Preview: She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-poetry-preview-she-who-lies-above-by-beatriz-hausner/) - Today’s Fall Poetry Preview features She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner! In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icon’s friend and former student, Synesius of Cyrene, and scribing Hypatia’s replies in
- [Fall 2023 Poetry Preview: Vixen by Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-poetry-preview-vixen-by-sandra-ridley/) - Today's Fall Poetry Preview features Vixen by Sandra Ridley! Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence. Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious,
- [Fall 2023 Poetry Preview: Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-poetry-preview-queers-like-me-by-michael-v-smith/) - Today's Fall Poetry Previews features Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares
- [BookThug's 2014 Year In Review](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-2014-year-in-review/) - Like the two-headed god Janus, who sees what’s ahead and what's behind at the same time, we're taking a moment this early January to look back at our big exciting year of books, fairs, festivals, anniversaries, etc., and to and talk a bit about what’s next for the small press called BookThug. One brand new thing we can't wait
- [The Short List: 8 Recommended Short Story Collections](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-short-list-8-recommended-story-collections/) - May is Short Story Month. We're big readers of the short story form: Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, George Saunders, Angela Carter and Jhumpa Lahiri are just a few of our favourite short story writers. We're also proud to publish several authors who write fresh, vibrant and compelling short fiction. As a wrap up
- [One Book That Altered My Writing: An Author Roundtable](https://bookhugpress.ca/one-book-that-altered-my-writing-an-author-roundtable/) - At Book*hug, we love to celebrate not only the work of our wonderful authors, but also the long tradition of artists and writers that helped inspire many of the books we publish today. For this edition of our Author Roundtable, Book*hug reached out to a number of our writers and asked them to select one
- [BookThug's Best Reads of 2015: The Editors' Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-best-reads-of-2015-the-editors-edition/) - In this edition of BookThug's Best Reads, we turn things over to our editors and staff to reflect on their year in reading. Here are our favourite books we read in 2015, with contributions from Jay MillAR and Hazel Millar, Malcolm Sutton, Phil Hall, Ruth Zuchter, Emma Hunter, Shankari Mano, and even our resident Junior
- [BookThug's Best Reads 2014 (Authors' Edition)](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-best-reads-2014-authors-edition/) - In deference to what has become a robust tradition on the internet, the gang at BookThug is proud to present a festive bundle of end-of-the-year book lists! In today's episode, BookThug Allstars Marianne Apostolides, Kate Hargreaves, Erin Mouré, Sandra Ridley, Julie Joosten, and Jacob Wren share what they've been reading in 2014. Their lists are
- [Shedding Light on Lost Female Intellectuals: An Interview with Light Light’s Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/shedding-light-on-lost-female-intellectualsan-interview-with-light-lights-julie-joosten/) - On this, the eve of the announcement of the winner this year’s Governor General’s Award, BookThug's intrepid intern Rick Meier sat down to talk with Julie Joosten about her shortlisted collection Light Light. Read on, and learn about Anna Atkins and other lesser-known voices in a history of science more than three hundred years long
- [BookThug’s Best Reads 2014 (Editors’ Edition)](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-best-reads-2014-editors-edition/) - Even as end-of-the-year booklists become absurdly thick on the ground (on the internet), BookThug elects, unapologetically, to add water to the sea. This time we move into the general's tent, as BookThug’s distinguished editorial team share their best reads of 2014. If you're interested in reading like an editor (or like an intern), read on!
- [Book*hugs Recommend: Summer Reading, The Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-recommend-summer-reading-the-editors-edition/) - Book*hug's crack team of publishing professionals share their summer reading recommendations. ❧ Jay MillAr Co-publisher My Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015) From Arsenal Pulp Press: Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this,
- [Spring poetry PREVIEW: a Q&A with Jimmy McInnes, author of A More Perfect [](https://bookhugpress.ca/qa-with-jimmy-mcinnes-a-more-perfect/) - On March 18, 2008, at the height of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama delivered his famous “A More Perfect Union” speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was an iconic moment in an already memorable campaign that had seen the meteoric rise of then-candidate Obama from bright
- [Spring fiction PREVIEW: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-spring-fiction-preview-one-hundred-days-of-rain-by-carellin-brooks/) - Carellin Brooks’s luminous new novel One Hundred Days of Rain opens with its narrator in the throes of a catastrophic break up. The book chronicles the year that follows, as she weathers the aftermath and moves on. Set in the profoundly rainy city of Vancouver, each chapter of the book is a rainy day, or a
- [Spring fiction PREVIEW: Steve McCaffery's Adventures in Plunderland](https://bookhugpress.ca/steve-mccafferys-adventures-in-plunderland/) - It’s February, you guys. Here at BookThug HQ in Toronto, Canadian identity has been asserting itself (predictably) in the form of The Weather. All over North America, rodent-based fortune telling rituals have been performed and the inevitable has been announced: that winter will end and spring will come. Which means that an entire spring season of
- [Spring poetry PREVIEW: guest blogger Pearl Pirie on her new book the pet radish, shrunken + two poems](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-guest-blogger-pearl-pirie-on-her-new-book-the-pet-radish-shrunken-two-poems/) - This week, the BookThug blog welcomes guest blogger Pearl Pirie, poet and author of the forthcoming the pet radish, shrunken (available March 5th from BookThug). the pet radish, shrunken is the third full-length collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie. Sly and virtuosic, Pirie's new collection speaks in a range of styles and voices: From a military
- [Spring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-endangered-hydrocarbons/) - Selected by BookThug's poetry editor Phil Hall, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poems Endangered Hydrocarbons developed out of the author’s experience as an employee of Shell Canada, a subsidiary of the multinational Shell Oil Ltd. and one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies. It was while working at Shell that Battler found herself utterly bombarded by
- [Book*hug Press Beach Reads: A Summer Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-press-beach-reads-a-summer-reading-list/) - Still looking for that perfect beach read? Maybe an alternative beach read is what you're looking for! We've got you covered for the rest of this summer season. Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to
- [Book*hug Recommends: Staff Summer Reads](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-recommends-staff-summer-reads/) - Today, we're sharing summer reading recommendations from our incredible team members. These are books that we’ve either already read and loved, or books that we’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer! Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher I am Homeless if This is not My Home by Lorrie Moore Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz August
- [Book*hug Recommends: Author Summer Reads](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-recommends-author-summer-reads/) - Today, we're sharing summer reading recommendations from some of our lovely authors. These are books that they’ve either already read and loved, or books that they’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer! Marta Balcewicz, author of Big Shadow Out of the Sugar Factory by Dorothee Elmiger, translated by Megan Ewing Brian by Jeremy Cooper
- [Fall 2023 Poetry Preview: People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-poetry-preview-people-you-know-places-youve-been-by-hana-shafi/) - Today's Fall Poetry Preview features People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi! The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the everyday connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful
- [Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: Sadie X](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-fiction-preview-sadie-x/) - Today's Fall Fiction Preview features Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency, translated by Aimee Wall! Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she
- [Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-fiction-preview-the-legend-of-baraffo-by-moez-surani/) - Today's Fall Fiction Preview features Moez Surani's The Legend of Baraffo! In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and another building is set ablaze, tensions mount among the citizens
- [Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-fiction-preview-anecdotes-by-kathryn-mockler/) - Today’s Fall 2023 Fiction Preview features Kathryn Mockler's Anecdotes! With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse. Absurdist flash fictions in “The Boy is Dead” depict characters such as a park that hates hippies, squirrels, and unhappy parents; a woman lamenting
- [Fall 2023 Fiction Preview: Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2023-fiction-preview-her-body-among-animals-by-paola-ferrante/) - Today’s Fall 2023 Fiction Preview features Paola Ferrante's Her Body Among Animals! In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture, and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world “among animals,” where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions. A sentient sex robot goes against her programming;
- [Happy Book Birthday to The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life by Rune Christiansen, translated by Kari Dickson!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-the-loneliness-in-lydia-ernemans-life-by-rune-christiansen-translated-by-kari-dickson/) - Today marks the final release of our Spring 2023 Season: a wonderful translation by Kari Dickson of Rune Christiansen’s The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life! We are overjoyed to be sharing this special novel with an English language audience. Happy Book Birthday to The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life! This is the second work by
- [Happy Book Birthday to Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-big-shadow-by-marta-balcewicz/) - Today, we are so excited to celebrate the publication of Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel, Big Shadow! A ‘Most Anticipated’ Spring 2023 release from 49th Shelf, Big Shadow is an affecting novel of psychological nuance and dark humour, starring Judy, a precocious teenager, throughout her summer-length encounter with an imprudent ex-musician. Bex Frankeberger of Books Are
- [Short Story Month: Anthologies](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-anthologies/) - The last two entries in our Short Story Month series are actually anthologies! The Unpublished City, Volume 1, Edited by Dionne Brand, and Write Across Canada: An Anthology of Emerging Writers, Curated by Joseph Kertes and Geoffrey Taylor, offer up a bevy of writing talent, perfect for getting an introduction to new writers and a
- [Short Story Month: Rare Find](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-rare-find/) - The next entry in our Short Story Month series hails the rare find written by a celebrated author. A prolific writer between the years 1911-1961, H.D.—a.k.a. Hilda Doolittle—was primarily known as a poet, but she also wrote a great deal of prose. In fact, her writing career began with the publication of children’s stories in
- [Short Story Month: Borges to Barthelme](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-borges-to-barthelme/) - Our Short Story Month continues with two highly immersive, darkly humorous collections that exist in the eye of the storm: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler and The Lightning of Possible Storms by Jonathan Ball. In a style of writing that manages to be both surreal and prophetic, Mockler and Ball build worlds out of the darkest
- ["The things we can get up to when no one is watching": In Conversation with Marta Balcewicz](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-things-we-can-get-up-to-when-no-one-is-watching-in-conversation-with-marta-balcewicz/) - Today, we're delighted to be in conversation with Marta Balcewicz, author of Big Shadow. An affecting novel of psychological nuance and dark humour, Big Shadow explores the costs of self-deceit, fandom, and tenuous ambitions, exposing the lies we’ll tell ourselves and the promises we’ll make to edge closer to what we want… or what we think we
- [Big Shadow: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/big-shadow-the-playlist/) - Today’s book playlist is by Marta Balcewicz, to pair with her debut novel Big Shadow, an affecting coming-of-age novel of psychological nuance and dark humour. In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself—especially as the artist she wants
- [Short Story Month: For the Fans](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-fanpersons/) - Have you ever read something that hit you so hard that you needed to immediately seek out and get your hands on anything else written by that author? Same. And lucky for us, we've had the pleasure of publishing both of her current collections of short stories. This Short Story Month post is dedicated to
- [Mother's Day Sale + Reading List!](https://bookhugpress.ca/mothers-day-sale-reading-list-2/) - Are you still looking for the perfect gift for mom? We believe there's no better gift than a book. So, this Mother’s Day treat mom to the gift of reading! Save 25% off all available titles from May 10 to May 14 at 11:59 pm. Use code MOTHERS23 at checkout. Discount applies to print books,
- [Short Story Month: Feminist Literature](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-feminist-literature/) - The next two collections in our Short Story Month series remind us that "women are powerful and dangerous" (Lorde). Written about the everyday issues women face - from sexual identity to sexual assault, mental health to an imbalance in relationships - in a way that is anything but ordinary, Her Body Among Animals by Paola
- [Short Story Month: Novel-in-Stories](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-novel-in-stories/) - The next two collections in our Short Story Month series could fall under the category of the "novel-in-stories." The Handsome Man by Brad Casey, and We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie, are collections that offer a novel-like narrative by using linked stories to follow a single protagonist. Navigating new landscapes and confronting a
- [Short Story Month: Generational Epics](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-generational-epics/) - The next collection in our Short Story Month series is a generational narrative so epic it had to have a post of its own. Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas is a collection of linked stories that takes you on a novel-like journey of a lifetime - several, actually- as each story captures a different history
- [Short Story Month: Second Glance](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-second-glance/) - Our Short Story Month series continues by celebrating those stories that make us think twice about what we've read - those stories that sit marinating in our minds, and like a fine wine, open up more with time. The Third Person by Emily Anglin, and The Jokes by Stephen Thomas, are collections that contain exactly those sorts
- [Short Story Month: People and Places](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-people-and-places/) - May is Short Story Month! In honour of that, we've put together a series that shares some of our favourite short story collections with you - a guide to our Book*hug gallery, if you will. Whether you're a connoisseur of the art form or just starting to get familiar, this guide will help you find
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Breath](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-as-breath/) - How can poetry set you free? The final offering in our National Poetry month series is an intimate reflection from Laila Malik. As she speaks on breath, survival, and possibility, her response brings us full circle, back into Lorde's essay, and the freeing power of poetry. “In 1991, six years after Audre Lorde wrote "Poetry
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Wonder](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-as-wonder/) - How can poetry set you free? Slide down our National Poetry Month series rabbit hole with Shani Mootoo's phenomenal response to the query: "Discussions about, and answers to big questions, are - for most of us - a quick and easy click away. How sweet to slide down those rabbit holes. I find that the
- ["A constant movement, an ongoing development": In Conversation with Laila Malik](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-constant-movement-an-ongoing-development-in-conversation-with-laila-malik/) - Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with Laila Malik, author of archipelago. Malik’s lyrical poems intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between Canada, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and Kashmir, they subvert conventions of lineage, instead drawing on the truths of
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Amplification](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-as-amplification/) - How can poetry set you free? Adebe DeRango-Adem continues our National Poetry Month series with a message on how poetry's voice can move us to necessary action. Read her far more profound explanation below: "As I write, I can’t help but read aloud, think about how the lines I am writing will sound—their sonic potential.
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Parallel Universe](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-river/) - How can poetry set you free? Can poetry be a safe space? An act of protest? What about both? For our National Poetry Month query, River Halen gets personal about poetry as a way for marginalized ideas to bloom and find their publics: "I said a version of this elsewhere once, but I think it
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Awareness](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-as-awareness/) - How can poetry set you free? Author Kate Cayley answers our National Poetry Month series question with a query of her own: can poetry's request for our acute attention be a pathway to a world unseen? Read what she has to say: “I’m not sure how to answer the question of how, or whether, poetry
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Empowerment](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-as-self-reflection/) - How can poetry set you free? Our National Poetry Month series continues with a response by Therese Estacion on how poetry reflects the most vulnerable parts of our humanity and returns power to our sense of being: “ 'Our poems formulate the implications of ourselves, what we fear within and dare make real...our fears, our
- [Happy Book Birthday to Places Like These by Lauren Carter!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-places-like-these-by-lauren-carter/) - Today, we are delighted to celebrate the release of award-winning writer Lauren Carter's moving short story collection, Places Like These! A 2023 Fiction Pick from CBC Books, 49th Shelf, and Winnipeg Free Press, Places Like These is a poignant exploration of the longings that sit just beneath the surface of daily routines and close relationships.
- [Meet Our New Sales and Events Coordinator: Reid](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-new-sales-and-events-coordinator-reid/) - Hello everyone! My name is Reid, and I am thrilled to be the new Sales and Events Coordinator at Book*hug Press! I have been working with the press since January, collaborating with our authors to organize book launches and events and corresponding with bookstores around the country to raise awareness of our new season of
- [Meet Our Newest Team Member: Sabrina](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-team-member-sabrina/) - Hello readers! My name is Sabrina, and I'm so excited to be joining the Book*hug team as the Marketing and Communications Coordinator. In 2019, I graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in English and Cinema Studies, and I've been involved in books ever since. I've worked for Penguin Random House Canada, interned
- [Behind the Poem with Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-poem-with-kate-cayley/) - Today, we've invited Kate Cayley to the blog to share thoughts on a poem from Lent. The poem, entitled "Of Rats and Floods," is aptly inspired by an actual rat infestation and flood in her home. But Cayley explains how the initial distress around the infestation changed into empathy for the creatures who have been
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry and Solidarity](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-and-solidarity/) - How can poetry set you free? The next voice in our National Poetry Month series belongs to Daniel Sarah Karasik. They astutely examine the way in which poetry can be an instrument of solidarity. Here is more on their conversation of poetry's ability to connect us: "Writing and reading poetry are, for me, most often
- [Happy Book Birthday to archipelago by Laila Malik!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-archipelago-by-laila-malik/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of Laila Malik's stunning debut poetry collection, archipelago! A 'Most Anticipated' Spring 2023 Poetry pick from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, archipelago meditates on girlhood, loss, and love as they play out across different continents and shifting emotional and political terrains. Quill and Quire writes, in archipelago "home is constantly in a state of flux. It exists in a
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Miriam](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-miriam/) - Hello friends! My name is Miriam and I have been welcomed on as a Spring placement at Book*hug! It is my final step in completing the Centennial College Publishing Program certificate that I began last September, as well as a longstanding dream of mine. I have always loved being part of the process that brings
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as Therapy](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-poetry-as-therapy/) - How can poetry set you free? The second response in our National Poetry Month series comes from author Hasan Namir who explores freedom from a lens of self-discovery and self-actualization. Enjoy: "Poetry is my therapy. Poetry has always been the vessel of my emotions. When I was 16, whenever I felt sad I would always
- [National Poetry Month: Poetry as a Tonic](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-shannon-webb-campbell-2/) - How can poetry set you free? Shannon Webb-Campbell starts off our National Poetry Month series with mesmerizing words on the magic of poems. Prepare to be swept away: "Poetry is a vital tonic – it invigorates minerals in the blood and stimulates the brain like oxygen. In her 1985 essay Audre Lorde writes, 'For women,
- [archipelago: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/archipelago-the-playlist/) - Today’s book playlist was made by Laila Malik to complement her debut poetry collection, archipelago. The poems in archipelago intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between Canada, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa and Kashmir, they subvert conventions of lineage, instead drawing on the truths of
- [National Poetry Month: Audre is Lorde](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-audre-is-lorde/) - Happy National Poetry Month everyone! In 1985, Audre Lorde published her well-known essay on poetry, “Poetry is Not a Luxury.” Short but powerful, the essay speaks on the act of writing poetry as a challenge to traditional narratives and a means of amplifying new and alternative perspectives, particularly of those that have been historically silenced.
- [Happy Book Birthday to Lent by Kate Cayley!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-lent-by-kate-cayley/) - April is National Poetry Month, and we are delighted to kick things off with the release of Lent by Kate Cayley! Read on to learn all about this wonderful collection, which explores domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in conversations, and
- [Happy Book Birthday to Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-crying-wolf-by-eden-boudreau/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of Eden Boudreau’s powerful debut memoir, Crying Wolf. Read on to learn all about this brave new work, and for information about the upcoming launch! Happy Book Birthday to Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau! A ‘Most Anticipated’ nonfiction pick from 49th Shelf and Lambda Literary, Crying Wolf is a
- [Spring 2023 Fiction Preview: The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life by Rune Christiansen, translated by Kari Dickson](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-fiction-preview-the-loneliness-in-lydia-ernemans-life-by-rune-christiansen-translated-by-kari-dickson/) - Today’s Spring 2023 Fiction Preview features the latest title in our Literature in Translation Series, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life by Rune Christiansen, translated by Kari Dickson. Winner of the Brage Prize, the most prestigious award in Norwegian Literature, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life is a quiet, beautiful exploration of solitude and how we relate
- [Spring 2023 Poetry Preview: archipelago by Laila Malik](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-poetry-preview-archipelago-by-laila-malik/) - Next up in our Spring 2023 Preview Series comes archipelago, Laila Malik's lyrical debut poetry collection, which traces fragments of family, becoming and unbecoming against the shifting shorelines of loss, multigenerational migration, and (un)belonging. Malik’s lyrical poems intertwine histories of exile and ecological devastation. Beginning with a coming of age in the 80s and 90s between
- [International Women's Day: Must Reads!](https://bookhugpress.ca/international-womens-day-must-reads/) - Today is International Women’s Day, and we are celebrating with a list of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books featuring strong female voices and protagonists. These books traverse topics as diverse as motherhood, activism, coming-of-age, loving, losing, and confronting life’s enduring banalities, tragedies, and joys. Without further ado: Featuring: Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau tend by
- [Happy Book Birthday to Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-heating-the-outdoors-by-marie-andree-gill-translated-by-kristen-renee-miller/) - Today marks the first release from our Spring 2023 season! Introducing Heating the Outdoors—an irreverent and transcendent new poetry collection by Ilnu Nation member Marie-Andrée Gill, translated from French by Kristen Renee Miller. Happy Book Birthday to Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller! We are overjoyed to be putting out a
- [Spring 2023 Fiction Preview: Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-fiction-preview-big-shadow-by-marta-balcewicz/) - Today’s Spring 2023 Fiction Preview features Marta Balcewicz's debut novel, Big Shadow! Set in an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Big Shadow follows Judy, an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself—especially as the artist she wants to be. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed
- [Spring 2023 Fiction Preview: Places Like These by Lauren Carter](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-fiction-preview-places-like-these-by-lauren-carter/) - Next up in our Spring 2023 Preview series is Lauren Carter's Places Like These, a psychologically complex and astute short story collection which plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us human—love, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness
- [Pal-entines Day: A Friendship Reading List  ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/pal-entines-day-a-friendship-reading-list-💘/) - “What is a friend?" Aristotle writes, but "a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” This Valentine's Day, we are celebrating the true love of friendship, turning to books which meditate on this oft-skipped over but endlessly interesting form of affection. In honour of our pals, our comrades, our book clubs, and our besties, we present
- [Spring 2023 Poetry Preview: Lent by Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-poetry-preview-lent-by-kate-cayley/) - This week’s Spring 2023 Season Preview spotlights Lent by award-winning writer Kate Cayley. In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent is built from this tension, exploring domestic
- [Spring 2023 Nonfiction Preview: Crying Wolf by Eden Boudreau](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-nonfiction-preview-crying-wolf-by-eden-boudreau/) - TW: references to sexual violence and self harm. Today's Spring 2023 Preview, features an excerpt from Eden Boudreau’s powerful debut memoir, Crying Wolf. After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn’t her husband, who she had agreed to go on a
- [Spring 2022 Poetry Preview: Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2022-poetry-preview-heating-the-outdoors-by-marie-andree-gill-translated-by-kristen-renee-miller/) - Today we are kicking off our Spring 2023 Previews with Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller! In these micropoems, writing and love are acts of decolonial resilience. Rooted in Nitassinan, the territory and ancestral home of the Ilnu Nation, they echo the Ilnu oral tradition in Gill’s interrogation and reclamation of
- [Spring 2023 Season Reveal!](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2023-season-reveal/) - Happy New Year! Today, we are revealing our Spring 2023 lineup, featuring seven remarkable fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles! Read on for all the details, including on sale dates and pre-order information, plus an announcement about FREE SHIPPING on website orders! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyTIW0ndcbI Spring 2023 Fiction Places Like These by Lauren Carter Literary Fiction
- [Book*hugs Wrapped: Books We Loved This Year, the Authors’ Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhugs-wrapped-books-we-loved-this-year-the-authors-edition/) - This month, we asked our 2022 authors that most prized question: what were your favourite reads of the year? We are now pleased to present Book*hugs Wrapped, The Authors' Edition! Read on for a list of books that moved, excited, changed, engaged, amused, bemused, and ultimately dazzled Book*hug authors this year: Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar
- [Book*hugs Wrapped: Books We Loved This Year, the Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhugs-wrapped-books-we-loved-this-year-the-staff-edition/) - This next instalment of Book*hugs Wrapped features staff picks! Read on for a list of the books we've been reading, re-reading, loving, and recommending to anyone who will listen! Without further ado, an *incomplete* list of books we kept close in 2022: Hazel Millar, Co-publisher - Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen - A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
- [Vox Humana: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/vox-humana-the-playlist/) - Today’s book playlist is by Adebe DeRango-Adem, to pair with her new poetry collection, Vox Humana! Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary experiments with word
- ["Pleasure is a job sometimes": In Conversation with River Halen](https://bookhugpress.ca/pleasure-is-a-job-sometimes-in-conversation-with-river-halen/) - Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with River Halen, author of Dream Rooms. Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Deeply queer and trans not only in its content but in its
- [The Animals: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-animals-the-playlist/) - Today’s book playlist was made by Cary Fagan to compliment his new novel, The Animals. A realist work with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a surprising, funny, and thought-provoking story that explores the nature of relationships faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one’s place in society . .
- ["No straight lines in nature": In Conversation with Alessandra Naccarato](https://bookhugpress.ca/no-straight-lines-in-nature-in-conversation-with-alessandra-naccarato/) - Today, we are thrilled to be in conversation with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene. Imminent Domains invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to
- [Happy Book Birthday to Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated by Marina Allemano!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-hunger-heart-by-karen-fastrup-translated-by-marina-allemano/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of Hunger Heart, by Karen Fastrup, translated by Marina Allemano! This bold work of autofiction immerses us in the alienations of a breakdown and hospitalization, as well as the courage and joy necessary for recovery. Happy Book Birthday to Hunger Heartby Karen Fastrup, translated from the Danish by Marina
- [Learned: The Official Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/learned-the-official-playlist/) - Next up in our book playlist series, we are joined by Carellin Brooks with with tunes for her poetry collection Learned! Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations
- [Happy Book Birthday to Dissonance Engine by David Dowker!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-dissonance-engine-by-david-dowker/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of David Dowker's Dissonance Engine! Read on to learn all about this astute new collection of poetry. Happy publication day to Dissonance Engine by David Dowker! Selected as a Fall 2022 Poetry Pick from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, Dissonance Engine is a brilliant exploration of the mechanics of
- [Behind the Chapter with Cary Fagan](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-chapter-with-cary-fagan/) - Today, we invite Cary Fagan to the blog to share thoughts on a chapter from his new novel, The Animals! Read on for insights on a moment in the book where the protagonist Dorn takes time to reflect— taking him out of—and eventually returning him to—the plot. Off to Cary! When I was asked to
- [Happy Book Birthday to Cyclettes by Tree Abraham!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-cyclettes-by-tree-abraham/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of Tree Abraham's Cyclettes! Read on to learn all about this brilliant hybrid work of text and image, and for information about upcoming launches in Ottawa and Toronto! What does it mean to be happy, to be sated, to live a meaningful life? Is wanderlust curable? Is depression? These
- [Happy Book Birthday to Participation by Anna Moschovakis!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-participation-by-anna-moschovakis/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of Participation by Anna Moschovakis! In this literary-dystopian novel, environmental disaster strikes and binaries and certainties dissolve as members of two virtual reading groups reshape their lives, romances, and reality itself. Read on to learn more about the book! Happy book birthday to Participation by writer and International Booker Prize
- [Imminent Domains: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/imminent-domains-the-playlist/) - Today's book playlist was crafted by Alessandra Naccarato for her essay collection, Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene. Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern
- [Happy Book Birthday to Learned by Carellin Brooks!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-learned-by-carellin-brooks/) - Today is the official release date of Carellin Brooks's saucy debut poetry collection, Learned! Read on to learn all about this new poetry title and its upcoming launch in Vancouver. Happy Book Birthday to Learned by Carellin Brooks! Featured on 'Most Anticipated' Fall 2022 Poetry lists from 49th Shelf and CBC Books, this follow up to Brooks's award-winning debut novel One
- [Nontraditional Scares: A Halloween Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/nontraditional-scares-a-halloween-reading-list/) - Happy Halloween! This year we're sharing a list of books that offer up nontraditional chills and thrills! We're skipping the ghosts and ghouls and heading straight for the too-real scares of late capitalism, the horror of petty neighbourly disputes, and media spectacle. The following seven books play with the freaky and the foreboding. They explore
- ["Elevate the splits and stains": In Conversation with Kate Hargreaves](https://bookhugpress.ca/elevate-the-splits-and-stains-in-conversation-with-kate-hargreaves/) - Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with Kate Hargreaves, author of tend. A much anticipated follow-up to Leak, tend is a visceral and playful poetry collection which explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture.
- [Happy Book Birthday to Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-imminent-domains-reckoning-with-the-anthropocene-by-alessandra-naccarato/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato! This urgent collection of essays takes on our relationship to the natural world in a time of accelerating climate change. Read on to learn more about the book and upcoming events and launches in Toronto, Vancouver, and online. Happy
- ["Creatures like ourselves": In Conversation with Cary Fagan](https://bookhugpress.ca/creatures-like-ourselves-in-conversation-with-cary-fagan/) - Today, we are featuring our interview with award-winning author Cary Fagan about his new novel, The Animals. A realist novel with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a surprising, funny, and thought-provoking story that explores the nature of relationships faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one’s place in
- [tend: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/tend-the-playlist/) - Next up in our official book playlist series, we welcome Kate Hargreaves's tend! Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. It explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. Find Hargreaves's tend playlist below, or
- ["To choose against silence": In Conversation with Adebe DeRango-Adem](https://bookhugpress.ca/to-choose-against-silence-in-conversation-with-adebe-derango-adem/) - Today, we are in conversation with Adebe DeRango-Adem, author of Vox Humana, a collection of poetry driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the
- [Happy Book Birthday to Dream Rooms by River Halen!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-dream-rooms-by-river-halen/) - Today marks the official release of Dream Rooms by River Halen! Read on to learn all about this genre-bending addition to our Essais Series. Happy Book Birthday to Dream Rooms by River Halen! Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms charts the shifting terrains of gender and genre. This Most Anticipated Poetry Pick from 49th Shelf unravels a worldview,
- [Happy Book Birthday to tend by Kate Hargreaves!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-tend-by-kate-hargreaves/) - Today, we are celebrating the release of tend by Kate Hargreaves! Read on to learn all about this witty collection of poems which finds beauty and solace in the ordinary. Happy Book Birthday to tend by Kate Hargreaves! A much-anticipated follow up to her poetry collection Leak, and a Fall 2022 Poetry Selection from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, tend explores the small pleasures and discomforts
- [Happy Book Birthday to The Animals by Cary Fagan!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-the-animals-by-cary-fagan/) - Today, we celebrate the release of award-winning author Cary Fagan’s new novel, The Animals! Read on to learn all about this playful and profound work of literary fiction and for information about the launch this Friday! Happy Book Birthday to The Animals by Cary Fagan! A Most Anticipated Fall 2022 Fiction pick from CBC Books
- [Junie: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/junie-the-playlist/) - This week in our official book playlist series, we welcome Chelene Knight’s Junie! 1930s, Hogan’s Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. "Despite poverty and the unkindness of
- [Fall 2022 Fiction Preview: Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated by Marina Allemano](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-fiction-preview-hunger-heart-by-karen-fastrup-translated-by-marina-allemano/) - Our final Preview for the Fall 2022 Season features Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano. Hunger Heart is a sensual, profound book about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery by one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary writers. In 2009, we published Fastrup's beautiful novel, Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses (translated by
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Sana](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-sana/) - Hello booklovers! My name is Sana, and I am Book*hugs newest intern. I started working at Book*hug during my placement for my MA program, and I'm so delighted to continue working here! My time at Book*hug has been great, and I am having so much fun learning new things about the publishing industry, specifically independent
- [Fall 2022 Poetry Preview: Dissonance Engine by David Dowker](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-poetry-preview-dissonance-engine-by-david-dowker/) - Today's Fall 2022 Preview highlights David Dowker's new, multilayered poetry collection, Dissonance Engine. Amidst poems about loss, melancholy, love, connection, longing and the natural world, Dowker scours the dissonance engine of the media spectacle, to stare into gnostic estrangement and question the “time-sensitive material” of language. "Dissonance Engine is a fantastic machine: part gears, part
- [Fall 2022 Nonfiction Preview: Cyclettes by Tree Abraham](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-nonfiction-preview-cyclettes-by-tree-abraham/) - For today's Fall 2022 Preview, we are sharing an excerpt from Tree Abraham's genre bending non-fiction work, Cyclettes! Part travelogue, part philosophical musing, Tree Abraham’s work probes the millennial experience, asking what a young life can be when unshackled from traditional role expectations yet still living in consistent economic and environmental uncertainty. Text is interspersed between
- [Happy Book Birthday to Junie by Chelene Knight!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-junie-by-chelene-knight/) - Today, we celebrate the release of Junie by Chelene Knight! Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated debut novel from one of the Rising Stars of CanLit and for news on a series of exciting upcoming events featuring Chelene Knight! Happy Book Birthday to Junie by Chelene Knight! This work of literary historical fiction
- [Fall 2022 Fiction Preview: Participation by Anna Moschovakis](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-fiction-preview-participation-by-anna-moschovakis/) - Today's Fall 2022 Preview features Participation by Anna Moschovakis! In this latest novel from Moschovakis, acclaimed writer, and winning translator of the 2020 International Booker Prize, two reading groups, Love and Anti-Love, convene digitally amidst political upheaval and undefined environmental catastrophe. Participation offers a prescient look at remote communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants
- [Happy Book Birthday to Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-vox-humana-by-adebe-derango-adem-🎉/) - Today, we celebrate the release of Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem! Read on to learn all about this remarkable poetry collection. Happy book birthday to Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem! This first title in our Fall 2022 season and Most Anticipated Fall 2022 Poetry pick from 49th Shelf is driven by a sense of urgency to probe the ethics of
- [Fall 2022 Nonfiction Preview: Imminent Domains by Alessandra Naccarato](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-nonfiction-preview-imminent-domains-by-alessandra-naccarato/) - Next in our Fall 2022 Preview Series is Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato. This collection of lyrical essays—the latest addition to our Essais Series—traces the veins of harm, memory, and meaning amongst ecosystems, and invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. “A
- [Book*hugs Recommend: Summertime Reads](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-recommends-summertime-reads/) - Today we're pleased to share the latest edition of Book*hugs Recommend, featuring a round-up of our staff's favourite summer reads. These are the books that we have been reading and enjoying this summer. Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà Either/Or by Elif Batuman Pure Colour by Shelia
- [Fall 2022 Poetry Preview: Learned by Carellin Brooks](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-poetry-preview-learned-by-carellin-brooks/) - This week's Fall 2022 Preview spotlights Learned by Carellin Brooks. Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations of mind and body. In these poems, the speaker trembles on the verge of
- [Fall 2022 Nonfiction Preview: Dream Rooms by River Halen](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-nonfiction-preview-dream-rooms-by-river-halen/) - Today's Fall 2022 Preview features River Halen's Dream Rooms. Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, this newest addition to our Essais Series is about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as
- [Fall 2022 Poetry Preview: Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-poetry-preview-vox-humana-by-adebe-derango-adem/) - Today we are launching our Fall 2022 Preview Series with our season opener, Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem! Vox Humana (Latin for “human voice”) is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary
- [WIT Month 2022: Chantal Neveu and Erín Moure on This Radiant Life](https://bookhugpress.ca/wit-month-2022-chantal-neveu-and-erin-moure-on-this-radiant-life/) - Next in our Translation Duos Series, we are featuring Chantal Neveu and Erín Moure on the Governor General's Literary Award-winning poetry translation, This Radiant Life. Drawing on the lexicons of science, art, and revolution, This Radiant Life forges intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. In its brevity
- [Fall 2022 Poetry Preview: tend by Kate Hargreaves](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-poetry-preview-tend-by-kate-hargreaves/) - Next up in our Fall 2022 Preview Series comes tend, a visceral and playful sophomore poetry collection from Kate Hargreaves which reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. tend explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. These poems
- [Tribute to Stan Dragland](https://bookhugpress.ca/tribute-to-stan-dragland/) - We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of beloved Canadian novelist, essayist, and poet Stan Dragland. An author and friend of the press, Stan was many things to so many of us: the founder of Brick Books and Brick Literary Journal, a member of the Order of Canada, professor emeritus at the University
- [Fall 2022 Fiction Preview: The Animals by Cary Fagan](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-fiction-preview-the-animals-by-cary-fagan/) - For this week's Fall 2022 Fiction preview, we are featuring The Animals, a whimsical novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan. In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving
- [WIT Month 2022: Anne Cathrine Bomann and Caroline Waight on Agatha](https://bookhugpress.ca/wit-month-2022-anne-cathrine-bomann-and-caroline-waight-on-agatha/) - It's August⁠, and that means Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) is here at last! Throughout the month, we will be speaking with author-translator duos, getting the lowdown on what it means to collaborate on a translation, how it feels to find oneself in a new language and what one discovers in and between languages. First
- [Fall 2022 Fiction Preview: Junie by Chelene Knight](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-fiction-preview-junie-by-chelene-knight/) - Next up in our Fall 2022 Preview Series is Junie by Chelene Knight! 1930s, Hogan’s Alley—a thriving Black and immigrant community located in Vancouver’s East End. Junie is a creative, observant child who moves to the alley with her mother, Maddie: a jazz singer with a growing alcohol dependency. As Junie finds adulthood, exploring her artistic
- [Book*hugs Recommend: Summer 2016 Reads , The Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-recommend-summer-2016-reads-the-editors-edition/) - At Book*hug Press HQ, we spend much of our days reading, and thinking and talking about, books. But this isn't enough for us. We always have several books on the go or waiting in our "to read" pile. So, if you’re looking for your next summer read, here are some recommendations from some of the
- [On the Road with Book*hug Press: A Summertime Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-the-road-with-bookhug-press-a-summertime-reading-list/) - As July rolls on and many of us are making travel plans once again, it's time to consider that perennially delightful question of what to read over summer vacation. We are sharing some of our top picks—books that chart journeys big and small; hosting characters whose migrations across cities, countries, and emotional terrains are variously
- ["Deep down, they need their solitude": In Conversation with Anita Anand](https://bookhugpress.ca/deep-down-they-need-their-solitude-in-conversation-with-anita-anand/) - Today, we are in conversation with Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes, a novel which deftly weaves together the stories of six characters, and the cultural and political contexts which define them. Teenage lovers Sunil and Hima defy taboos to come together as India divides in two. They traverse the world to Montreal
- [Fall 2022 Season Reveal](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2022-season-reveal/) - Today, we are excited to reveal Book*hug's upcoming Fall 2022 season! Our lineup includes eleven fantastic titles we’re sure you’ll love. Read on for all the details, including on sale dates, pre-order information, and news about our Fall 2022 pre-order sale, which begins today! FALL 2022 FICTION Junie by Chelene Knight Literary Fiction | Historical
- [Read Across Canada + Canada Day Sale!  ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/read-across-canada-canada-day-sale-🍁/) - Canada Day Long Weekend Sale! Save 25% off all available titles from July 1 to 3, 2022 at 11:59 pm. Use code CANADA2022 at checkout. *Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases. SHOP NOW _________________________________________________________________________________________ ???? Read Across Canada! ???? Travel Canada this long weekend with some homegrown literature! This curated list of books rooted in cities and places is an ode to the
- [Ten Books the Dad in Your Life Will Love](https://bookhugpress.ca/ten-books-the-dad-in-your-life-will-love/) - With Father's Day just around the corner, we've put together a list of books that the Dad in your life will love. This eclectic selection of literary and poetic titles—vast in both meaning and mileage—take us to outer-space and back, and through questions of how to live, love, and connect. Many of these books feature
- [Behind the Poem with Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/behind-the-poem-with-daniel-sarah-karasik/) - Today, Daniel Sarah Karasik takes us behind their poem "trans-socialist." They highlight some of the ideas and politics at play, conceptualizing the poem as method rather than a booksellers' category and revelling in binding ambiguities. Now handing it off to Karasik: “The implicit understanding is that if you’re committed, if you’re too overtly political, then
- [Pride Month Sale and Book Recommendations! ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/pride-month-sale-and-book-recommendations-🌈/) - June is Pride Month and we at Book*hug are celebrating! ❤️???????????????????? Save 25% off all available titles from June 15 to June 30, 2022, at 11:59pm. Use code PRIDE2022 at checkout. *Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases. Read with Pride! ????️‍???? Don’t miss this essential Pride Month reading!
- ["Something hopeful. Something profound": In Conversation with Team Venus](https://bookhugpress.ca/something-hopeful-something-profound-in-conversation-with-team-venus/) - Next up In Conversation is a roundtable discussion between the affectionately titled "Team Venus": author Mona Høvring and translators Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin of Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born. Set in a hotel, high up in a mountain village, Because Venus follows two sisters as they
- [Happy Book Birthday to Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen ✨](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-remnants-by-celine-huyghebaert-translated-by-aleshia-jensen-✨/) - Today, we welcome our final release of the Spring 2022 season, Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen. Read on to learn all about this award-winning addition to our Literature in Translation Series and for information about the upcoming launch. Happy Book Birthday to Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen! Eagerly anticipated
- [A Convergence of Solitudes: the Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-convergence-of-solitudes-the-playlist/) - Next up in our official book playlist series, we welcome Anita Anand's A Convergence of Solitudes—a novel with music at its very heart. Needless to say, we were excited for this one! “A Convergence of Solitudes is an ambitious novel structured as a double album and focusing on two different families. Over the decades that
- [On Design with Gareth Lind](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-design-with-gareth-lind/) - After a brief hiatus, we are back with our On Design series, today featuring the wonderful Gareth Lind. Lind's designs are famously sleek, a confluence of clean lines and classical typeface, perfectly embodying the books they cloak. A number of our poetry titles—The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe, Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir, Plenitude
- [Bystander: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/bystander-the-playlist/) - For the next instalment of our Book Playlist series, we welcome Mike Steeves to the blog with a collection of songs to accompany his novel Bystander. Narrated by a professionally successful but socially bankrupt anti-hero, Bystander excoriates the contingency of contemporary morality and, at a time of growing isolation, asks us to examine what it means
- [Lunar Tides Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/lunar-tides-mood-board/) - Today, we're bringing back our mood board series with a feature on Shannon Webb-Campbell's stunning poetry collection Lunar Tides. The following poster—comprised of family photos, Maritime scenes, waves, and moons—captures some of this collection's dusky atmosphere. It gestures to Webb-Campbell's fascination with the way grieving a loved one can be at once destabilizing, a pandoras
- [Happy Book Birthday to A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand ???? ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-a-convergence-of-solitudes-by-anita-anand-🎉-🎉/) - Today, we celebrate the release of A Convergence of Solitudes by award-winning author Anita Anand! Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated debut novel and for information about tonight's launch! Happy book birthday to A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand! This debut novel, which has already appeared on a series of ‘Most Anticipated’ reading lists—including
- ["A certain extremity": In Conversation with Mike Steeves](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-certain-extremity-in-conversation-with-mike-steeves/) - Today, we are in conversation with Mike Steeves, author of Bystander, a novel which goes deep into the psychology of its bewildered protagonist, Peter Simons, as he faces a moral crisis. Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment, thanks to his job at a multinational company. So when he returns after
- [Mother's Day Sale + Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/mothers-day-sale-reading-list/) - This Mother's Day, treat Mom to the gift of reading! Save 25% off all available titles from May 3 to May 8, 2022, at 11:59pm. Use code MOTHERSDAY22 at checkout. *Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases. ❧ Want to take advantage of the sale, but not sure
- [Happy Book Birthday to Good Mom on Paper, edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-good-mom-on-paper-edited-by-stacey-may-fowles-and-jen-sookfong-lee-🎉/) - Today, we celebrate the release of Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee! Read on to learn all about this remarkable anthology which delves into the wonderful and oftentimes challenging relationship between motherhood and the creative life. Happy Book Birthday to Good Mom on Paper:
- [In the Mood for Poetry: Wonder](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-the-mood-for-poetry-wonder/) - As National Poetry Month concludes, we are sharing one more In the Mood for Poetry reading list, this time, on the theme of wonder. Poetry, at its best, is a kind of encounter. As these poets meet the world with openness and receptivity, it begins to unfold in all its many qualities. The following collections
- [Spring 2022 Fiction Preview: Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, translated by Aleshia Jensen](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2022-fiction-preview-remnants-by-celine-huyghebaert-translated-by-aleshia-jensen/) - Today, we are sharing the final instalment of our Spring 2022 Preview series, highlighting Remnants, the Governor General's Literary Award-winning novel by Céline Huyghebaert, soon to be published in translation by Aleshia Jensen. Remnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a father’s life and sudden
- ["We are all born into a story": In Conversation with Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/we-are-all-born-into-a-story-in-conversation-with-shannon-webb-campbell/) - Today, we pick up our In Conversation series with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of the poetry collection Lunar Tides. Expansive and enveloping, Lunar Tides asks, “Who am I in relation to the moon?” These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. Written from a mixed Mi’kmaq/settler perspective, Lunar Tides
- [In the Mood for Poetry: Grief](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-the-mood-for-poetry-grief/) - Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption. This statement from Sandra Ridley's Silvija could serve as a thesis for today's In the Mood for Poetry feature, which highlights collections that
- ["Flirtatious, irreverent, and curious": In Conversation with Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/flirtatious-irreverent-and-curious-in-conversation-with-daniel-sarah-karasik/) - This Spring, we return with our In Conversation series, where we speak in detail with recently published Book*hug authors about their books and the ideas—notions, whims, feelings, inspirations, memories, actions—behind them. First up is Daniel Sarah Karasik on their new poetry collection, Plenitude. Plenitude is profoundly shaped by Karasik’s experience of grassroots social and political advocacy.
- [The Art of Poetry Roundtable, Part Two](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-art-of-poetry-roundtable-part-two/) - As we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month, we return with Part Two of the Art of Poetry Roundtable! This time, Therese Estacion (author of Phantompains), Talya Rubin (author of Iceland Is Melting and So Are You), and R. Kolewe (author of The Absence of Zero and Afterletters) are sharing the scoop on their creative practices
- [Happy Book Birthday to Bystander by Mike Steeves ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-bystander-by-mike-steeves-🎉/) - Today, we celebrate the release of Bystander by Mike Steeves! Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated sophomore novel, which goes deep into the psychology of its bewildered protagonist as he faces a moral crisis. Happy Book Birthday to Bystander by Mike Steeves! We’re excited for readers to meet this much anticipated follow
- [In the Mood for Poetry: Nostalgia](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-the-mood-for-poetry-nostalgia/) - Feeling sentimental? Wistful? Next up in our In the Mood for Poetry series is nostalgia. Lean into the feeling with these poetry collections that map personal and geographical histories, and draw odes to moments lost, longed for, and resurrected. These books are filled with memory traps. They guide author and reader alike through the bittersweet
- [Lunar Tides: The Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/lunar-tides-the-playlist/) - This Spring, we return with our Official Book Playlist series, which invites authors to create playlists for their books, and offers them a space to draw parallels between the two. Shannon Webb-Campbell starts us off with a list of coastal and moonlit tunes to accompany her new poetry book Lunar Tides—a collection which originates from
- [The Art of Poetry Roundtable, Part One](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-art-of-poetry-roundtable-part-one/) - Poetry, like any art form, is a practice. To be a poet means mastering a certain discipline, finding one's vocation and siphoning inspiration into form. This National Poetry Month we are inviting Book*hug poets to the blog to discuss their creative practice and some of the beliefs and influences that animate their final works. Read
- [In the Mood For Poetry: Joy](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-the-mood-for-poetry-joy/) - 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 series. Every Friday we will share mood-themed reading lists so you can indulge your highs and lows along with some of our favourite poets. To
- [Happy Book Birthday to Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 imperative and the undecided, imagining the future of transness, abolition, and collective social movement. Read on to learn all about this urgent new work! Happy
- [Happy Book Birthday to Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-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, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. Read on to learn all about this moving collection of poems and for information on the upcoming double
- [Spring 2022 Fiction Preview: A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-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, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec. Sunil and Hima, teenage lovers, bravely defy taboos in pre-Partition India to come together as their
- [Spring 2022 Nonfiction Preview: Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, Edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-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 goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. Good Mom on Paper discloses the often-invisible challenges of
- [Happy Book Birthday to Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo  ???? ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-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, drawing on autobiography and the shifting geographies of Mootoo’s life. Read on to learn all about this immersive new work and for information on upcoming
- [Celebrating International Women’s Day: Writers on the Women Who Shaped Them](https://bookhugpress.ca/celebrating-international-womens-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 work. Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Bahar Orang, Nic Brewer, Shannon Webb-Campbell, Therese Estacion, and Meghan Bell share a variety of thoughts and book recommendations. From classics by
- [Happy Book Birthday to The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-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. A finalist for the 2021 International Booker Prize and currently longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award novel , The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage
- [Spring 2022 Fiction Preview: Bystander by Mike Steeves](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-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 debut novel Giving Up. “I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death.” Peter Simons doesn’t spend
- [Spring 2022 Poetry Preview: Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-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 and political advocacy, the poems in Plenitude are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory
- [Spring 2022 Poetry Preview: Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2022-poetry-preview-lunar-tides-by-shannon-webb-campbell/) - The next instalment of our Spring 2022 Preview series features Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Lunar Tides, an expansive and enveloping poetry collection which explores the primordial relationships between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon, and long, deep familial relationships that are both personal and
- [Six Black Authors To Read Now](https://bookhugpress.ca/six-black-authors-to-read-now/) - In celebration of Black History Month and the many black voices that have shaped Canadian literature now and always, we have put together a list of six must-read black writers! These writers take us from the halls of literary obsession to the neighbourhoods of East Vancouver, to Toronto's side streets, and back again. Read on
- [Many Shades of Love: A Valentine's Day Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/it-must-be-love-a-valentines-day-reading-list/) - Many a thing has been written, spoken, and sung about love. This Valentine's Day we join the chorus with a stellar recommended reading list! The following twelve works of prose and poetry honour true love in its many shades and forms, exploring various categories of affection from passionate affairs—which inflame, inspire, and sometimes implode; to
- [Spring 2022 Poetry Preview: Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2022-poetry-preview-cane-fire-by-shani-mootoo/) - Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series comes internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo's Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves
- [Spring 2022 Fiction Preview: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2022-fiction-preview-the-employees-by-olga-ravn-translated-by-martin-aitken/) - To curb the mid-winter chill, we are kicking off our Spring 2022 Preview series! Over the coming weeks we will be introducing readers to the cast of authors and titles on our Spring 2022 list, and sharing exclusive excerpts to give a sense of what's to come. First up is The Employees by Olga Ravn,
- [On Design with Tree Abraham](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-design-with-tree-abraham/) - Today, we welcome Tree Abraham to the Book*hug blog for the next instalment of our On Design interview series! Abraham is a book designer, illustrator, and writer. And one need only take a brief peek at her work to get an immediate sense of her visual dexterity, flare for colour, and love of all things
- [Stranger than Fiction: In Conversation with Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/stranger-than-fiction-in-conversation-with-jacob-wren/) - Jacob Wren's latest book, Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART, is a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. It tells the story of the interdisciplinary performance group PME-ART and their ongoing endeavour to make a new kind of highly collaborative theatre dedicated to the fragile but essential act of “being yourself
- [Feature Friday: Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART by Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-authenticity-is-a-feeling-my-life-in-pme-art-by-jacob-wren/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are excited to bring you an excerpt from Jacob Wren's Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART, a compelling hybrid of history, memoir, and performance theory. Written, among other things, to celebrate PME-ART’s twentieth anniversary, the book begins when Jacob Wren meets Sylvie Lachance and Richard
- [On Design with Ingrid Paulson](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-design-with-ingrid-paulson/) - Next up in our On Design series, we're joined by the talented Ingrid Paulson. Paulson is an experienced cover designer; a master of interior design and layout; and a recipient of an AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Award and an Alcuin Award for Excellence in Book Design. On top of running her own design studio, she
- [Book Deals: Announcing New Acquisitions](https://bookhugpress.ca/book-deals-announcing-new-acquisitions/) - New book deals! Book*hug Press has acquired new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles to be published in 2023 and 2024, by Jess Taylor, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Anne Cathrine Bomann, Caroline Dawson, Lisa Robertson, Kate Cayley, Sandra Ridley, and Chantal Neveu & Erin Moure. FICTION Book*hug Press has acquired North American rights to Jess Taylor's PLAY.
- [On Design with Malcolm Sutton](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-design-with-malcolm-sutton/) - "All [stories] have one thing in common," says Chip Kidd, "They all need to look like something." In celebration of the visual aspects of book publishing, and the exciting world of cover art, we're launching our first ever On Design series. Throughout spring 2022 we'll be inviting book designers to the blog to share thoughts
- [Book*hug Press Named Benetech Global Certified Accessible Publisher](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-press-named-benetech-global-certified-accessible-publisher/) - We are delighted to share that Book*hug Press is now a Benetech Global Certified Accessible™ (GCA) publisher. Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good, issues this accreditation to those publishers who produce EPUBs that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support the needs of all readers, including those
- [???? Spring 2022 Season Reveal ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/🌼-spring-2022-season-reveal-🌼/) - Today, we’re excited to reveal our Spring 2022 season, featuring eight titles we’re know you'll adore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUyrwGSj2tI Fiction The Employees by Olga Ravn, Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken Literature in Translation Series | Literary Fiction | Science Fiction $20.00 | On Sale March 8, 2022 | Available Now for Pre-order Shortlisted for the
- [Literary Matchmakers: Paul Celan and R. Kolewe](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-paul-celan-and-r-kolewe/) - The final instalment of Literary Matchmakers for 2021 features two poets whose elliptical works stretch language to the outer limits of perception and expression. If you are entranced by the life and letters of Paul Celan, please meet R. Kolewe's The Absence of Zero and Afterletters. Both Celan and Kolewe are preoccupied with memory and its
- [A Year in the Books: Book*hugs Recommend, the Staff Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-year-in-the-books-bookhugs-recommend-the-staff-edition/) - Today's chapter of Book*hugs Recommend features Book*hug staff along with (some of!) our favourite reads of the year. These are books which stuck with us, made us feel, made us laugh, made us think; satisfied some of our curious, droll, earnest, comedic, speculative, scientific, wanderlusting, metaphysical, intertextual, melancholic, and optimistic—you name it—moods. Read on for
- ["Perhaps forgetting is pure unknowing possible": In Conversation with R. Kolewe](https://bookhugpress.ca/perhaps-forgetting-is-pure-unknowing-possible-in-conversation-with-r-kolewe/) - Today, we're In Conversation with R. Kolewe, author of the long poem The Absence of Zero, a slow-moving haunting work which explores time and memory in both content and form. The following long form interview is a suitable companion to a work of poetry—consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions—which takes care with
- [Literary Matchmakers: Maggie Nelson and Gail Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-maggie-nelson-and-gail-scott/) - This next instalment of Literary Matchmakers features two genre-defying/defining authors who traverse and blur categories of autobiography, theory, pop culture, feminism, queerness, art criticism and beyond. If you haven't already guessed it: Maggie Nelson and Gail Scott! If you liked Maggie Nelson's On Freedom, you will love Gail Scott's Permanent Revolution, a collection of new
- [A Year in the Books: Book*hugs Recommend, the Authors' Edition, Pt. 2](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-year-in-the-books-bookhugs-recommend-the-authors-edition-pt-2/) - Back again with the next instalment of Book*hugs Recommend, celebrating the year gone by and the season of book-giving. This round, Billeh Nickerson, Erín Moure, and Aimee Wall share their thoughts on how it felt to have a book come out during the pandemic, the highlights of their reading year, and which books they will
- [A Year in the Books: Book*hugs Recommend, the Authors' Edition, Pt. 1](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-year-in-the-books-bookhugs-recommend-the-authors-edition-pt-1/) - To celebrate the end of the year, which delightfully coincides with the season of book-gifting, we asked some of our 2021 authors to reflect on the year gone by. This round, Therese Estacion, Hasan Namir, Aaron Tucker, and Meghan Bell speak about how it felt to have a book come out during the pandemic, the
- [Literary Matchmakers: Jenny Offill and Talya Rubin](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-jenny-offill-and-talya-rubin/) - Today's Literary Match features two gifted authors who write towards the hum and thrum of climate disaster. If you liked Jenny Offill's Weather, you simply must read Talya Rubin's Iceland Is Melting and So Are You. Offill is a master of brevity, and Weather captures glimpses of climate anxiety amidst the doldrums of daily existence.
- [Literary Matchmakers: Patti Smith and Meg Remy](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-patti-smith-and-meg-remy/) - Today's Literary Match is dedicated to the reader who loves rock and roll origin stories and to the music-lover who pays attention to the lyrics. It pairs two formidable artists whose experiments have taken them from the stage to the page and back again: none other than Patti Smith and Meg Remy. If you liked
- [Literary Matchmakers: Kazuo Ishiguro and Nic Brewer](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-kazuo-ishiguro-and-nic-brewer/) - Next up in our Literary Matchmakers series, we match a beloved author with a brilliant debut writer. If you liked Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, please meet Nic Brewer's Suture! Both of these novels invoke gory, fantastical worlds where human talent comes at great personal cost. In Ishiguro's latest, children are genetically engineered for
- [Literary Matchmakers: Fleur Jaeggy and Mona Høvring](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-fleur-jaeggy-and-mona-hovring/) - The next instalment of our Literary Matchmakers series is dedicated to readers of Literature in Translation. It features two unforgettable authors, Fleur Jaeggy and Mona Høvring, whose slim novels are like two slices from the same pie—equally tart, equally delicious. If you liked Fleur Jaeggy's Sweet Days of Discipline, we are positive that you'll love
- [Our Annual Holiday Sale and Book Bundles are Back! ????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/our-annual-holiday-sale-and-book-bundles-are-back-📚🎁/) - It's that time of year again! To celebrate the festive season, we're pleased to announce the return of our annual Holiday Sale! From November 24 - December 24, save 25% off all available individual titles (eBooks and audiobooks included). Simply use code HOLIDAYSAVINGS at checkout. In addition, the Book*hug elves have once again curated a
- [Shani Mootoo Receives an Honorary Doctorate from Western University! ????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/congratulations-shani-mootoo/) - All of us at Book*hug send our warmest congratulations to the inimitable Shani Mootoo, who received an honorary doctorate from Western University during fall convocation on October 22, 2021, in recognition of her creative achievements. As well as being a brilliant and celebrated writer and gifted visual artist, Mootoo is a graduate of Western's BFA
- [Gender Studies Speaker Series at Queen's University presents Gail Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/gender-studies-speaker-series-at-queens-university-presents-gail-scott/) - “Where there is no emergency, there is likely no real experiment.” We are excited to share that tomorrow, Wednesday, November 17, the Gender Matters Speaker Series at Queen's University will host a book launch for Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott! The event will feature a reading by Gail Scott and a conversation with Trish Salah!
- [Literary Matchmakers: Sally Rooney and Lindsay Zier-Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-matchmakers-sally-rooney-and-lindsay-zier-vogel/) - The holiday season is fast approaching. Unsure of which book to gift your loved one (or yourself)? Look no further! Like a good friend or a great date, compatibility is key to the reading experience and we are here to be your literary matchmakers. If you liked Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You, we
- [Congratulations to the Nelson Ball Prize Shortlisted Authors!  ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/congratulations-to-the-nelson-ball-prize-shortlisters-🥳/) - We are thrilled to announce that This Radiant Life by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure, and Nought by Julie Joosten have both been shortlisted for the second-ever Nelson Ball Prize. This prize is given annually to a publication by a Canadian poet featuring "poetry of observation." Last year, Mark Truscott's poetry collection, Branches, won the inaugural Nelson
- [Happy Book Birthday to The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-the-absence-of-zero-by-r-kolewe-🎉/) - Today, we celebrate the much-anticipated final release of our Fall 2021 season, The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe! Fiercely attentive to detail, alive with echoes and repetitions, The Absence of Zero explores the nature of time and memory in both content and form. Read on to learn all about this haunting new work of poetry.
- [Co-translation Roundtable: Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin](https://bookhugpress.ca/co-translation-roundtable-kari-dickson-and-rachel-rankin/) - And Martha? She was a muttonhead. So reads a quote from Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born by Mona Høvring— "muttonhead" a triumphant translation of the Norwegian word "fe," which literally means "cattle" but has other connotations in Norwegian which demand a more creative use of English vocabulary.
- ["The narrative of heroism is continually bent": In Conversation with Gail Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-narrative-of-heroism-is-continually-bent-in-conversation-with-gail-scott/) - Gail Scott's Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like Stairs, was recently named a finalist for Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2021. To quote the awards jury, Gail Scott is a "véritable icône of Montreal's literary scene... Her work is both humourous and érudite and
- [Halloween 2021 Reading List ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/halloween-2021-reading-list-👻/) - There are only two days left until Halloween! Embrace the season with this handpicked selection of gory, haunted, uncanny, weird, and downright spooky reads. Ranging from horror to the horror-inspired, creepy to the creepy-adjacent, this list touches on a diverse array of subjects from disability, to the creative process, to sisterhood, to the pitfalls of
- [Happy Book Birthday to Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language ???? ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-tongues-on-longing-and-belonging-through-language-💬-🎉/) - Today we celebrate the release of a Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language, edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza and Ayelet Tsabari, with contributions from twenty-six writers. This moving and lyrical anthology opens a compelling dialogue about language diversity and the way language intersects with power, privilege, and identity. Read on to learn all about
- [Literary Awards Roundup! ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/literary-awards-roundup-🎉/) - The fall literary awards season is upon us! Read on to learn all about the authors who have become finalists over the past week and the wonderful, transfiguring reads that are up for some of Canada's most prestigious awards. ❧ 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Finalist: You Are Eating an Orange. You Are
- ["It is OK to Grieve": In Conversation with Talya Rubin](https://bookhugpress.ca/it-is-ok-to-grieve-in-conversation-with-talya-rubin/) - Today, we pick up our In Conversation series with the endlessly thoughtful Talya Rubin, author of the poetry collection Iceland Is Melting and So Are You. Read on to learn all about her ideas surrounding climate change and environmental poetry, and for news about the upcoming virtual launch taking place on November 10! In the
- [The Soundtrack Behind the Book: Suture!](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-soundtrack-behind-the-book-suture/) - Next up in our Active Listening series is Suture, Nic Brewer's inspiring debut novel which blends body horror with incisive meditations on love, pain, and the creative process. “I read this book with wonder," writes Gillian Wigmore, author of Glory, "Brewer’s confident prose swept me along. Hers is sure, sharp writing that doesn’t flinch from
- [Happy Book Birthday to Iceland Is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin ????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-iceland-is-melting-and-so-are-you-by-talya-rubin-🎉🎉/) - Today, we celebrate the release Iceland Is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin! Positioned at the brink of the climate crisis, this urgent collection of poetry offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two. Read on to learn all about
- [Read the World Bookfair at at ALTA44!](https://bookhugpress.ca/read-the-world-bookfair-at-at-alta44/) - We’re excited to join the American Literary Translators Association for the debut of #ReadTheWorld, an online bookfair celebrating translators and their publishers ahead of and during the virtual portion of the ALTA44 conference (October 15-17). Use the discount code readtheworld at checkout and save 20% off of all titles in our Literature In Translation Series
- [Umbilical Cord Is Love: An Essay by Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/umbilical-cord-is-love-an-essay-by-hasan-namir/) - Today we are delighted to welcome award-winning writer Hasan Namir to the Book*hug Blog. In the following essay, Namir introduces readers to some of the thoughts and feelings surrounding his latest collection Umbilical Cord, poems documenting the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Parents or would-be parents will enjoy these
- [Happy Book Birthday to Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born by Mona Høvring Translated by Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-because-venus-crossed-an-alpine-violet-on-the-day-that-i-was-born-by-mona-hovring-translated-by-kari-dickson-and-rachel-rankin-🎉/) - Please join us in celebrating the release of Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born by Mona Høvring, translated by Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin! Read on to learn all about this award-winning title, the latest in our much-loved Literature in Translation Series. Happy Book Birthday to Because Venus
- [Fall 2021 Poetry Preview: The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2021-poetry-preview-the-absence-of-zero-by-r-kolewe/) - Today, our Fall 2021 preview series wraps up with a sneak peek at The Absence of Zero, R. Kolewe's elegy to the 20th century and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to disrupt our present. A triumphant celebration of the long poem tradition, The Absence of Zero consists of 256 16-line quartets, and
- [In Conversation: Nic Brewer](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-nic-brewer/) - Continuing our In Conversation series, Nic Brewer joins us to discuss her remarkable debut novel, Suture! Suture fiercely and tenderly interweaves the stories of three artists who literally tear themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Using body horror as a means of
- [In Conversation: Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-hasan-namir/) - The next installment of our In Conversation series features Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir! Namir's new collection of poetry, Umbilical Cord, documents the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the
- [Letters to Amelia: The Official Book Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/letters-to-amelia-the-official-book-playlist/) - Our Active Listening series continues with Letters to Amelia, Lindsay Zier-Vogel's critically-acclaimed debut novel which combines the contemporary story of a newly single woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant with a passionate epistolary love affair between iconic American aviator and feminist icon Amelia Earhart and Gene Vidal. "Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut that will make you
- [Happy Book Birthday to Suture by Nic Brewer! ✨ ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-suture-by-nic-brewer-✨-🎉/) - Today, we’re celebrating the release of Suture, a bold and original debut novel by the talented Nic Brewer! Blurring distinctions between reality and metaphor, Suture renders a new vocabulary for thinking through art, bodies, and desire. Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated debut, and for information on tonight’s virtual launch of Suture!
- [In Conversation: Lindsay Zier-Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-lindsay-zier-vogel/) - The fall book season is upon us! Over the coming weeks, a brilliant cohort of Book*hug's Fall 2021 authors will be sharing their thoughts on the writing process, the books they read while penning their own, and their favourite themes and takeaways. Lindsay Zier-Vogel starts us off with a discussion of her debut novel,
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Rachel!](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-rachel/) - Hello everyone! My name is Rachel and I’m delighted to announce that I am Book*hug’s newest intern. When I set out to find my place in publishing, I was hoping to begin my adventure at an independent press. Known for taking chances on books and authors that the “Big Five” publishing houses do not,
- [Happy Book Birthday to Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir! ????✨](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-umbilical-cord-by-hasan-namir-🌈✨/) - Today, we’re celebrating the release of a tender and moving new poetry collection by Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir! Umbilical Cord is a joyful poetry memoir about parenting, fatherhood, love, and hope that documents the journey that Namir and his husband took to have a child. Read on to learn all about
- [Fall 2021 Nonfiction Preview: Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language](https://bookhugpress.ca/27833-2/) - Our Fall 2021 preview series continues with Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language, edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari! This vital anthology opens a compelling dialogue about language diversity and probes the importance of language in our identity and the ways in which it shapes us. In this collection of deeply
- [Fall 2021 Poetry Preview: Iceland is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2021-poetry-preview-iceland-is-melting-and-so-are-you-by-talya-rubin/) - Our Fall 2021 preview series continues with Iceland is Melting and So Are You by Talya Rubin. The urgency of the climate emergency is explored in this latest collection by award-winning poet Talya Rubin. It offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between
- [We, Jane by Aimee Wall Longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize!](https://bookhugpress.ca/we-jane-by-aimee-wall-longlisted-for-the-2021-scotiabank-giller-prize/) - We are thrilled that We, Jane by Aimee Wall has been longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize! We, Jane explores intergenerational female relationships, the precarity of rural existence, and the essential nature of abortion. It probes the importance of care work by women for women and beautifully captures the inevitable heartache of understanding
- [Happy Book Birthday to Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel! ????✈️????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-book-birthday-to-letters-to-amelia-by-lindsay-zier-vogel-💌✈️🎉/) - The fall book season has officially arrived! Today, we’re kicking off the new season by celebrating the release of Letters to Amelia, the first title in our fall line up! Read on to learn all about this highly anticipated debut novel, as well as news about the upcoming Toronto Lit Up virtual launch on September
- [Women in Translation Month Roundtable Interview: Part Three](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-month-roundtable-interview-part-three/) - It’s the last day of Women in Translation Month! For our third and final roundtable discussion featuring Aleshia Jensen, Cristina Sandu, Erin Moure, Kari Dickson, Rachel Rankin, and Kristen Renee Miller, we're discussing translation and gender! The translators also share what they are currently working on and what books you can look forward to seeing
- [Women in Translation Month Roundtable Interview: Part Two](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-month-roundtable-interview-part-two/) - August may be coming to an end, but we are still celebrating Women in Translation Month! As promised, we're pleased to share part two of our three-part roundtable interview with our lovely translators. Today we're discussing the idea of translatability—words and phrases that are lost but also gained in translation, phrases we love in specific
- [Active Listening: Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell](https://bookhugpress.ca/active-listening-erase-and-rewind-by-meghan-bell/) - Our Active Listening series invites authors to create playlists for their books, and offers them a space to draw parallels between the two. Why is this song a perfect match for the book? Why is this song essential to listen to in order to understand it? These are questions that Active Listening is interested in
- [Fall 2021 Fiction Preview: Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day That I Was Born by Mona Høvring, Translated by Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-fiction-preview-because-venus-crossed-an-alpine-violet-on-the-day-that-i-was-born-by-mona-hovring-translated-by-kari-dickson-and-rachel-rankin/) - It’s time to meet the Fall 2021 authors and their books! We’ll be diving more deeply into the books we introduced in our Fall 2021 season reveal, previewing individual titles. Our series of sneak peeks continues with Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day That I Was Born by Mona Høvring, translated from
- [Women in Translation Month Roundtable Interview: Part One](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-month-roundtable-interview-part-one/) - Women in Translation Month is in full swing! To continue our month-long celebration we are pleased to bring you a three-part roundtable interview series featuring several women working in translation. Over the next few weeks, we will share their collective responses to a few questions we asked about their reading habits and all things translation.
- [Women in Translation Month — Reading Recommendations](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-month-reading-recommendations/) - Happy Women in Translation Month! Women in Translation Month was launched in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski in response to her observation that women wrote only approximately 30% of books published in translation. Each August, #WITmonth highlights the work of women writers and translators from around the world. Book*hug Press is honoured to have
- [Active Listening: The Union of Synchronized Swimmers by Cristina Sandu, Translated by Cristina Sandu](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-union-of-synchronized-swimmers-by-cristina-sandu/) - Book*hug’s Active Listening series invites authors to create playlists for their books, and offers them a space to draw parallels between the two. Why is this song a perfect match for the book? Why is this song essential to listen to in order to understand it? These are questions that Active Listening is interested in
- [Fall Fiction Preview: Suture by Nic Brewer](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-fiction-preview-suture-by-nic-brewer/) - It’s time to meet the Fall 2021 authors and their books! We’ll be diving more deeply into the books we introduced in our Fall 2021 season reveal, previewing individual titles. Stay tuned on the blog for exclusive excerpts and thoughts from the authors, and if you haven’t already done so, follow Book*hug on Facebook, Instagram,
- [Active Listening: Catalogue d'oiseaux by Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/active-listening-catalogue-doiseaux-by-aaron-tucker/) - Book*hug’s Active Listening series invites authors to create playlists for their books, and offers them a space to draw parallels between the two. Why is this song a perfect match for the book? Why is this song essential to listen to in order to understand it? These are questions that Active Listening is interested in
- [Fall 2021 Poetry Preview: Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-poetry-preview-umbilical-cord-by-hasan-namir/) - It’s time to meet the Fall 2021 authors and their books! We’ll be diving more deeply into the seven books we introduced in our Fall 2021 season reveal, previewing individual titles and sharing exclusive excerpts and thoughts from the authors. Our Fall preview series continues with a sneak peek at Hasan Namir's sophomore poetry collection,
- [Fall 2021 Fiction Preview: Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-fiction-preview-letters-to-amelia-by-lindsay-zier-vogel/) - It’s time to meet the Fall 2021 authors and their books! We’ll be diving more deeply into the seven books we introduced in our Fall 2021 season reveal, previewing individual titles and sharing exclusive excerpts and thoughts from the authors.Our series of sneak peeks begins with Letters to Amelia, by Lindsay Zier-Vogel, which Amy Jones
- [????????Fall 2021 Season Reveal????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/🍂🍁-fall-2021-season-reveal-🍁🍂/) - Today we’re excited to reveal our Fall 2021 season! Our fall lineup includes seven titles we’re confident you will fall hard for. Fiction Letters to Amelia by Lindsay Zier-Vogel Fiction | $23.00 | On Sale September 7th, 2021 | Available Now for Pre-order Underscoring the power of reading and writing letters for self-discovery, Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s
- [Presenting VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland](https://bookhugpress.ca/presenting-versschmuggel-reversible-an-anthology-of-english-canadian-poetry-poesie-du-quebec-dichtung-aus-deutschland/) - Today, Book*hug Press is excited to present VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland and a roundtable-style interview with some of the contributors. VERSschmuggel is a poetry translation project hosted by Berlin’s Haus für Poesie. This unique international collaboration and cultural exchange between poets includes
- [Happy Publication Day to The Union of Synchronized Swimmers by Cristina Sandu](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-the-union-of-synchronized-swimmers-by-cristina-sandu/) - Happy Publication Day to The Union of Synchronized Swimmers, by Finnish-Romanian author Cristina Sandu, translated from the Finnish by Cristina Sandu! We’re delighted to share this book with you, which won the 2020 Toisinkoinen Literary Prize in its native Finland, a literary award given for the best second novel. The Union of Synchronized Swimmers follows
- [Five Books to Read This Father's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/five-books-to-read-this-fathers-day/) - June 20th is Father’s Day, but there’s no need to wait until Sunday to celebrate our father figures. Fathers come in all shapes and sizes—in every gender, race, and sexuality—and today’s reading list is a testament to their diversity. Any one or more of the following books would be a perfect gift for the father—or
- [A Pride Month Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-pride-month-reading-list/) - June is Pride Month: a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and its members, yes, but also a resounding cry for radical liberation. Pride Month began as a commemoration of the Stonewall Riots and the revolutionaries involved in them, including Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, both trans women of colour. Our celebration of Pride Month
- [Congratulations to In Memory of Memory, Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize](https://bookhugpress.ca/congratulations-to-in-memory-of-memory-shortlisted-for-the-2021-international-booker-prize/) - The winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize was announced yesterday. While we were rooting for Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale—the brilliant author and translator duo behind In Memory of Memory—we send our warmest congratulations to At Night All Blood Is Black: written by David Diop and translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, and published
- [Asian Stories, Asian Storytellers: Kith by Divya Victor](https://bookhugpress.ca/asian-stories-asian-storytellers-kith-by-divya-victor/) - This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world. Book*hug is honoured to have published ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Asian authors, and for the next several weeks, we’ll be shining a light on these authors and
- [Happy Publication Day to Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-permanent-revolution-by-gail-scott/) - Happy Publication Day to Permanent Revolution, by Gail Scott! We’re thrilled to share this stunning essay collection with you, at last, which was edited for the press by Margaret Christakos and beautifully designed by Michel Vrana. Scott’s Permanent Revolution is a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces Like
- [Asian Stories, Asian Storytellers: You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King](https://bookhugpress.ca/asian-stories-asian-storytellers-you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-by-sheung-king/) - This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world. Book*hug is honoured to have published ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Asian authors, and for the next several weeks, we’ll be shining a light on these authors and
- [Happy Publication Day to Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-erase-and-rewind-by-meghan-bell/) - Happy Publication Day to Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell! We’re thrilled to be able to share this book with you, at last, which so many Book*hug readers have anticipated. Erase and Rewind was edited for the press by Meg Storey and beautifully designed by Ingrid Paulson. Told from the perspective of various female protagonists,
- [You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. Now Available as an Audiobook! ????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-now-available-as-an-audiobook/) - We're really excited to share that You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King is now available on all audiobook platforms, narrated by Kenny Wong! Our thanks to the amazing team at ECW Audio for producing the audiobook edition of this critically acclaimed debut novel! ???? ???? You Are Eating an Orange.
- [Asian Stories, Asian Storytellers: Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas](https://bookhugpress.ca/asian-stories-asian-storytellers-coconut-dreams-by-derek-mascarenhas/) - This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world. Book*hug is honoured to have published ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Asian authors, and for the next several weeks, we’ll be shining a light on these authors and
- [Asian Stories, Asian Storytellers: Before I Was a Critic, I Was a Human Being by Amy Fung](https://bookhugpress.ca/asian-stories-asian-storytellers-before-i-was-a-critic-i-was-a-human-being-by-amy-fung/) - This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world. Book*hug is honoured to have published ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Asian authors, and for the next several weeks, we’ll be shining a light on these authors and
- [Ten Books to Read This Short Story Month](https://bookhugpress.ca/10-books-to-read-this-short-story-month/) - May is Short Story Month! Please join us in celebrating this centuries-old yet endlessly versatile form. Whether you read short stories frequently, occasionally, or not at all, we invite you to consider adding the following books—all short story collections—to your May reading list. Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell Meghan Bell’s debut collection is a
- [Asian Stories, Asian Storytellers: Phantompains by Therese Estacion](https://bookhugpress.ca/asian-stories-asian-storytellers-phantompains-by-therese-estacion/) - This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world. Book*hug is honoured to have published ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Asian authors, and for the next several weeks, we’ll be shining a light on these authors and
- [Asian Stories, Asian Storytellers: To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic](https://bookhugpress.ca/asian-stories-asian-storytellers-to-love-the-coming-end-by-leanne-dunic/) - This May, please join us in celebrating Asian Heritage Month: a recognition of the humanity, power, and ongoing struggles of Asian communities throughout the world. Book*hug Press is honoured to have published ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Asian authors, and for the next several weeks, we’ll be shining a light on these authors
- [Mother's Day Sale!](https://bookhugpress.ca/mothers-day-sale/) - Mother’s Day is fast approaching and to celebrate we’re having a sale! There’s no better gift than the perfect book. This year, treat Mom to some quiet reading time with a new book (or two, or three, or more). Save 25% off all available titles* until May 9, 2021, at 11:59 pm EST. Use
- [A Re-Origin of Species Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-re-origin-of-species-mood-board/) - Today, our mood board series continues with Re-Origin of Species, Alessandra Naccarato’s debut poetry collection. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, Re-Origin of Species draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability
- [Happy Publication Day to We, Jane by Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-we-jane-by-aimee-wall/) - Happy Publication Day to Aimee Wall’s We, Jane! A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places, We, Jane explores the precarity of rural existence and the essential nature of abortion. The novel follows the Montréal-based, Newfoundland-born Marthe, who begins an intense friendship with an older woman—also from Newfoundland—who
- [An In Memory of Memory Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/an-in-memory-of-memory-mood-board/) - Today, our mood board series continues, this time with acclaimed Russian author Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale. In Memory of Memory tells the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. Dipping into various
- [Happy US Publication Day to Begin by Telling by U.S. Girls' Meg Remy! ????](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-us-publication-day-to-begin-by-telling-by-meg-remy/) - Happy US Publication Day to Meg Remy’s Begin by Telling! Since its Canadian release last month on March 16th, Remy’s genre-defying debut book has received well-deserved and thoughtful praise. In a profile in The Globe and Mail, Brad Wheeler writes that Remy’s book is “remarkable for its candidness, intimacy and potent social commentary.” In a
- [Happy Publication Day to Duct-Taped Roses by Billeh Nickerson](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-duct-taped-roses-by-billeh-nickerson/) - Happy Publication Day to Duct-Taped Roses by Billeh Nickerson! In his most recent poetry collection, Nickerson shares heartbreaks and offers odes and elegies in reflections on family, community, life, and loss. The poignancy of his relationship with his father is celebrated in the long poem “Skies,” whereas other poems reminisce about love and the complex
- [Happy Publication Day to Catalogue d'oiseaux by Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-catalogue-doiseaux-by-aaron-tucker/) - Happy publication day to Aaron Tucker’s Catalogue d’oiseaux! We’re delighted to share this book-length lyrical, confessional love poem from the author of Irresponsible Mediums, especially during National Poetry Month. This expansive poem moves sensually through small, intimate spaces and the larger world alike. Traced through art, architecture, and the cultural life of various cities, this
- [Spring Nonfiction Preview: Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-nonfiction-preview-permanent-revolution-by-gail-scott/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the last couple of months, we’ve been highlighting individual spring titles and sharing exclusive excerpts on the Book*hug blog.
- [A National Poetry Month Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-national-poetry-month-reading-list/) - This National Poetry Month, we encourage you to judge a book by its cover. At almost two hundred poetry collections published to date, it’s unsurprising—perhaps even to be expected—that Book*hug books are as enjoyable to look at as they are to read. In celebration of #NPM21, we’ve selected twelve poetry titles that embody this duality,
- [Happy Publication Day to Therese Estacion's Phantompains](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-therese-estacions-phantompains/) - Happy Publication Day to Therese Estacion’s Phantompains! We’re honoured to share Estacion’s visceral, imaginative debut poetry collection with you, which began as an essential task to deal with the trauma of hospitalization and what followed. Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several
- [Spring Fiction Preview: The Union of Synchronized Swimmers by Cristina Sandu, Translated by Cristina Sandu](https://bookhugpress.ca/26519-2/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [Introducing Just Pervs: The Play: A Roundtable Discussion With the Playwright and Cast](https://bookhugpress.ca/23723-2/) - We're excited to share that Jess Taylor's short story 'Just Pervs,' the title story from her Lambda Literary Award nominated collection, has been adapted for the stage by playwright Reid Millar. Perverted Assemblages Collective presents the show's inaugural (virtual) run, opening today, March 30, and streaming nightly until April 8. Just Pervs: The Play centres
- [Spring Fiction Preview: Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-erase-and-rewind-by-meghan-bell/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [A Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-fanny-and-the-mystery-in-the-grieving-forest-mood-board/) - Our mood board series continues with Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest. Written by Rune Christiansen, one of Norway’s most exciting literary talents, and masterfully translated by Kari Dickson, this novel is a beautiful, poetic portrait of grief, friendship, independence, and transgression. Originally published as Fanny og mysteriet i den sørgende skogen
- [Spring Poetry Preview: Duct-Taped Roses by Billeh Nickerson](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-duct-taped-roses-by-billeh-nickerson/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next while, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and exclusive excerpts
- [And Roses and Roses: A Spring Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/and-roses-and-roses-a-spring-reading-list/) - It’s officially spring! True to Book*hug form, we’re celebrating with a reading list. These titles hum—softly and otherwise—with the spirits of play, risk, and soil-deep transformation. You might feel them wrap a tendril around your wrist; let them. They’ll lead you into their lush, florid worlds, and you can take them into yours: into whatever
- [Spring Poetry Preview: Catalogue d'oiseaux by Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-catalogue-doiseaux-by-aaron-tucker/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [Happy Publication Day to Meg Remy's Begin by Telling](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-meg-remys-begin-by-telling/) - Happy Publication Day to Meg Remy’s Begin by Telling! We’re so excited to share this immersive and utterly compelling book with you, which Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara calls “powerful and distinctive.” The threads in Begin by Telling nimbly interweave with probing quotes and statistics, demonstrating the importance of personal storytelling, radical empathy, and
- [Spring Fiction Preview: We, Jane by Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-we-jane-by-aimee-wall/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [Ten Books to Read This International Women's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/an-international-womens-day-reading-list/) - March 8th is International Women’s Day: a celebration of women’s achievements and a call to action for women’s rights. If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to read more books by women—or if, like us, you’ve reached the end of yet another reading list—we have good news: seven out of nine of our forthcoming
- [Spring Poetry Preview: Phantompains by Therese Estacion](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-phantompains-by-therese-estacion/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [Happy Publication Day to Maria Stepanova's In Memory of Memory, Translated by Sasha Dugdale](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-maria-stepanovas-in-memory-of-memory-translated-by-sasha-dugdale/) - Happy Publication Day to Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale! Already published in 17 territories, we’re thrilled to introduce this remarkable work of documentary fiction to Canadian readers. In Memory of Memory tells the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad
- [We're All in This: Continuing the Conversation](https://bookhugpress.ca/were-all-in-this-continuing-the-conversation/) - As the month of February draws to a close, so, too, does Black History Month. But the conversation doesn’t have to stop, nor should it if the goal is revolution. If it is to make real the new ways of thinking, seeing, and relating that we so frequently imagine. We close with Bla_K: Essays and
- [Spring Fiction Preview: In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, Translated by Sasha Dugdale](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-in-memory-of-memory-by-maria-stepanova-translated-by-sasha-dugdale/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [We're All in This: Black History Month, and Even Further](https://bookhugpress.ca/were-all-in-this-black-history-month-and-even-further/) - Our Black History Month series continues with Smells Like Stars by D. Nandi Odhiambo. Smells Like Stars draws attention to what is hidden in plain sight, what cruelties life presents, and what struggles we face in our search for meaning. The novel follows journalist Kerstin Ostheim and freelance photographer P.J. Banner, who question their compatibility
- [Spring Fiction Preview: Begin by Telling by Meg Remy](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-begin-by-telling-by-meg-remy/) - Friends of Book*hug, meet Spring 2021. Earlier this year, we unveiled the forthcoming titles in our Spring 2021 season, but now it’s time to get to know the authors and their books a bit better. For the next couple of months, we’ll be highlighting individual spring titles, and sharing some thoughts from the authors and
- [We're All in This: Black History Month, and Further Beyond](https://bookhugpress.ca/were-all-in-this-black-history-month-and-further-beyond/) - Whose bodies are unconditionally worthy of health and safety? Whose bodies are worthy of love and justice? This Black History Month, the answers to these questions are especially important, but also especially vague. Many of us feel a kind of déjà vu—knowing we’ve persisted, wept, before—even as we tread water cloudy for everyone. Blog posts
- [We're All in This: Black History Month, and Far Beyond](https://bookhugpress.ca/were-all-in-this-black-history-month-and-far-beyond/) - Make no mistake: the pandemic has tangled the whole world in its web. But as the whole world watches Black people increasingly brutalized, disregarded, and placed at risk, refrains like “We’re all in this together” give pause, shining a blacklight on the blood in the chasm. Whose bodies are unconditionally worthy of health and safety?
- [Ten Books to Fall in Love with This Valentine's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/ten-books-to-fall-in-love-with-this-valentines-day/) - What is love? We have yet to agree on a global definition. Love is a chemical reaction, a pop song, a way to sell flowers. Love is selflessness, or selfishness, or both. Love is unknowable and uncontrollable. Love just is. Whatever your understanding of love, global or otherwise, Valentine’s Day is a good day to
- [Valentine's Sale: Books to Fall in Love With](https://bookhugpress.ca/valentines-sale-books-to-fall-in-love-with/) - Let’s talk about love. Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your book-loving beloved? It’s our opinion that a good book is a better gift than chocolate or flowers combined (but hey, these things pair nicely with books, to be sure). It's the personal touch that makes giving a book truly meaningful. We’re quite
- [A Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-beloved-of-my-twenty-seven-senses-mood-board/) - Our mood board series continues with Karen Fastrup’s Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses, translated from the Danish by Tara Chace. You might remember that Book*hug's Co-publisher, Jay MillAr, sang this book’s praises last year, but if you don’t we’ll sing them again; we’re more than happy to. Taking its title from Kurt Schwitters’s fanatical love
- [Spring 2021 Season Preview](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-2021-season-preview/) - We always look forward to spring, but this year, we’re especially eager, and not just for flowers (which those of us with allergies might be looking forward to less eagerly). Spring is a season of transformation: a chance to reconsider, reimagine, and reinvent in both minor and major ways. Our forthcoming Spring 2021 titles offer
- [Sheung-King Longlisted for #CanadaReads 2021!](https://bookhugpress.ca/sheung-king-longlisted-for-canadareads-2021/) - Happy New Year! CBC Books has revealed the #CanadaReads 2021 longlist and we are thrilled that Sheung-King’s stunning debut novel, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked., is on it! Congratulations Sheung-King! This year marks the 20th edition of Canada Reads. The panellists and the five books they choose to champion will be revealed
- [Book*hug Reads, Part Two: Four Staff Favourites for Your Holiday Wish List](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-reads-part-two-four-staff-favourites-for-your-holiday-wish-list/) - Book*hug reads again. Today, we’re shining a light on four Book*hug staff members and their recommended reading, all of which, as part of our Holiday Sale, is 25% off in our online shop until December 23rd. If, after yesterday’s recommendations, you’re still looking for a book—or books—for that special someone, these titles are equally worth
- [Book*hug Reads, Part One: Four Author Favourites for Your Holiday Wish List](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-reads-part-one-four-author-favourites/) - This week’s reading list series is brought to you by a transliterated proverb. Maybe you know it: “Good things come in pairs.” What better pair than Book*hug authors and staff members? (A rhetorical question, but we’ll wait.) We talked to both groups about their favourite titles from Book*hug Press: the old and the new; the
- [Mark Truscott Wins Inaugural Nelson Ball Prize for Branches](https://bookhugpress.ca/mark-truscott-wins-inaugural-nelson-ball-prize-for-branches/) - We’re delighted to announce that, on December 14th, 2020, Mark Truscott was awarded the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize for his 2018 poetry collection, Branches. Congratulations Mark! The prize—which comes with a commemorative plaque and $1,000, provided by donors from across the country—commemorates Canadian poet, publisher, and bookseller Nelson Ball, and is awarded annually to a
- [Holiday Reading Wish List #5: The Passion According to B*h, Poetry to Keep You Warm This Winter](https://bookhugpress.ca/holiday-reading-wish-list-5-the-passion-according-to-bh-poetry-to-keep-you-warm-this-winter/) - Here at Book*hug, we like hugs—it’s in our name—and we look forward to the day we can give them again. But we like poetry too, which offers its own brand of intimacy, and which, unlike hugs, can aim its arrows at ideas. At the ambiguous and the metaphysical. The following poetry collections have proper nouns
- [Holiday Reading Wish List #4: Tell It Slant, Five Works of Radical Introspection for the Winter Holidays](https://bookhugpress.ca/tell-it-slant-five-works-of-radical-introspection-for-the-winter-holidays/) - It’s hard to look within ourselves, with or without an endoscope or years of therapy. (Having both isn’t a guarantee.) Luckily, all of the following titles have done the hard work of interrogation. They question themselves, the world, and their place in it, infusing the introspective with the radical (and vice versa). Any or all
- [In Conversation: Shannon Bramer](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-shannon-bramer/) - “When you read a book you get to turn pages.” —Shannon Bramer A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential but frequently elusive art of writing. For the next couple of months, we’ll be sharing
- [Congratulations to Alex Leslie, Two-Time Finalist for the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards](https://bookhugpress.ca/congratulations-to-alex-leslie-two-time-finalist-for-the-2020-western-canada-jewish-book-awards/) - Congratulations to Alex Leslie, double nominee for the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards! Leslie’s short story collection, We All Need to Eat, is a finalist for the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction, and her poetry collection, Vancouver for Beginners, is a finalist for the Lohn Foundation Prize for Poetry. The winners will be
- [Lise Downe Reads from Propositions and Prayers](https://bookhugpress.ca/lise-downe-reads-from-propositions-and-prayers/) - Our author reading series continues with multidisciplinary artist Lise Downe, whose poetry collection, Propositions and Prayers, was published by Book*hug Press on November 17th, 2020. Downe’s first book of poetry in nine years blurs the boundaries between inner and outer experiences of the self, often subverting expectations and habit in its deconstruction of structure and
- [Holiday Reading Wish List #3: Brave New World, Five Winter Reads That Defy Genre and Reality](https://bookhugpress.ca/holiday-reading-wish-list-3-brave-new-world-five-winter-reads-that-defy-genre-and-reality/) - All of the books on today’s holiday wish list refuse to be categorized. They’re comfortable with discomfort; with liminal space; with edges so blurred that they cut without blood or bodily warning. They’re also just really good, but you already knew that. Any or all of these books would make a perfect gift for the
- [A Talking Animals Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-talking-animals-mood-board/) - Today, our mood board series continues with Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals, which was released by Book*hug Press on September 15th. A fable for our times, Murphy’s sophomore novel is an urgent allegory about friendship, art, and the elemental struggle to change one’s life under the low ceiling of capitalism. It sits within walking distance of
- [The Literary Press Group Launches #ReadUp from Canadian Indie Publishers](https://bookhugpress.ca/readup-from-canadian-indie-publishers/) - The Literary Press Group of Canada has launched a digital awareness campaign, "Read Up", to highlight the value of Canadian literary publishers and the books they produce. Book*hug Press is a proud member of this important organization. All books are not created equal. For Canadian independent literary publishers, books are a labour of love, one
- [Holiday Reading Wish List #1: Brief Candles, Five Short Story Collections for the Winter Holidays](https://bookhugpress.ca/brief-candles-five-short-story-collections-for-the-winter-holidays/) - Shorter days. Longer sleeves. Lower temperatures. The slow creep of winter is hard to ignore, especially this year, when at-home pastimes aren’t just enjoyable but essential. We’d never come between you and a loaf of sourdough—or, for that matter, between you and a vodka tonic—but we propose very good books as a chaser. (Very.) And
- [Holiday Reading Wish List #2: Cold Comfort, Five Winter Reads](https://bookhugpress.ca/holiday-reading-wish-list-2-cold-comfort-five-ways-to-weather-the-winter/) - Today, our holiday reading wish list series continues, this time with five books that offer us a port in the proverbial snowstorm. These titles are evergreen: they thrive in the sub-zero worlds they exist in. However you’d prefer to escape the cold—“feel-good” fiction, lyric poetry, psychological thriller… we could continue, but we won’t—it’s safe to
- [In Conversation: David Goudreault](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-david-goudreault/) - B*H: Why do you write? DG: Well, why not? A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential but frequently elusive art of writing. For the next couple of months, we’ll be sharing their wit, their
- [Bahar Orang Reads from Where Things Touch](https://bookhugpress.ca/bahar-orang-reads-from-where-things-touch/) - Our author reading series continues with Bahar Orang, who reads from her debut collection, Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty, in the following video. Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty, which is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care
- [In Conversation: Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-erin-moure/) - “To commune with language, of the living and of the dead.” —Erín Moure Our conversation continues with poet and translator Erín Moure, whose translation of Chantal Neveu’s This Radiant Life—originally published in French as La vie radieuse—celebrates its official publication today; congratulations! In its brevity and persistence, This Radiant Life is a material call for
- [In Conversation: Lise Downe](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-lise-downe/) - “Writing is a process of unfolding possibilities.” —Lise Downe Our conversation continues with multidisciplinary artist Lise Downe, whose poetry collection, Propositions and Prayers, celebrates its official publication today; congratulations! Downe’s first book of poetry in nine years is a collection in two parts: “Propositions” is a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression of
- [Excerpt from Mama's Boy Game Over by David Goudreault](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-publication-day-to-mamas-boy-game-over-by-david-goudreault/) - Mama’s Boy Game Over—the third and final volume of David Goudreault’s wildly bestselling Mama’s Boy trilogy—is celebrating its official publication. Translated by JC Sutcliffe, Mama’s Boy Game Over is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, action-packed series, which also includes Mama’s Boy and Mama’s Boy Behind Bars (both also translated by JC Sutcliffe). The Huffington
- [After the Giller: Congratulations and Thanks to All!](https://bookhugpress.ca/after-the-giller-congratulations-and-thanks-to-all/) - On November 9th, we went to Prince Edward County to safely celebrate the Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony with Shani Mootoo. Thank you to Carlyn and the staff of Oeno Gallery for organizing a safe and socially distanced gathering so that Shani’s friends and loved ones in her bubble could come together to fete her and
- [Julie Joosten Reads from Nought](https://bookhugpress.ca/julie-joosten-reads-from-nought/) - Today, we have another reading to share with you, this time by Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Julie Joosten. Joosten reads from her recently published poetry collection, Nought, which explores the intersections of body, identity, and love. In Nought, experience—from resistance to love and all points between—is constantly surprising and utterly enchanting. Thought comes alive
- [A You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-mood-board/) - Our mood board series continues with Sheung-King’s critically acclaimed debut novel, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked., which was released by Book*hug Press on October 27th. We’ve talked about the book’s vivid imagery before, as well as its myriad of influences, all of which it distills into a precise, reflective beauty. We think
- [Kate Sutherland Reads from The Bones Are There](https://bookhugpress.ca/kate-sutherland-reads-from-the-bones-are-there/) - Today, Kate Sutherland reads from The Bones Are There, her recently published poetry collection. Sutherland’s fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers’ journals, ships’ logs, textbooks and manuals, individual testimony, even fairy and folk tales that tell stories of extinction—of various species, and of our own understanding of, and culpability
- [Kristen Renee Miller Reads from Spawn](https://bookhugpress.ca/kristen-renee-miller-reads-from-spawn/) - Today, we’re delighted to share another reading with you, this time by editor, poet, and translator Kristen Renee Miller. Miller translated Marie-Andrée Gill’s recently published collection, Spawn, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Québec. Joshua Whitehead, award-winning author of Jonny Appleseed, writes that “Marie-Andrée Gill’s
- [The Films in You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-films-in-you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked/) - Today, we’re excited to share another guest post from one of our Fall 2020 authors! We asked Sheung-King—whose novel, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked., was just published by Book*hug Press on October 27th—to write about some of the films that influenced his critically-acclaimed debut novel. Intertext radiates throughout the book, which, among
- [In Conversation: Sheung-King](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-sheung-king/) - B*H: Why do you write? SK: It’s an effective way to discuss ideas. A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential but frequently elusive art of writing. For the next couple of months, we’ll be
- [Eight Books to Read This Halloween](https://bookhugpress.ca/eight-books-to-read-this-halloween/) - We have a confession: we’re slightly fanatical about Halloween. We’re also fanatical about reading lists, so being adventurous, we’ve decided to combine the two topics of interest. Today’s selection of books embodies the spirit—or, rather, the spirits (pun intended)—of the season: costume and disguise; the supernatural and the uncanny; cosmic horror and primal suspense. The
- [An Agatha Mood Board](https://bookhugpress.ca/an-agatha-mood-board/) - You’ve probably heard that saying about words and pictures. (If you haven’t, stop reading now, because this conceit is about to collapse.) Today—and for the next couple of weeks—we offer our own take on the adage. We’re shining a light on this season of books using meaningful colours, images, shapes, and textures. In other words,
- [The Scotiabank Giller Gala Live with Artist Shani Mootoo at Oeno Gallery](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-scotiabank-giller-gala-live-with-artist-shani-mootoo-at-oeno-gallery/) - Oeno Gallery Oenogallery.com 613-393-2216 FOR RELEASE October 12, 2020 The Scotiabank Giller Gala Live with Artist Shani Mootoo at Oeno Gallery Oeno Gallery is proud to announce that multidisciplinary artist Shani Mootoo has had her fifth novel, Polar Vortex, shortlisted for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. Mootoo’s stunning exhibition of photographs, Portraits of Re-Semblance, is
- [Five Questions About Agatha](https://bookhugpress.ca/five-questions-about-agatha/) - Today, we’re delighted to share another interview with Anne Cathrine Bomann, whose internationally bestselling novel, Agatha, was released by Book*hug Press on September 29th. Translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight, Agatha is a charming, enlightened, and frequently funny portrait of human connection. “Agatha is a seductive tale, pleasingly spare and evocative,” writes Martha Baillie,
- [Recommended Reading: Six Books to Help You Wrap Your Mind Around the Sixth Extinction](https://bookhugpress.ca/recommended-reading-six-books-to-help-you-wrap-your-mind-around-the-sixth-extinction/) - Today, we’re delighted to share a reading list curated and annotated by Kate Sutherland, author of The Bones Are There (published on October 13th) and How to Draw a Rhinoceros. We asked Sutherland to write about some of the books, ideas, and images that influenced her most recent poetry collection, which draws identifiable connections between
- [In Conversation: Angela Carr](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-angela-carr/) - “At first, writing was like singing, something I did for pleasure, and the compulsion came from deep inside, arising from the rhythms of the body.” —Angela Carr A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential
- [Shani Mootoo is a Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize!](https://bookhugpress.ca/congratulations-to-shani-mootoo-and-polar-vortex/) - We're thrilled to announce that Shani Mootoo’s Polar Vortex has been shortlisted for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize! Seductive and tension-filled, Polar Vortex is a story of secrets, deceptions, and revenge. Are we ever free from our pasts? Can we ever truly know the people we are closest to? The novel asks these questions and
- [In Conversation: Joni Murphy](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-joni-murphy/) - “… writing has become the way I gather, sort, and then release.” —Joni Murphy A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential but frequently elusive art of writing. For the next couple of months, we’ll
- [Six Modern Fables for Modern Life](https://bookhugpress.ca/six-modern-fables-for-modern-life/) - In a world full of stories, there are some that stick to us like burrs, told and retold with trace edits for centuries. It might have been years since your grandmother warned you to stay on the path—if you’re not Little Red Riding Hood, it’s possible that she never warned you—but the images and morals
- [In Conversation: Kate Sutherland](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-kate-sutherland/) - “… you might now find me making poems with paint, a needle and thread, or scissors and paper and glue.” —Kate Sutherland A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential but frequently elusive art of
- [In Conversation: Jonathan Ball](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-jonathan-ball/) - “The monster is the moral centre of the horror story because the monster represents the truth of the world.” —Jonathan Ball A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and about the essential but frequently elusive art of writing.
- [In Conversation: Anne Cathrine Bomann](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-anne-cathrine-bomann/) - “The feeling of thinking on the page and of learning more about both myself and the general human condition while doing it.” —Anne Cathrine Bomann A new season means new conversations, or, rather, new In Conversations! We talked to some of our Fall 2020 authors about their forthcoming books, and the essential but frequently elusive
- [A Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-small-broke-and-kind-of-dirty-playlist/) - Today, we have something special for you! We asked Hana Shafi, a.k.a. Frizz Kid, to create a playlist for her recently published book, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty. Built around art from Shafi’s popular online affirmation series, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty focuses on our common and never-ending journey of self-discovery. It’s more
- [Five More Books That Fight Back](https://bookhugpress.ca/five-more-books-that-fight-back/) - We’re not done yet: our list of #booksthatfightback continues today with five more powerful titles. Like last week’s reading list, these books interrogate violent legacies with wit and wisdom. They empower us to educate ourselves—and others—and take action against systemic oppression. Disquieting: Essays on Silence by Cynthia Cruz Disquieting: Essays on Silence, Cynthia Cruz’s first
- [Five Books That Fight Back](https://bookhugpress.ca/five-books-that-fight-back/) - Today’s selection of books shines a light on historical injustices: colonialism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, and ableism, to name a few. These titles prompt us to interrogate the status quo; to fight back against systemic oppression; and, perhaps most importantly, to educate ourselves. It’s never the wrong time for resistance. Mobile by Tanis MacDonald Mobile
- [In Conversation: Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/21461-2/) - “I think storytelling is almost an instinct of mine. It’s what brings me joy in life, even when it’s just telling stories among friends, which is sometimes even more powerful.” —Hana Shafi Today, we’re excited to celebrate the publication of Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty, Hana Shafi’s beautifully illustrated essay collection. Congratulations, Hana! Small,
- [Happy Publication Day to Talking Animals by Joni Murphy!](https://bookhugpress.ca/publication-celebration-talking-animals/) - Happy Book Birthday to Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals! Murphy's first novel, Double Teenage, was named by The Globe and Mail as a Best Book of 2016. If you liked Double Teenage, you're going to love Talking Animals. A fable for our times, Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us
- [A #StillSummer Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-still-summer-reading-list/) - As we approach the end of a thoroughly weird summer—and, for that matter, a thoroughly weird year—we return to books as a means of processing. These titles capture the season’s unique mixture of loss, growth, and anticipation, which afflicts us every year, regardless of whether we spent most of it on Zoom. Wherever life takes
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Jessica Moore](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-jessica-moore/) - Our celebration of Women in Translation continues! Today we're in conversation with writer and Booker International Prize nominee, not to mention genre-defying singer-songwriter, Jessica Moore. She has translated many important titles, including Sylvain Prudhomme’s award-winning novel The Greats. We’re incredibly grateful to be able to share her thoughts with you today. B*H: What should
- [Women in Translation: JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-jc-sutcliffe/) - This is it: our last post for Women in Translation Month! What a fun month it's been celebrating so many wonderful women working in translation today! Today, we’re sharing an excerpt from François Blais’ funny, smart, and wonderfully human novel, Document 1, translated by the inimitable JC Sutcliffe. Document 1 is a tragicomic tale of
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-in-conversation-with-aimee-wall/) - Our celebration of Women in Translation Month continues today with Aimee Wall, translator of several books, including Vickie Gendreau’s Testament and Drama Queens and Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard’s Sports and Pastimes. Testament, Gendreau’s debut novel, is one of Book*hug’s nearest and dearest. Among many other things, it’s a book of firsts: it is Wall’s first book-length
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Kari Dickson](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-in-conversation-with-kari-dickson/) - Our celebration of Women in Translation Month continues! Today, we're in conversation with Kari Dickson! For Book*hug, Dickson translated Norwegian author Rune Christiansen’s beautiful novel Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest, which was shortlisted for Norway’s Brage Prize in 2017. Of course, her work doesn’t end there: over the years, she’s translated dozens
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Angela Carr](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-in-conversation-with-angela-carr/) - Today’s #WITMonth interviewee is poet and translator Angela Carr, whose fourth poetry collection, Without Ceremony, is forthcoming from Book*hug on October 15, 2020. Two of Carr’s previous collections, Here in There and The Rose Concordance, were also published by Book*hug, as was Carr’s translation of Québécoise poet Chantal Neveu’s Coït. Her deep immersion in poetry
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-in-conversation-with-oana-avasilichioaei/) - It’s still Women in Translation Month—yay!—which means we’re still celebrating. Today, we are in conversation with the prolific, multitalented, and award-winning translator and poet Oana Avasilichioaei. Not only are we celebrating #WITMonth with Oana today, but we're also celebrating the official release day of her latest translation, Bertrand Laverdure’s The Neptune Room. Happy Publication Day
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Kristen Renee Miller](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-kristen-renee-miller/) - We continue to celebrate #WITMonth today with another interview! In this instalment, we talk to Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill’s collection, Spawn. As an author, editor, and translator, Miller wears many hats, all of them brimming with talent. (Sorry.) Her translation of Spawn has been called “luminous” by Kiki Petrosino,
- [Women in Translation: In Conversation with Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/women-in-translation-erin-moure/) - Our celebration of Women in Translation Month continues with a special collaboration! We talked to several women in translation about their work in the field, what attracted them to it, and their favourite translated titles and authors, among other things. Starting today, we’ll be sharing those insightful conversations on the blog. We’ll also be sharing
- [Women in Translation: A Celebration, Part One](https://bookhugpress.ca/literature-in-translation-a-celebration-part-one/) - August is Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth)! This month, we’re excited to spotlight not only our Literature in Translation Series, but also the women in translation today. Launched in 2014, Women in Translation Month was created by book blogger Meytal Radzinski. #WITMonth started in response to Radzinski’s observation that only around 30% of books published
- [Women in Translation: A Celebration, Part Two](https://bookhugpress.ca/literature-in-translation-a-celebration-part-two/) - Our spotlight on Women in Translation Month continues today with another recommended reading list of books translated by women. Part One featured a selection of translated titles from Quebec. Part Two is a selection of international literature translated by women. The following titles transcend more than borders: they equally challenge literary and sociopolitical conventions, and
- [Fall 2020 Season Preview ????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-2020-season-preview/) - Today, we’re excited to unveil our forthcoming Fall 2020 season! Autumn may seem far away, especially given the recent heat wave, but if the pandemic has taught us anything—besides how to bake sourdough bread—it’s that change happens quickly. In this case, change is good: it means that you get to read about some amazing new
- [Black Lives Matter: Silence is Not an Option](https://bookhugpress.ca/black-lives-matter-a-statement-from-bookhug-press-against-racism-and-police-violence/) - Over the past week, people in cities around the world have organized and come together amid the pandemic to march in protest against anti-black racism, systemic racism, and police violence and the disproportionate killing of Black citizens. These protests and mass demonstrations were sparked by the murder of George Floyd while in police custody in
- [In Conversation: Bertrand Laverdure](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-bertrand-laverdure/) - “I literally fall in love with certain words.” —Bertrand Laverdure Bertrand Laverdure is the kind of author who speaks—or, in the case of this interview, emails—as vividly as he writes. (Skeptics should watch his 2015 interview with translator Oana Avasilichioaei.) He makes diet pop and t-shirts seem as profound as death, the latter of which
- [Pride Month Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/pride-month-reading-list/) - June is Pride Month. It is important to remember that the first Pride started as a protest that was largely led by the activism of trans women of colour. The Stonewall Uprising began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, in NYC, as a stand against police harassment, persecution, violence, and the enforcement of
- [Summer Reads Sale](https://bookhugpress.ca/summer-reads-sale/) - Happy Canada Day! ???????? Happy Summer!☀️ To celebrate summer’s arrival, we’re having a Summer Reads Sale! Save 25% off everything* on our site until July 15. Simply use Code SUMMERSAVE25 at checkout. * forthcoming titles / pre-orders not included Things are obviously different this summer—after all, we’re still in the grip of a global pandemic.
- [This One's For All the Dads and Father Figures: A Father's Day Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/this-ones-for-all-the-dads-and-father-figures-a-fathers-day-reading-list/) - Sunday is Father's Day. Picking out a gift for the father figures in your life can be tough, but we have a simple solution: if they're a reader, get dad a new book. In honour of this special day, we've compiled a Father's Day Reading List of 16 books (many by authors who themselves are
- [In Conversation: Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-julie-joosten/) - “Some people’s lives have slowed down… Mine has sped up.” —Julie Joosten Julie Joosten has the ability to pare language down to its core, distilling the guts of each word and sensation. Her recently published poetry collection, Nought, the follow-up to her award-winning 2013 debut Light Light, focalizes touch, describing it so vividly that its
- [In Conversation: Brad Casey](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-brad-casey/) - “Writing is like a form of meditation for me, it’s good to just have some ambient noise, a quick reading of something I love to clear my mind then just start.” —Brad Casey Brad Casey’s first short story collection, The Handsome Man, exists in a near-forgotten world in which travel is normal. (I know. It’s
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Alex Leslie](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-alex-leslie/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration concludes today with Alex Leslie, author of We All Need to Eat. This collection of linked stories revolve around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, the stories slipstream through Soma’s first three decades. Lyrical, gritty, and atmospheric, Soma’s stories refuse to shy away from
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Jess Taylor, Part Two](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-jess-taylor-part-two/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration continues with Jess Taylor, whose critically-acclaimed debut collection, Pauls, we featured earlier this month. Today, we’re featuring Taylor’s sophomore collection, Just Pervs, which is currently a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards (Bisexual Fiction Category). In Just Pervs, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted, and women are given
- [In Conversation: Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-beatriz-hausner/) - “My favourite word is LOVE, because it is the most transformative force there is.” —Beatriz Hausner Beatriz Hausner—author of Enter the Raccoon and the recently-published Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, which had a more-than-successful launch on Zoom—kindly agreed to talk to us again. This time, we discussed the process and art of writing, and how it may
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Derek Mascarenhas](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-derek-mascarenhas/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration continues with Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut Dreams. Mascarenhas’ debut collection explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and
- [In Conversation: Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-shani-mootoo/) - “Trepidation sometimes, courage at others, and a nagging curiosity mostly.” —Shani Mootoo On Thursday, April 23rd, Shani Mootoo—award-winning author, painter, and photographer—launched Polar Vortex, her latest novel, on Instagram Live. What the event lacked in proximity, Shani made up for with warmth: the launch felt like a chat with a brilliant friend. Her interview with
- [In Conversation: Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-marianne-apostolides/) - “I don’t know what else to do right now, except observe, absorb, and speak.” —Marianne Apostolides I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind, Marianne Apostolides’ latest novel, is eerily timely: it imagines a world in which humans and technology are intimately connected. The book drops anchor in the midst of a pandemic that’s drawn
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Stephen Thomas](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-stephen-thomas/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration continues with Stephen Thomas, author of The Jokes. Like a series of moments in a social media-like “feed,” this collection of very short stories riffs on the form of “the joke,” but as this might be understood by the best culture-critical comedians of our time: Andy Kaufman, Stephen Wright, Jon
- [In Other Words: A Long Weekend Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-other-words-a-long-weekend-reading-list/) - Deciding what book to read next is hard enough without the yoke of a pandemic; now, the choice feels Herculean, at best. In an attempt to solve this problem and stay connected, we’re offering book recommendations on the blog. We hope you find something to read, if not today, then whenever you feel ready to
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Brad Casey](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-brad-casey/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration continues with Brad Casey, author of The Handsome Man. The Handsome Man, Casey’s first work of fiction, is a collection of linked stories that follow several years of the life of a young man as he is drawn around the world: from Toronto to Montreal, New York, Ohio, New Mexico,
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Emily Anglin](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-emily-anglin/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration continues with Emily Anglin, author of The Third Person. In Anglin’s debut collection of darkly humorous and uncanny short stories, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality:
- [Mother's Day Recommended Reading List ????????????](https://bookhugpress.ca/mothers-day-recommended-reading-list-🌼💐🌺/) - Sunday is Mother's Day. In honour of this special day, we’ve compiled our personal recommendations of books that will make perfect gifts for your book-loving mama, grandma, auntie, sister, cousin, friend, or you can treat yourself. There's no better gift than the perfect book. From must-read literary fiction to poetry, and creative nonfiction/memoir to literature
- [May is Short Story Month!](https://bookhugpress.ca/may-is-short-story-month/) - Welcome to May! Welcome to Short Story Month! It has been said that the short story is the quintessential Canadian form — from Nobel Prize-winning Alice Munro to other amazing writers like Matt Cohen or Norman Levine who were also masters of the form, the short story has been a major player through the history
- [Short Story Month Celebration: Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/short-story-month-celebration-jess-taylor-2/) - Our Short Story Month Celebration begins with Jess Taylor, author of the critically acclaimed story collections, Pauls and Just Pervs. Today, we're sharing an excerpt from Pauls, which in 2015 was named a National Post Best Book of the Year, a Kobo Best Canadian Book of the Year, an Amazon.ca Editors' Best Book of the
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Moez Surani](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-moez-surani/) - On this final day of our National Poetry Month Celebration, we're happy to share the poem 'Commandments (The Sure Route to Success in Western Art)' from Moez Surani's latest collection, Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real. Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality, and the insidious freight of abstraction, Surani’s poems
- [Song on Tongue: An Interview with Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/song-on-tongue-an-interview-with-beatriz-hausner/) - The first conversation that I have with Beatriz Hausner—author of Enter the Raccoon and the recently-published Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart—lasts longer than I expect it to. Exactly how long, I don’t remember. One hour? Two hours? It feels like minutes, because I’m captivated, both by her research and by her personal and political philosophies. During our
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Robin Richardson](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-robin-richardson/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Robin Richardson, author of Try Not to Get Too Attached, the second title in our new Salon Series. In Try Not to Get Too Attached, Richardson uses line drawings, colour and text, to transpose the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Mark Truscott](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-mark-truscott/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Mark Truscott. In Truscott's latest collection, Branches, careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Alex Leslie](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-alex-leslie/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Alex Leslie. In Leslie's latest book, Vancouver for Beginners, a finalist for the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood landmarks long gone, and a developer
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Julie Morrissy](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-julie-morrissy/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Irish poet Julie Morrissy. Where, the Mile End, Morrissy’s debut collection, embodies an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and a distinct edginess. Morrissy’s lines track emotional, physical, and geographical change, as she intimately links the vitality of two continents: the snow,
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Shannon Bramer](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-shannon-bramer/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Shannon Bramer. Bramer’s recent book, Precious Energy, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that remains within us all even as we grow up and into whatever person we keep trying to become. Featuring
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-sandra-ridley/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Sandra Ridley. Ridley’s most recent poetry collection, Silvija, combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles in a sequence of five feverish elegies, manifesting dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour
- [Meet Our New Intern: Danielle](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-new-intern-danielle/) - Hello, friends and family of Book*hug! My name is Danielle, but unless you’re a traditionalist, please feel free to call me Dani. You can also call me D, but as you may or may not know, that letter has been corrupted by the Internet. … Anyway, I’m Book*hug’s newest intern. It’s nice to meet all
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-adrienne-gruber/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Adrienne Gruber, author of Q & A. Gruber’s third full poetry collection is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Alessandra Naccarato](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-alessandra-naccarato/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Alessandra Naccarato. We're pleased to share two selections from her debut book, Re-Origin of Species, which was shortlisted today for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets! Congratulations to Alessandra! The poems in Re-Origin of Species journey through illness and altered states to
- [National Poetry Month: Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-shannon-webb-campbell/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of I am a Body of Land. If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Shortlisted in 2019 for the
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-beatriz-hausner/) - 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 peek from the book. Happy Book Birthday to Beatriz and Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart! From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems concern themselves with various
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Jennifer LoveGrove](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 Foxes bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that will take you on an odyssey through a terrain of startling dreamscapes. These are poems haunted
- [Nationl Poetry Month Celebration: Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/nationl-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 was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. Happy Book Birthday to Nought! Joosten's sophomore collection explores the intersections of body, identity, and
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Leanne Dunic](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-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 Dunic's 2017 debut captures what it’s like to be united while simultaneously separated from the global experience of trauma, history, and loss that colour our
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-hasan-namir/) - Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with 'Khusrah', a poem from War/Torn by Hasan Namir. War/Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity. Award-winning poet Jordan Scott calls the collection "a breathless elegy in the most defiantly tender poetics you can imagine.” Signal Alert: War/Torn, which was named an Honor Book for
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-celebration-marie-andree-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 unforgettable poetry of the highest order.” Today also happens to be the official release date for this stunning collection. Happy Publication Date to Spawn! Spawn
- [Announcing the Stay Home and Read Sale](https://bookhugpress.ca/announcing-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 home and practicing social distancing. It’s critical that we all continue to do this. Thank you as well for your continued support of our authors
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Emmalea Russo](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-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 you the poem 'In the Compartment' from Wave Archive by Emmalea Russo. In Wave Archive, Russo invokes her own experiences with seizures, photographs and art-making,
- [National Poetry Month Celebration: Tanis MacDonald](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-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 Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate
- [Mobile: Who Would Hear?](https://bookhugpress.ca/mobile-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 and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. In praise of
- [Announcing the Essais Series](https://bookhugpress.ca/announcing-the-essais-series/) - Book*hug is pleased to announce the launch of a new non-fiction series, the Essais Series. Drawing on the Old and Middle French definitions of essai, meaning first “trial” and then “attempt,” and from which the English word “essay” emerges, the works in the Essais Series challenge traditional forms and styles of cultural enquiry. The Essais
- [Old Mercury Eyes: An Exquisite Corpse Poem](https://bookhugpress.ca/old-mercury-eyes-an-exquisite-corpse-poem/) - Hi, everyone - Mary Ann, here! My time time with Book*hug will soon come to a close (cue emotional, Hans Zimmer soundtrack), but before I go, and for one big Blog-style "hurrah", I have orchestrated an infinitely chaotic and unpredictable game of "The Exquisite Corpse" with a group of Book*hug authors. To summarize, The Exquisite
- [Ferocious Fearlessness: In Conversation with Catherine Lalonde and Oana Avasilichioaei, author and translator of The Faerie Devouring](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-faerie-devouring-an-author-roundtable-with-catherine-lalonde-and-oana-avasilichioaei/) - 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, her absent mother (who dies in childbirth), and a brood of fatherless boys all raised by Gramma, a stalwart matriarch and wicked faerie godmother. From
- [Queers, Processing: A Dialogue on Navigating Works in Progress](https://bookhugpress.ca/queers-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, Hana Shafi and Gwen Benaway—about the messy process, pitfalls and discoveries of the years in between projects. Whether your writing process is one of incubation
- [Possibility of Transformation: In Conversation with Michael Nardone](https://bookhugpress.ca/possibility-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 Gulf of California—the book documents the poet’s listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. Author Charles Bernstein writes that, "Michael Nardone’s The Ritualites explores
- [Feature Friday: Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp by Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-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 Duchamp. Inspired by the 1968 chess performance of avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage, Irresponsible Mediums translates Duchamp’s chess games into poems using
- [Feature Friday: Better Nature by Fenn Stewart](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-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 this book is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century. But rather than
- [Feature Friday: The Year of My Disappearance by Carole David, Translated by Donald Winkler](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-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 Award winner Donald Winkler. A searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman’s psyche, present here are ­figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her
- [Feature Friday: The Third Person by Emily Anglin](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-third-person-by-emily-anglin/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from The Third Person, Emily Anglin's debut collection of short stories. A sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and
- [Feature Friday: The Ritualites by Michael Nardone](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-ritualites-by-michael-nardone/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday we are excited to bring you an excerpt from Michael Nardone’s book-length poem and the first in a series of planned works on the sonic topography of North America, The Ritualites. Composed at sites all across the continent—from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear Lake to the Gulf of
- [Feature Friday: The Lost Cosmonauts by Ken Hunt](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-lost-cosmonauts-by-ken-hunt/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from The Lost Cosmonauts by Ken Hunt, an elegy to humanity’s fledgling efforts to explore outer space, and to those who lost their lives in pursuit of this goal. This wide-ranging collection of poems looks deep into the largely unexplored cosmos for experiences
- [Feature Friday: Mama's Boy by David Goudreault, Translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-mamas-boy-by-david-goudreault-translated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are very excited to bring you an excerpt from David Goudreault's Mama's Boy, translated JC Sutcliffe. Written with gritty humour in the form of a confession, Mama’s Boy recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood
- [Feature Friday: Branches by Mark Truscott](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-branches-by-mark-truscott/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Mark Truscott's new poetry collection, Branches. Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Clear thinking demands that these navigations remain unconscious. But what if they’re meaningful,
- [Feature Friday: The Faerie Devouring by Catherine Lalonde, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-faerie-devouring-by-catherine-lalonde-translated-by-oana-avasilichioaei/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are excited to bring you an excerpt from the newly released The Faerie Devouring, 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, her absent mother (who
- [A Nomadic Consciousness: In Conversation with D. Nandi Odhiambo](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-nomadic-consciousness-in-conversation-with-d-nandi-odhiambo/) - Nandi Odhiambo's new book, Smells Like Stars, draws attention to what is hidden in plain sight, what cruelties life presents, and what struggles we face in our search for meaning. Journalist Kerstin Ostheim and freelance photographer P.J. Banner have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. As their wedding fast approaches, they question their
- [Feature Friday: Smells Like Stars by D. Nandi Odhiambo](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-smells-like-stars-by-d-nandi-odhiambo/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are very pleased to bring you an excerpt from D. Nandi Odhiambo's upcoming book, Smells Like Stars. Journalist Kerstin Ostheim and freelance photographer P.J. Banner have been together six months after meeting on a dating website. As their wedding fast approaches, they question their compatibility while investigating mysterious horse killings
- [Feature Friday: We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-we-all-need-to-eat-by-alex-leslie/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are very pleased to bring you an excerpt from We All Need to Eat, a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, each story chronicles a sea change in Soma’s
- [Feature Friday: The Unpublished City, Volume II, Edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-unpublished-city-volume-ii-edited-by-phoebe-wang-canisia-lubrin-dionne-brand/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are very pleased to bring you some excerpts from a sequel to the Toronto Book Award nominated anthology, The Unpublished City, Volume II, edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand. Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a
- [The Excavation of Memory: In Conversation with Kim Trainor](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-excavation-of-memory-in-conversation-with-kim-trainor/) - Ledi, the newly released book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman’s carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods were also discovered—rosehips and wild garlic, translucent vessels carved from
- [Feature Friday: Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-holy-wild-by-gwen-benaway/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Gwen Benaway's third collection of poetry, Holy Wild. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work to navigate the daily burden of transphobia and violence. She examines the intersections of
- [Textured Sonically: In Conversation with Mark Truscott](https://bookhugpress.ca/textured-sonically-in-conversation-with-mark-truscott/) - Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and much larger. The sound of the vacuum cleaner in the next room is noise
- [To Find Belonging: In Conversation with Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/to-find-belonging-in-conversation-with-hana-shafi/) - It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi’s poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity, and faith. Juno Award nominated musician and songwriter Alysha Brilla calls It Begins With The Body “the anthem of
- [Feature Friday: Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-sludge-utopia-by-catherine-fatima/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Catherine Fatima's debut novel, Sludge Utopia, an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. From an intellectual relationship with a professor, a casual sexual relationship, to
- [Feature Friday: It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-it-begins-with-the-body-by-hana-shafi/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are excited to bring you an except from Hana Shafi's debut book, It Begins With The Body, a collection that explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Hana's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity,
- [Feature Friday: Honestly By Steven Zultanski](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-honestly-by-steven-zultanski/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Steven Zultanski's latest book, Honestly, the third title in a trilogy that explores the limits of individual expression. It begins with research into a forgotten relative, and from there the poem swerves into a series of minor-key personal anecdotes,
- [Making the Self: In Conversation with Catherine Fatima](https://bookhugpress.ca/making-the-self-in-conversation-with-catherine-fatima/) - Catherine Fatima's debut novel, Sludge Utopia, is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, twenty-five-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships, thinking that desire
- [Feature Friday: This Will Be Good by Mallory Tater](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-this-will-be-good-by-mallory-tater/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we're pleased to bring you an excerpt from Mallory Tater's debut poetry collection, This Will Be Good, which tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family
- [On Mama's Boy: In Conversation With David Goudreault and JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/on-mamas-boy-in-conversation-with-david-goudreault-and-jc-sutcliffe/) - Mama's Boy by David Goudreault, translated by JC Sutcliffe, is written with gritty humour in the form of a confession. It recounts the family drama of a young man who sets out in search of his mother after a childhood spent shuffling from one foster home to another. A bizarre character with a skewed view of
- [An Update from Shannon Webb-Campbell and the Team at Book*hug](https://bookhugpress.ca/an-update/) - It has been a little over two months since we made the very difficult decision to halt sales and promotion of Who Took My Sister? At this time, we wish to provide an update, to let everyone know of the steps we have taken together in beginning our process of making amends and our plans
- [Feature Friday: Kith by Divya Victor](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-kith-by-divya-victor/) - Either as a way of knowing or being known; either by the way a “we” exists or does not when we are not home; either as targets or by treason; either as a question of resemblance or in answer to a name: kith. For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we're pleased to bring
- [Advice to My Younger Writer Self: An Author Roundtable](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-roundtable/) - An author's journey is a particularly twisty one. Amidst the drafts, re-writes, readings, and even seeded somewhere within that first fragment of an idea is the constant development of their craft. Book*hug asked eight of our authors to take a trip into the past for writing tips they would give their younger writer selves to
- [Building Frameworks: In Conversation with Steven Zultanski](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-book-of-listening-in-conversation-with-steven-zultanski/) - Steven Zultanski's latest book, Honestly, is the third title in a trilogy (and also his third publication with Book*hug) that explores the limits of individual expression. It begins with research into a forgotten relative who was kicked out of the author’s family after he was jailed for conscientious objection to WWII, and who then moved
- [Feature Friday: Document 1 by François Blais, translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-document-1-by-francois-blais-translated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we're thrilled to bring you an excerpt from Document 1 by Québécois author (and underground superhero of French writing) François Blais, translated into English by JC Sutcliffe. The latest title in our award-winning Literature in Translation Series, Document 1 is a tragicomic tale of two dreamers and their quest
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Mary Ann!](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-mary-ann/) - Hi, everyone! My name is Mary Ann, Book*hug's new student intern. I'm so excited to get started, to get out of what has risked becoming a repetitive routine of researching and writing papers, and dip my toes into a very different type of literary experience. As a life-long reader and lover of all things books,
- [And the winner is..... Oisín Curran](https://bookhugpress.ca/and-the-winner-is-oisin-curran/) - Book*hug is pleased to share the wonderful news that Oisín Curran, author of Blood Fable, is the winner of the 2018 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award! Oisín received the prize at the 10th annual Atlantic Book Awards Gala on Thursday, May 10, in Halifax, NS. Managed by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, the $25,000
- [Changing the Game: In Conversation with Chelene Knight](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-tune-with-the-mess-in-conversation-with-chelene-knight/) - Chelene Knight's new book, Dear Current Occupant, is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In this critically-acclaimed book, which Carleigh Baker calls "a love song to East Vancouver", Knight uses a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, and reflects on her
- [Feature Friday: Blood Fable by Oisín Curran](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-blood-fable-by-oisin-curran/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are very excited to bring you an excerpt from Oisín Curran's award-winning novel, Blood Fable. Winner of the 2018 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, Blood Fable tells the story of a utopian community on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader’s authority teeters as his followers come
- [Feverish: In Conversation with Mallory Tater](https://bookhugpress.ca/feverish-in-conversation-with-mallory-tater/) - Vancouver poet Mallory Tater's debut poetry collection, This Will Be Good, tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships. These poems deftly bear witness to the performance of femininity and
- [Feature Friday: The Nonnets by Aaron Giovannone](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-nonnets-by-aaron-giovannone/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Aaron Giovannone's latest collection: The Nonnets, a book-length sequence of “nonnets”—nine-line poems that Giovannone handles with ruthless dexterity. Capturing transformations from first dates to goodbye texts, from mama’s boy to unrepentant shoplifter, from post-industrial downtown to eleventh-century Italian monastery, these
- [Feature Friday: Dear Current Occupant by Chelene Knight](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-dear-current-occupant-by-chelene-knight/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are thrilled to bring you an excerpt from Chelene Knight's Dear Current Occupant, a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through
- [A Statement From the Publishers Regarding Who Took My Sister? by Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-statement-regarding-who-took-my-sister-by-shannon-webb-campbell/) - We have learned that a book we recently published by Shannon Webb-Campbell titled Who Took My Sister? is causing pain and trauma to members of Indigenous communities. In particular, work in this book has inflicted additional and unnecessary trauma to the family of Loretta Saunders, as well as to other families of Murdered and Missing
- [A Statement in Response to Recent Events](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-statement-in-response-to-recent-events/) - Certain events have transpired recently in a bid to discredit one of our authors, Erin Wunker. In case you missed the whole debacle, a screen capture of a recent Facebook post by Erin was acquired, through questionable means, by Angie Abdou, who then sent it to Jonathan Kay who shared it on Twitter in an
- [Feature Friday: The Greats by Sylvain Prudhomme, translated by Jessica Moore](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-the-greats-by-sylvain-prudhomme-translated-by-jessica-moore/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we're especially thrilled to bring you an excerpt from the award-winning novel The Greats by Sylvain Prudhomme, translated by Wellcome Prize winner Jessica Moore. Originally published in France as Les Grands (Éditions Gallimard), and winner of both the 2015 Prix Littéraire de la Porte Dorée and the 2014
- [Feature Friday: Precious Energy by Shannon Bramer](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-precious-energy-by-shannon-bramer/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from poet and playwright Shannon Bramer's highly anticipated new poetry book, Precious Energy. In Bramer's fourth full collection—and first in over a decade—we find vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that
- [Feature Friday: False Friends by Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-false-friends-by-stephen-cain/) - In this week's edition of Feature Friday, we're pleased to bring you an excerpt from False Friends, the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In False Friends, Cain takes inspiration from the linguistic term “false friends”—two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different
- [Feature Friday: Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes by Jennifer LoveGrove](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-beautiful-children-with-pet-foxes-by-jennifer-lovegrove/) - Feature Friday is back and just in time for the start of a long summer weekend. Today we're pleased to bring you an excerpt from Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes, the third poetry book by Giller Prize-longlisted author Jennifer LoveGrove. The poems in this collection bear witness to moments of extreme crisis and take you
- [Feature Friday: To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-to-love-the-coming-end-by-leanne-dunic/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we're pleased to bring you an excerpt from To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic. In this evocative debut book of prose poetry, a disillusioned narrator obsessed with natural disasters and ‘the curse of 11’ reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one.
- [Feature Friday: Bridge Retakes by Angela Lopes](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-bridge-retakes-by-angela-lopes/) - For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we introduce you to Bridge Retakes, the debut novel by Winnipeg-based writer Angela Lopes. In it, Ze, a Bahian man, and Phila, a Brazilian-Canadian woman, meet on an online dating site. They come from very different worlds—geographically, economically, religiously—and yet, their connection is undeniable. But all the while, issues
- [The Modern Self is a Reader Self: In Conversation with Bertrand Laverdure and Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-modern-self-is-a-reader-self-in-conversation-with-bertrand-laverdure-and-oana-avasilichioaei/) - Bertrand Laverdure's novel, Readopolis, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei, playfully examines the idea that human beings are more connected by their reading abilities than by anything else. Originally published in French as Lectodôme (Le Quartanier, 2008), the novel was critically-acclaimed and was a finalist for the 2009 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault. A review in Le Devoir
- [Celebrate Dad: 5 Books for Father's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/celebrate-dad-top-5-reads-for-fathers-day/) - Father's Day is here again. Time to celebrate and show our appreciation for fathers and father figures. In honour of all our dads, here's a recommended reading list of five books that we think every Dad will love. Besides, they all have enough ties and BBQ aprons. Operations by Moez Surani 1965 "Red Snapper 27-65
- [Feature Friday: Charm by Christine McNair](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-charm-by-christine-mcnair/) - A charm can protect, inflict or influence. For this week's edition of Feature Friday, we’re pleased to bring you an excerpt from Charm, the second poetry collection by Ottawa poet Christine McNair. In Charm, McNair considers the craftwork of conception from a variety of viewpoints—from pregnancy and motherhood, to how an orchid is pollinated, to overcoming abusive relationships,
- [Feature Friday: Comma by Jennifer Still](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-comma-by-jennifer-still/) - This week's edition of Feature Friday shines a light on the beautiful work of art and poetry that is Comma, the third full collection by award-winning writer Jennifer Still. Between 2008—2014, while her brother was in a lengthy coma, Still engaged in a private collaboration with the art and wonder that was his handwritten field
- [Staring Down the Blank Page: In Conversation with Jennifer LoveGrove](https://bookhugpress.ca/staring-down-the-blank-page-in-conversation-with-jennifer-lovegrove/) - Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes is Giller Prize-longlisted author Jennifer LoveGrove's third collection of poetry. It bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that take you on an odyssey through a terrain of startling dreamscapes. These are poems haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in
- [Kicks Just Keep Getting Harder to Find: In Conversation with Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/kicks-just-keep-getting-harder-to-find-in-conversation-with-stephen-cain/) - False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term “false friends”—two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humourous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore
- [Curl Up: 5 Long Weekend Reads](https://bookhugpress.ca/curl-up-5-long-weekend-reads/) - Have you been looking forward to the May long weekend to relax, take a trip, visit with friends, or read a good book? Possibly a bit of everything? Whether you plan to curl up with a book at the cottage, in the city, or en route to a destination, BookThug has you covered. Here are
- [Feature Friday: Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-readopolis/) - For this edition of Feature Friday, we're pleased to bring you an excerpt from the novel Readopolis by award-winning author Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei. BookThug is pleased to be Bertrand's English language publisher. Readopolis (Lectodôme in the original French) is his second novel in translation with BookThug, after 2014’s Universal Bureau of Copyrights,
- [The Mother of All Lists: 5 Books for Mother's Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-mother-of-all-lists-5-books-for-mothers-day/) - O god save all the many gendered-mothers of my heart, & all the other mothers, who do not need god or savior, our hearts persist in excess of the justice they’re refused. —Dana Ward, “A Kentucky of Mothers” On Mother's Day, we celebrate mothers, aunties, grandmothers, and more. We celebrate family, sisterhood and friendship. But
- [Book Notes: May 2017](https://bookhugpress.ca/book-notes-may-2017/) - Welcome to the May edition of Book Notes! This month, the staff at BookThug HQ share our current fave reads. Let us know if you've read any of these books too, and if so, what you thought of them. If you haven't read them yet then we highly recommend you add them all to your
- [Feature Friday: Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinsong](https://bookhugpress.ca/feature-friday-rag-cosmology-by-erin-robinsong/) - Looking for some weekend reading? BookThug is excited to introduce Feature Friday—each Friday, we'll feature one book from our current season and include a special excerpt for your reading pleasure. If you're intrigued by what you read, you can order a copy here. We promise you won't regret it! Meet Rag Cosmology, the debut poetry collection from poet and interdisciplinary
- [April Showers bring May Flowers...and Spring Reading Recommendations](https://bookhugpress.ca/april-showers-bring-may-flowers-and-spring-reading-recommendations/) - Today is the first day of May, and, as we all know, April showers bring May flowers. The time has come again for us to marvel as the earth awakens from its winter slumber. Something you may not know is that along with May comes Spring book recommendations from BookThug! If catching up on your
- [Share the Love: Spotlight on Authors for Indies Day 2017](https://bookhugpress.ca/share-the-love-spotlight-on-authors-for-indies-day-2017/) - April 25th, 2017 By Shayanna Seymour, Special to the BookThug Blog It's that time of year again! The time to support, and show your love for, Canadian independently-owned bookstores on none other than Author for Indies Day (AFI). This year marks the 3rd annual AFI which will take place all across the country at 87
- [BookThug Spring 2017 Launch Party: A Recap](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-spring-2017-launch-party-a-recap/) - Special to the BookThug Blog: Shayanna Seymour April 20, 2017 Hey there! For anyone who wasn't able to be at our Spring 2017 Launch Party last Thursday, April 13th, this recap is here to catch you up on what you missed. Or maybe you were there and you want to relive the fun memories of
- [Meet Our Newest Intern: Melissa!](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-newest-intern-melissa/) - Hi there! Melissa here. I’m thrilled to be BookThug’s newest intern and taking part in their exciting adventures in literary publishing this spring. I grew up outside of Toronto with over three generations of my family involved in all aspects of the printing industry. The intoxicating smell of ink, oil and paper is home to
- [Invariably: Marianne Apostolides on Deep Salt Water](https://bookhugpress.ca/invariably-on-deep-salt-water-by-marianne-apostolides/) - Mixed Media Collage by Catherine Mellinger Deep Salt Water, the latest book by Marianne Apostolides, is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. It is a book that all of us at BookThug are very honoured to have published. Today we welcome Marianne to the BookThug
- [World Health Day: Let's Talk (and Read)](https://bookhugpress.ca/recommended-reads-world-health-day/) - Every year, April 7th is known as World Health Day. It is a day of spreading global health awareness, started by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is important to spread the word and get involved in this campaign to keep everyone well-informed and to get help to those who need it. Every year the
- [Event Recap: Pivot Reading Series on April 5th, 2017](https://bookhugpress.ca/event-recap-pivot-reading-series-on-april-5th-2017/) - The Pivot Reading Series is always great, and last's event night was no different. We all huddled together in The Steady Bar and Cafe on Bloor St. West, poets and publishers alike, to listen to four authors read from their new work. Supposably starting at 8 (when we all know that means 8:45 in the
- [Meet our New Intern: Shayanna!](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-new-intern-shayanna/) - Hi everyone! My name is Shayanna, and I am BookThug’s newest intern for the next two months! I’m super excited to be working with Jay, Hazel, and the rest of the BookThug gang. To tell you a bit about myself, I just finished classes at Centennial College in the Publishing program. Yay! I found it
- [Language would not exist without the body: In Conversation with Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/language-would-not-exist-without-the-body-in-conversation-with-sandra-ridley/) - Sandra Ridley's latest book, Silvija, is a sequence of five feverish elegies which combine narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. Pulsing
- [BookThugs Read: Our Fave Books of 2016, the Authors' Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-read-our-fave-books-of-2016-the-authors-edition/) - Today, we continue to look back on our year in reading. For Part 2 of BookThugs Read, we're turning things over to some of our wonderful authors to reflect on their favourite reads of 2016. While the year has certainly been a rough ride for many, there is no denying that 2016 was a great
- [BookThugs Read: Our Fave Books of 2016, The Editors' Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-read-our-fave-books-of-2016-the-editors-edition/) - 2016 has been a rough ride. In fact, for many of us it's been downright awful. But we won't revisit the reasons why (after all, we already know why....). In this latest edition of BookThugs Read our goal is to celebrate something good about the past year. In particular, we're paying tribute to some of
- [BookThugs Recommend: Holiday Reading](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-recommend-holiday-reading/) - Looking for the perfect book for that bibliophile on your holiday shopping list? Perhaps you're actually searching for your next great read? With the winter holidays upon us there's no better time to take a break from all the usual busyness, relax and curl up with a warm drink and a good book. In this
- [Sustained Momentum and Dream Logic: An Interview with Devon Code](https://bookhugpress.ca/sustained-momentum-and-dream-logic-an-interview-with-devon-code/) - In Involuntary Bliss, the first novel by Journey Prize winner Devon Code, a bond between three friends forms over a mutual fascination with an obscure Peruvian novella and is fractured by an accidental death. Set over one hazy weekend in late August, an unnamed narrator visits his troubled friend James in Montreal following a gap
- ['Being alive is hella complex and I want art that reflects that!': In Conversation with Mat Laporte](https://bookhugpress.ca/being-alive-is-hella-complex-and-i-want-art-that-reflects-that-in-conversation-with-mat-laporte/) - RATS NEST, the long-awaited debut book by Mat Laporte is a mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic sci-fi short story collection that builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st century. RATS NEST introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a self-reproducing
- [In Conversation: Stephen Thomas Discusses The Jokes](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-stephen-thomas-discusses-the-jokes/) - Stephen Thomas's debut book, The Jokes, is a collection of flash fiction stories full of surprises, humour and sincerity. Compared to Lydia Davis's writing, The Jokes was shortlisted for the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors of Contemporary Literature. In a review for The Globe and Mail, Pasha Malla wrote, “The Jokes invokes those seemingly banal experiences that unexpectedly suggest
- [BookThug Road Trip: Canadian Authors from Coast to Coast, Part 1](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-road-trip-canadian-authors-from-coast-to-coast-part-1/) - In celebration of Canada Day, and the first long weekend of summer, we're taking you on a two-part BookThug Summer Reading Recommendation Road Trip. Today, in Part 1, we depart from Newfoundland, head over to Nova Scotia, through New Brunswick and Quebec, and end up in Ontario. So crank up the radio, roll down the
- [BookThug Road Trip: Canadian Authors from Coast to Coast, Part 2](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-road-trip-canadian-authors-from-coast-to-coast-part-2/) - We're revving up the engine again today as we continue on the second half of our Summer Reading Recommendation Road Trip. Today, we head out from Ontario, and then travel west, making stops along the way in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Let's hit the road with these five BookThug Summer Road Trip picks!
- [BookThugs Recommend: Summer 2016 Reads, The Authors' Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-recommend-summer-2016-reads-the-authors-edition/) - BookThug authors are always busy. Whether they're promoting their latest book, performing at readings, giving interviews, writing new material, or managing the rest of their lives, they are always on the go. But even so, they still find time to constantly devour great new reads. If you're looking for your next summer read, here are
- [Pearl Pirie's the pet radish, shrunken is a finalist for the 2016 Archibald Lampman Award!](https://bookhugpress.ca/pearl-piries-the-pet-radish-shrunken-is-a-finalist-for-the-2016-archibald-lampman-award/) - Congratulations to Pearl Pirie! Arc Poetry Magazine have announced the 2015 Archibald Lampman Award finalists and we're thrilled that Pearl is shortlisted for her 3rd full collection, the pet radish, shrunken! Hurray, Pearl! Go radish, go! Credit: Brian Pirie the pet radish, shrunken deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie
- [In Conversation: Jess Taylor and Malcolm Sutton](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-jess-taylor-and-malcolm-sutton/) - Jess Taylor's critically acclaimed debut story collection, Pauls, was named an Amazon.ca Editors’ Best Book of 2015, a National Post “NP99” Best Book of 2015, a Kobo Best Canadian Book of 2015, a 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection and was a Quill and Quire “Best of 2015” Cover Design Selection. Additionally, "Breakfast Curry,"
- [In Conversation: Phil Hall Chats with Wanda Praamsma About his Latest Collection, Conjugation](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-phil-hall-chats-with-wanda-praamsma-about-his-latest-collection-conjugation/) - From award-winning poet, and our own senior poetry editor, Phil Hall, comes his latest collection of poetry, Conjugation. The term “conjugation” refers to more than the obvious grammatical movement of pronouns through time (I am / you are / they will be). For, in Biology, it also refers to the transfer of information between cells. Conjugation sees an
- [Letter from BookThug Publisher Jay MillAr](https://bookhugpress.ca/letter-from-bookthug-publisher-jay-millar/) - Hello Amazing Readers! We wanted to take a moment to let you know about some changes that are taking place at BookThug. These are mostly in response to the current social climate that we find ourselves in, one that brings to light certain issues around a perceived norm that we feel must be addressed. BookThug
- [In Conversation: Jennifer Zilm Discusses Waiting Room](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-jennifer-zilm-discusses-waiting-room/) - Take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featured in the CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection, and named one of 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry books, Zilm's work takes us into waiting rooms of all kinds. Featuring a mélange of styles and
- [In Conversation: Adrienne Gruber Discusses Buoyancy Control](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-adrienne-gruber-discusses-buoyancy-control/) - Adrienne Gruber's latest book, Buoyancy Control, takes us into watery depths in order to look at our own identities. Described as fierce, ecstatic, and not for the faint of heart, Buoyancy Control has been named a 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection, and is also a CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection. Buoyancy Control,
- [Spotlight on the Latest Issue of BafterC, Guest Edited by Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/spotlight-on-bafterc-vol-8-no-1/) - Today, we're shining the spotlight on BafterC Vol. 8 No 1, which was guest-edited by none other than Jess Taylor, author of the acclaimed debut story collection, Pauls. This NEW MOTION ISSUE of BafterC (with bold new design!) contains work by Spencer Gordon, Chad Campbell, Phoebe Wang, Dominique Bernier-Cormier, Mat Laporte, Jessie Jones, Jesse Eckerlin, JC Bouchard,
- [Long Weekend Reading: Five Books for the Long Weekend](https://bookhugpress.ca/long-weekend-reading-five-books-for-the-long-weekend/) - The May long weekend is a highlight of the spring for many of us, and whether you're relaxing at a cottage or unwinding in the city, a book that you just can't put down is always a welcome addition to your plans. Whether you like funny books or thrilling books, novels or poetry, here are five books that
- [Introducing BookThug's New Interns: Kelly and Stacey](https://bookhugpress.ca/introducing-bookthugs-new-interns-kelly-and-stacey/) - BookThug is welcoming some new interns this month: Kelly Duval and Stacey Seymour! We (Kelly and Stacey) are MA students at Ryerson’s Literatures of Modernity (MA) program, and we’ll be managing the blog for the next several weeks, as well as helping out at the BookThug headquarters. We’re both really excited to be here, and
- [In Conversation: Jacob Wren discusses Rich and Poor](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-jacob-wren-discusses-rich-and-poor/) - Described as stoic, surprising and provocative, Jacob Wren's latest book Rich and Poor was named a Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection by 49th Shelf. It was also been chosen as part of Quill and Quire's Spring 2016 Preview Selection and as part of Big Other’s Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016. Who hasn’t, at one time
- [Mother's Day 2016: Top 5 Recommended Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/mothers-day-2016-top-5-recommended-reading-list/) - Mother's day is coming up soon, and although moms (and dads) only get one official day a year, we all know they deserve so much more. In honour of the mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, and women and men who hold us all together, here are five books that feature and celebrate mothers,
- [News and Events from BookThug HQ: Week of May 2, 2016](https://bookhugpress.ca/news-and-events-from-bookthug-hq-week-of-may-2-2016/) - Happy Book Birthday to Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines, Sex/Blood/Loss & Selfies by Margaret Christakos! It's available now and just in time for Mother's Day! Heather Birrell reviews Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton for The Toronto Star. Birrell writes, “The questions that Sutton is asking are powerful; they illuminate the essential absurdity of our late capitalist milieu. What
- [News and Events for the Week of March 21, 2016](https://bookhugpress.ca/news-and-events-for-the-week-of-march-21-2016/) - News Check out The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree author Josh Massey's recommended reading list, "Locally Sourced" for 49th Shelf. Congratulations Carellin Brooks! One Hundred Days of Rain is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. The winners will be announced in NYC on April 21. Adèle Barclay reviews Double Teenage by
- [Spring Fiction PREVIEW: Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-job-shadowing-by-malcolm-sutton/) - Bookthug’s Spring Fiction Preview continues with Malcolm Sutton, a Toronto-based artist, writer and Bookthug’s very own fiction editor, and his debut novel Job Shadowing. A 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection, Job Shadowing invites readers on an original and fantastical journey through the perils of modern employment, across the self-consciousness of the echo
- [Talking Conjugation: Phil Hall on his latest book, Conjugation](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-talking-conjugation-blues-phil-hall-on-his-latest-book-conjugation/) - In Part 2 of our preview of Phil Hall's latest book, Conjugation, we're pleased to present an exclusive essay by Phil Hall. Enjoy! Talking Conjugation by Phil Hall . Otty Lake . Sept-Dec 2015 When I first get up, I am half asleep, it is still dark, my glasses are useless, most things don’t exist
- [Spring Poetry PREVIEW: My Dinosaur by François Turcot, Translated by Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-my-dinosaur-by-francois-turcot-translated-by-erin-moure/) - Photo Credit: William Benito Moure In 2013, François Turcot invited readers along on an archaeological journey in search for the remnants of his father. The mode of transportation: Mon Dinosaure, Turcot’s fourth book of poetry, released that year by Quebec publisher, La Peuplade. Mon Dinosaure contains several brief, exquisite poems, dug up and dusted with
- [International Women's Day 2016: 12 Women You Need to Read Now](https://bookhugpress.ca/international-womens-day-2016-10-women-you-need-to-read-now/) - Today is International Women’s Day 2016. Today we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women everywhere. In honour of #IWD2016, we’ve created a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers at BookThug, both emerging and established, that you need to read now. These 12 fierce and brilliant women push at boundaries in
- [Spring Poetry PREVIEW: Conjugation by Phil Hall](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-conjugation-by-phil-hall-part-1/) - Five kilometers southeast of Perth, ON, on the secluded shores of Otty Lake, poet Phil Hall sits on his porch in the predawn dark, notebook in hand, and observes the early morning’s transformations. As if he were taking dictation, Hall charts the precise progress of day --its transition from first greyness, to vague light then
- [Spring Fiction PREVIEW: The Jokes by Stephen Thomas](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-the-jokes-by-stephen-thomas/) - Question: How can we capture the complex drama of human existence -- its triumphs and defeats, its crossroads, vicissitudes of the heart, major and minor setbacks, all the good, the bad and the meh-- and reduce life's richness to a tweetable size? Answer: We can't. But we can read Stephen Thomas' The Jokes, and that may
- [Spring Poetry PREVIEW: The Mysterious Life of Gerard Legro](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-the-mysterious-life-of-gerard-legro/) - Photo: Studies Building, Black Mountain College. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Collection, Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina Asheville. Photo Credit: Harriet Sohmers Zwerling. BookThug’s Department of Reissue proudly presents Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro’s postmodern collection Poems by Gerard Legro, edited with an introduction by Alessandro Porco. This new release will provide
- [Love at First Sight: BookThug First Lines](https://bookhugpress.ca/love-at-first-sight-bookthug-first-lines/) - In honour of Valentine’s Day, we’re celebrating a special kind of love: book love, AKA bibliophilia. You know, that special kind of love you feel for the perfect book. Books, how do we love thee? Let’s count the ways. Some remain our long-time partner, accumulating through the years the affection of our handwritten notes, dog-ears,
- [FLIGHT(S): In Conversation With Chantal Neveu + Nathanaël](https://bookhugpress.ca/flights-in-conversation-with-chantal-neveu-nathanael/) - Que serait un entretien ou un polylogue sans interruption et sans quelque juxtaposition, sans un enchaînement un peu arbitraire ou aléatoire, sans une «association d'idées» que seule l'insignificance d'un «et» viendrait dire ou sous-entendre? —Jacques Derrida[1] From Montreal poet Chantal Neveu comes A Spectacular Influence, translated by Nathanaël. Drawing from philosophy (including Pre-Socratic materialists, Nietzsche, and
- [In Conversation: Brian Dedora and Martín Rodríguez-Gaona discuss Lorcation](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-brian-dedora-and-martin-rodriguez-gaona-discuss-lorcation/) - Federico Garcia Lorca 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 Garcia Lorca, of the basic elements in common between the Spanish writer’s life and his own, and of
- [In Conversation: Josh Massey Discusses The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-josh-massey-discusses-the-plotline-bomber-of-innisfree/) - Image Credit: Matt Inden/Miles for The Official Site of Colorado Tourism Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer, and a community of artists and eccentrics who all become suspects in a
- [In Conversation: Shannon Maguire Discusses Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-shannon-maguire-discusses-myrmurs-an-exploded-sestina/) - Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina is Shannon Maguire’s second book of poetry in her planned medievalist trilogy. Myrmurs uses the twelfth-century poetic form of the sestina as a starting point for the exploration of living systems. Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval
- [Meet Our Spring 2016 Season](https://bookhugpress.ca/meet-our-spring-2016-season/) - All of us at BookThug HQ are excited to share our superb Spring 2016 season with you. Between February and May, 10 new books will be coming your way, featuring novels, collections of poetry, and even a creative non fiction memoir, from new writers as well as several authors that are already familiar to our
- [BookThug's 2015 Year in Review](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-2015-year-in-review/) - Here at BookThug HQ, we can't believe it's already December 30! Today, we're looking back at our year in review and sneaking a peek at what lies ahead in 2016. While 2015 will soon be over, it won't soon be forgotten, for what a year it has been. BOOKTHUG'S YEAR IN REVIEW New Website and
- [Happy Holidays from BookThug!](https://bookhugpress.ca/happy-holidays-from-bookthug/) - Happy Holidays to all you good little BookThug boys and girls out there! From all of us at here at BookThug HQ, we hope that your holidays are merry and bright, and filled with friends, family and books! As a special treat, here’s a new poem from Pearl Pirie, author of the pet radish, shrunken,
- [Designer Spotlight: Kate Hargreaves](https://bookhugpress.ca/designer-spotlight-kate-hargreaves/) - The multi-talented Kate Hargreaves (aka, Pain Eyre), author of Leak (BookThug, Fall 2014), is also an extremely talented book designer (not to mention a skilled roller derby player-now do you get the Pain Eyre reference?). Formerly the in-house book designer at Biblioasis, Hargreaves’ designs will be instantly familiar to many, given the fact that she designed TWO
- [BookThug's Best Reads of 2015, The Authors' Edition](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-best-reads-of-2015-the-authors-edition/) - With 2015 soon coming to a close, and "best of" book lists appearing everywhere, it's no surprise that we're looking back on our favourite reads of the year. As per BookThug tradition, we asked a group of BookThug authors to share the Top 5 books they read this year. Samuel Andreyev, Pearl Pirie, Kate Hargreaves, Jean Marc
- [BookThugs Recommend: Books for the Holiday Season](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-recommend-books-for-the-holiday-season/) - We asked some BookThug authors the following question: What book would you give as a gift this holiday season? Below are unique and intriguing picks from Mike Steeves, Steven Ross Smith, Jacob Wren, Julie Joosten and Alex Porco. Mike Steeves, author of Giving Up, recommends Debt: The First 5000 Years (Melville House Publishing) by David
- [In Conversation: Jean Marc Ah-Sen discusses Grand Menteur](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-jean-marc-ah-sen-discusses-grand-menteur/) - From debut author Jean Marc Ah-Sen, Grand Menteur is a unique and ambitious first novel that glimpses into the inner workings of a Mauritian street gang. Recently selected by The Globe and Mail as a Globe 100 Best Book of 2015, book columnist Jade Colbert wrote "Ah-Sen’s novel of a young woman growing up in Mauritius’s
- [#ReadWomen: A Recommended Reading List](https://bookhugpress.ca/readwomen2015-a-recommended-reading-list/) - This year, thanks to the Twitter campaigns #ReadWomen and #ReadWomen2015, book lovers everywhere have been encouraged to read more books written by women. We fully support such a great and worthwhile endeavour and hope that readers everywhere will take up the challenge. Here is just a sampling of BookThug’s #ReadWomen recommended reading list of compelling
- [In Conversation: Brian Dedora discusses Lorcation](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-brian-dedora-discusses-lorcation/) - 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 Garcia Lorca, of the basic elements in common between the Spanish writer’s life and his own, and of the tragic grandeur
- [The BookThug Holiday Gift Guide](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-bookthug-holiday-gift-guide/) - Looking for the perfect book for your loved ones this holiday season? The BookThug Team is here to help! For Your Best Friend Pauls by Jess Taylor features ten poignant stories about different men and women named Paul as they love, lose and yearn. There is something for everyone in this critically-acclaimed debut which Heather
- [In Conversation: Samuel Andreyev discusses The Relativistic Empire](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-samuel-andreyev-discusses-the-relativistic-empire/) - 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. A 49th Shelf "Most Anticipated 2015 Fall
- [No Work Finished Here: The World of Andy Warhol](https://bookhugpress.ca/no-work-finished-here-and-the-world-of-andy-warhol/) - BookThug is proud to present Liz Worth’s fourth book, a collection of poetry titled No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. No Work Finished Here is a reworking of Andy Warhol’s a, A Novel, published in 1968 and based on interviews recorded in Warhol’s Factory over a two-year period. The “novel” is made up of unedited
- [In Conversation: Steven Ross Smith discusses Emanations: fluttertongue 6](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-steven-ross-smith-discusses-emanations-fluttertongue-6/) - From Steven Ross Smith, one of Canada’s preeminent sound poets, comes Emanations: fluttertongue 6, the latest installment in Smith’s ongoing life-poem series. Emanations: fluttertongue 6 marks Smith’s return to verse form, while being a further engagement with composition by sound and its visual placement on the page. In poems that “emanate” from specific works by other poets (including bpNichol,
- [Video Playlist: BookThug Fall 2015 Launch Party](https://bookhugpress.ca/video-playlist-bookthug-fall-2015-launch-party/) - BookThug's Fall 2015 launch party at The Garrison on April 13th brought together BookThugs from across the GTA and beyond to celebrate the launch and release of nine new innovative titles. With readings of poetry and fiction to an enthusiastic audience, the night was captured on film by our media guru, John Schmidt. ❧ Joining
- [Top 5 Reasons to Read A by Giller Prize winner André Alexis](https://bookhugpress.ca/5-reasons-to-read-a-by-giller-prize-winner-andre-alexis/) - Photo credits: Deborah Dundas In Fall 2013, BookThug had the honour of published André's novella A. André Alexis has described his fictional terrain as “the shifting ground between the imagined life and the life that you live in from day to day.” There’s no better representation of this than the compelling narrative in A, where Alexander Baddeley,
- [Pauls of History and the Pauls Book Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/pauls-of-history-and-the-pauls-book-launch/) - Calling all Pauls! Tonight we officially kick off #paulsmania with the launch of Jess Taylor's debut story collection, Pauls, at the Steady Cafe in Toronto. We're looking forward to a night of celebration with music, snacks, giveaways, readings and, of course, Pauls. Pauls by Jess Taylor is a collection of short stories about different people named
- [Fall Poetry PREVIEW: A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu, translated by Nathanaël](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-poetry-preview-a-spectacular-influence-by-chantal-neveu-translated-by-nathanael/) - 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](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 Poetry PREVIEW:  Huckleberry Finn by Martí Sales](https://bookhugpress.ca/fall-poetry-preview-huckleberry-finn-by-marti-sales/) - Enter the world as seen through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn—a weary and defeated landscape, but one of inherent hope, where reinvention is possible through the seminal power of words, those elemental beings that are capable of creating realities all their own. There’s sex, there’s drugs, and there’s rock’n’roll—and all the while, there’s a young
- [Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a Finalist for the QWF 2015 Awards!](https://bookhugpress.ca/giving-up-by-mike-steeves-is-a-finalist-for-the-qwf-2015-awards/) - BookThug is very pleased to announce that Mike Steeves’s first novel Giving Up is a Finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation 2015 Concordia University First Book Award! Yesterday, in the Montreal Gazette, Ian McGillis wrote "Steeves’ book was one of the best-reviewed Canadian debuts of recent years; many were surprised when it didn’t make the national
- [Fall Fiction PREVIEW: Grand Menteur by Jean Marc Ah-Sen](https://bookhugpress.ca/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](https://bookhugpress.ca/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](https://bookhugpress.ca/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](https://bookhugpress.ca/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](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-bookthugs-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](https://bookhugpress.ca/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
- [Introducing BookThug's Fall 2015 Season!](https://bookhugpress.ca/introducing-bookthugs-fall-2015-season/) - As we approach the ides of August, thoughts turn to the Fall 2015 literary season. BookThug is proud to present a stellar lineup of adventurous new books, with fiction from Jess Taylor, Josh Massey, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen, poetry from Liz Worth, Brian Dedora, Steven Ross Smith, Samuel Andreyev, and Shannon Maguire, as well as a
- [Fall Poetry PREVIEW: Emanations: fluttertongue 6 by Steven Ross Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/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](https://bookhugpress.ca/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
- [In Conversation: Jay Gamble discusses Book of Knots](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-jay-gamble-discusses-book-of-knots/) - From Canadian poet and academic Jay Gamble comes this special release from BookThug’s Boondoggle imprint: Book of Knots, a highly playful and deceptively musical book-length meditation on the poetics of nothingness. Taking W.H. Auden’s famous remark that “poetry does nothing” to its radical-but-logical conclusion, Book of Knots resorts to what Gamble calls “extreme forms of not-writing.” By confronting supposedly negative
- [BookThugs Recommend:  Summer 2015 Reading Lists](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthugs-recommend-summer-2015-reading-lists/) - Summer reading is a distinctly marked species in the great genus Reading: a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work. Surly study has its dignities and claims: stiff-backed, hard-seated study, that makes no luxury of books, but quarries them, and digs or blasts material for solid uses. But there must also be
- [In Conversation: Malcolm Sutton talks with Mike Steeves about his debut novel, Giving Up](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-malcolm-sutton-talks-with-mike-steeves-about-his-debut-novel-giving-up/) - Mike Steeves' new novel Giving Up is an uproarious, unrelenting look inside a contemporary middle-class relationship. Taking place over the course of two or three hours on a deceptively inauspicious evening in a non-descript, unnamed city, the novel, Steeves' first, has the rare immediacy of a play—only turned inside out. Much of the action here is internal,
- [In Conversation: Malcolm Sutton talks with Carellin Brooks about her new novel One Hundred Days of Rain](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-malcolm-sutton-talks-with-carellin-brooks-about-her-new-novel-one-hundred-days-of-rain/) - Carellin Brooks’s acclaimed new novel One Hundred Days of Rain chronicles an unnamed narrator's struggle to rebuild her life in the aftermath of a violent breakup. Set in the profoundly rainy city of Vancouver, each short, elegant chapter (99 in total) is a rainy day, or a rainy moment of a day in the life of the unnamed
- [A BookThug's Guide to BookThug's Spring 2015 Book Launch & Party AT THE GARRISON](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-bookthugs-guide-to-bookthugs-spring-2015-book-launch-party-at-the-garrison/) - The Big Day is almost here! BookThug is about to launch it's 2015 Spring Season! Come by the Garrison (1197 Dundas St. West, Toronto) this Thursday evening to watch a brilliant band of BookThugs read from their brand new books. Then stay for a drink, and help up raise a toast to these wonderful things made of spines
- [Spring PREVIEW: Suzanne Leblanc's The Thought House of Philippa, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei & Ingrid Pam Dick](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-preview-suzanne-leblancs-the-thought-house-of-philippa-translated-by-oana-avasilichioaei-ingrid-pam-dick/) - Multidisciplinary artist Suzanne Leblanc’s work occupies the space where philosophy and contemporary art converge. For several decades, her research, writings and visual art exhibitions have focused on the interconnectedness between philosophical forms and the artistic disciplines: how the architecture of human understanding informs creative endeavour. In her acclaimed novel, The Thought House of Philippa (originally
- [Spring fiction PREVIEW: Giving Up, the debut novel by Mike Steeves](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-fiction-preview-giving-up-the-debut-novel-by-mike-steeves/) - "Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping existence by virtue of faith.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Giving Up, the hotly anticipated debut novel
- [Spring drama PREVIEW: Little Death, a new play by award-winning playwright Daniel Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-drama-preview-little-death-a-new-play-by-award-winning-playwright-daniel-karasik/) - Introducing the newest member of the BookThug family: award-winning playwright and author Daniel Karasik! BookThug is thrilled to publish his new play, Little Death, just in time to coincide with its World Premiere at the Theatre Centre in Toronto, ON, from April 17-May 3, 2015. Little Death goes on sale April 17th from BookThug (pre-order here). Today on the BookThug
- [Spring poetry PREVIEW: kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s Their Biography: an organism of relationships](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-poetry-preview-kevin-mcpherson-eckhoffs-their-biography-an-organism-of-relationships/) - Who is kevin mcpherson eckhoff, aka kme, aka KMac? Poet? Performer? Beloved trickster of the Canadian conceptual poetry scene? BFF of Jake Kennedy? He is most certainly the author of three books of poetry, including Rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 2010), Easy Peasy (Invisible Publishing, 2011) and Forge (Invisible Publishing, 2013). His chapbook, Game Show Reversed,
- [STEVE McCAFFERY's ALICE IN PLUNDERLAND - APPENDIX I: A GLOSSARY OF TERMS](https://bookhugpress.ca/steve-mccafferys-alice-in-plunderland-appendix-i-a-glossary-of-terms/) - In anticipation of this week's dual launches of Steve McCaffery's new book, Alice in Plunderland, illustrated by Clelia Scala (NOW AVAILABLE), BookThug is proud to present a special appendix to this spectacular new take on the Lewis Carroll classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year). The book launches tonight (Wednesday, March 18th) at Videofag in Toronto, and Thursday, March 19th at
- [Spring poetry PREVIEW: three poems from Jake Kennedy's forthcoming collection Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play](https://bookhugpress.ca/spring-previews-jake-kennedy-merz-structure-no-2-burnt-by-children-at-play/) - In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later, as an adult, he read a story about how the German artist Kurt Schwitters’ “interior house-sculpture” (“Merz Structure No. 2”) was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad ‘unmaking’ became the inspiration for Merz
- [BookThug Spring 2015 Launch Party: The Ultimate Video Playlist](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-spring-2015-launch-party-the-ultimate-video-playlist/) - Clocking in at ten (count-'em, ten!) adventurous, innovative titles, Spring 2015 was BookThug's biggest season ever. Authors came from far and wide for the Spring Launch Party in Toronto, and BookThug supporters came out in droves to ring in the new season. Happily, our indispensable media guru John Schmidt was there to document the event. ❧ Opening
- [Highlights from BookThug’s spring/summer events: Guest blogger Emma Hambly on her time interning at BookThug](https://bookhugpress.ca/highlights-from-bookthugs-springsummer-events-guest-blogger-emma-hambly-on-her-time-interning-at-bookthug/) - Dear blog readers: my name is Emma Hambly and I’m here this week to give a small recap of my time at BookThug. My master’s program at Ryerson allowed us to complete our degree with a placement at a creative company, and I was lucky enough to intern at BookThug. I spent an engrossing two
- [BookThug presents: a special limited edition of two stories and an essay from Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-presents-a-special-limited-edition-of-two-stories-and-an-essay-from-jacob-wren/) - In honour of the inaugural Authors For Indies Day on May 2, 2015, BookThug teamed up with Toronto bookstore Type Books to produce a limited edition publication of two stories and an essay by Jacob Wren entitled If our wealth is criminal then let's live with the criminal joy of pirates. Canadian Authors for Indies Day is a celebration
- [The Pride of BookThug: Read Proud!](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-pride-of-bookthug-read-proud/) - Happy Pride Weekend to all! With Pride Week 2015 celebrations taking place coast-to-coast this weekend, we're celebrating with a selection of LGBTQ authored books we are proud to have published. Live Proud. Love Proud. Read Proud.
- [In Conversation: Lisa Gordon speaks to her new chapbook, Moving In With the Dalai Lama](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-lisa-gordon-speaks-to-her-new-chapbook-moving-in-with-the-dalai-lama/) - The poems of Moving In With the Dalai Lama, the debut chapbook by Lisa Gordon, hide in the interstices of language, and are anchored in the tentative relationships that surround us—so in a sense they aren’t anchored at all. A poetics of indeterminacy is here, a call & response as in ghazals, yet a call
- [In Conversation: Rachel Rose talks about her new collection Thirteen Ways of Looking at CanLit](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-rachel-rose-talks-about-her-new-collection-thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-canlit/) - Thirteen Ways of Looking at CanLit, the new chapbook by Vancouver's Poet Laureate Rachel Rose burns fiercely in its righteous fury at the unbridled misogyny, homophobia and racism that is quietly condoned in our literary community. Here, critical bigotry becomes a tool of analysis, a text in which Rachel Rose romps and riffs, deconstructs and
- [In Conversation: Robert Anderson talks about his new chapbook The Hospital Poems](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-sitting-down-with-robert-anderson-to-talk-about-his-new-collection-the-hospital-poems/) - In Robert Anderson’s debut chapbook The Hospital Poems, the ward becomes the world, becomes the word, becomes the war. Drawing the reader into the strained intimacies of hospital halls and personal and social breakdown, Anderson’s fragmented, fragmenting poems are “spills/spells of narrative” that brilliantly sabotage the institutional from the inside. Selected for BookThug’s Summer Chapbook
- [Goodreads Book Giveaway for the pet radish, shrunken by Pearl Pirie](https://bookhugpress.ca/goodreads-book-giveaway-for-the-pet-radish-shrunken/) - Goodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 3 copies of Pearl Pirie’s fabulous poetry collection the pet radish, shrunken. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book American poet Eduardo Corral describes as being "Charged with innovative and lyrical energies," and "a gorgeous rebellion.” Contest closes at midnight on June 21, 2015. Open to Canadian
- ["National Poetry Month" #15: Chantal Neveu, translation by Angela Carr](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-15-chantal-neveu-translation-by-angela-carr/) - from Coït 1 I come in from where I leave I come in you point to where you want me to enter I come in when I come out you know where I was where I am no longer in a way you see after the gestures your nerves one by one your genes neurons
- [In Conversation: Helen Guri discusses her new chapbooks, Here Come the Waterworks and Microphone Lessons for Poets](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-helen-guri-discusses-her-new-chapbooks-here-come-the-waterworks-and-microphone-lessons-for-poets/) - This month BookThug is launching two chapbooks by poet Helen Guri. Of her poetry chapbook Here Come the Waterworks, Helen writes, “Here come the waterworks” is in most contexts an accusation that someone is about to cry profusely in order to manipulate people. But since anyone who is paying attention ought to be crying profusely
- [THOU by Aisha Sasha John is a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry!](https://bookhugpress.ca/thou-by-aisha-sasha-john-is-a-finalist-for-the-trillium-book-award-for-poetry/) - BookThug is very pleased to announce that Aisha Sasha John's acclaimed 2014 collection THOU is a Finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Ontario's leading award for literature! Established in 1987 to recognize the excellence of Ontario writers and writing, the Trillium Book Award is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children's
- [In Conversation: Wanda Praamsma interviews Lesley Battler about her poetic debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-wanda-praamsma-interviews-lesley-battler-about-her-poetic-debut-endangered-hydrocarbons/) - Lesley Battler's debut collection Endangered Hydrocarbons channels the poet's personal experience as an employee of Shell Oil into an ingenious suite of poems confronting the extent and the implications of oil production in Canada. As a veteran of Big Oil, Battler is able to write from the unique perspective of the poet-insider. Appropriating the corporate and scientific language of oil extraction
- [Goodreads Book Giveaway for Giving Up](https://bookhugpress.ca/goodreads-book-giveaway-for-giving-up/) - Goodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 3 copies of Mike Steeves’ stunning debut novel Giving Up. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book Miriam Toews calls "a brilliant, singular voice in Can Lit: funny and fresh and fast!” Contest closes on March 22, 2015. Open to Canadian residents only.
- [In Conversation: Wanda Praamsma talks with Pearl Pirie about her new collection the pet radish, shrunken ](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-conversation-wanda-praamsma-talks-with-pearl-pirie-about-her-new-collection-the-pet-radish-shrunken/) - The lyrics populating Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie's new collection, the pet radish, shrunken, buzz with oblique wisdom and surgically sharp wit. Cicadas chirp from beneath the troposphere; secret agent squirrels conspire among the peonies at sunset; revelatory reversals and unfamiliar aphorisms grow like wild flowers. Playing on themes of love and relationships, future-politics of the English language and the current
- [Phil Hall talks with R. Kolewe about his debut collection Afterletters](https://bookhugpress.ca/phil-hall-talks-with-r-kolewe-about-his-debut-collection-afterletters/) - Afterletters by R. Kolewe is a collection of poems that works with and through the writings of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan. In the following interview, BookThug's Poetry Editor Phil Hall talks with poet R. Kolewe about the relationship between Bachmann and Celan, the relationship Kolewe has to them, about romance and research and about
- [International Women's Day 2015: 13 Women of BookThug You Need to Read](https://bookhugpress.ca/international-womens-day-2015-13-women-of-bookthug-you-need-to-read/) - Meet the amazing women of BookThug. In honour of International Women's Day 2015, we've put together a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers, both emerging and established, we think you need to read. These 13 brilliant and fierce women push at boundaries in unexpected ways, and take you, the reader, to places you never
- [Goodreads Book Giveaway For One Hundred Days of Rain](https://bookhugpress.ca/goodreads-book-giveaway-for-one-hundred-days-of-rain/) - Goodreads is hosting a BookThug book giveaway for 5 Advanced Reading Copies of Carellin Brooks' stunning debut novel One Hundred Days of Rain. Enter for your chance to win a copy of the book that Publishers' Weekly calls “a delectable, mesmerizing, and poetic debut novel." Contest opens at midnight on February 16, and closes on
- [Vibrant, exciting, and playfully challenging: Meet Our Terrific Spring 2015 season](https://bookhugpress.ca/vibrant-exciting-and-playfully-challenging-meet-our-terrific-spring-2015-season/) - Vibrant, exciting, and playfully challenging: Meet Our Terrific Spring 2015 season We’re so excited to share our absolutely fabulous spring 2015 lineup. We're launching 9 new titles that represent a cross-range of poetry, fiction, and entre-genre categories, on subject matter as distinctive as the writers themselves. Each of these works joins in our already existing
- [Hello world!](https://bookhugpress.ca/hello-world-2/) - Greetings, Thugs! Welcome to the new BookThug Blog, where we will begin posting, for the month of April (known to some as "National Poetry Month"), some poems from our books for you to read. And then, when "National Poetry Month" is over, we'll just keep at it, posting excerpts, news, thoughts, photos, and (hopefully) feature
- ["National Poetry Month" #1: Andrew McEwan](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-1-andrew-mcewan/) - from error language An error has occurred. Diffusion immediately pops into daylight. Particular mechanisms arrange awkward in neural network. Hands’ persistent toggle. Scan log is memory. Constellations of interpretation as patterns unfold. The fate of moving light implicates further ink. Incongruous embodiment. An error of handling language becomes an error of error-language. Descriptive standard defaults
- ["National Poetry Month" #2: Bryan Sentes](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-2-bryan-sentes/) - what the hell do you mean by heaven heavin heathen breathn heather "Hell above & heaven below..." such, space-time diurinal yes for us on earth gravitygrievousgrave at apartment cornerwriting deskwalled in after noonafter lunchwalked home Marchblue skyleafless branchesmould loam paths a clean drystone seatleft closed eyes hearI've readblood & nerves jet roar overmountainfootdowntown aborealspringbirdsong dryleafmould
- ["National Poetry Month" #3: Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-3-julie-joosten/) - Ghost Species Henry David Thoreau would describe the seasons, listing the flowering times of wildflowers around Concord Massachusetts (1851-1858). It continues today: the data, the occasional field, the wildflowers, declining. Temperatures warm, and surviving species flower now about seven days earlier than they did in the mid-nineteenth century. Species sensitive to temperature have been best
- ["National Poetry Month" #4: Michael Boughn](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-4-michael-boughn/) - The Mad Trapper of Rat River Most people engaged in either extraordinary chase associated with normal forms of etiquette or some other enforcement of regular outcomes will find the whole thing impaled on assumptions of closure’s infinite grace. The names have been eliminated to perform evasions of severe paralysis arising from expectations of a statutory
- ["National Poetry Month" #5: Nicole Markotić](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-5-nicole-markotic/) - Adjectives and Adverbs Seven Monks with European accents kneel blessedly on the even stone, weep regularly beside the last corner, sigh Protect the vital months, pause gayly at the beginning of the second page, wait for a new pronoun in the mirror-tricked corridor Include the bent people who only bend their knees one at a
- ["National Poetry Month" #6: Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-6-sandra-ridley/) - From “Testamonium”, The Counting House XV. You began with love. Unfailing. Intended invariably. Love always involves a degree of pain. In that. Constancy. The possessor never explicitly admitted or denied. Nor alleviated. The discreet lasts only a moment. Comes vengeful. The morning before. The decline. The spectacle. Your hold on her body shall not entirely
- ["National Poetry Month" #7: Michael Woods](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-7-michael-woods/) - from World News Story A man out in the City who lost his information technology job three weeks before had to sign on to the dole for the first time in my life every job I apply for there’s already a hundred fifty who have applied before you end up having to pay your mortgage
- ["National Poetry Month" #8: Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-8-beatriz-hausner/) - External Mutation Still, I am relentlessly drawn to these outward signs of inward subversion. I lust for women who show signs of intensity. Who are not afraid of extremes… I want a woman who wants me, and my attention and my care, in an intense way... – Russell Smith There is dominance in submission and
- ["National Poetry Month" #9: Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-9-erin-moure/) - PILLAGE 2 (“High Prairie”) – from Pillage Laud by Erín Moure for you who validated the earth with your ferocityWit – whom were you seizing?To read was so comfortable a strip betweenthe version and your trick. Every obligation quite burns.Ferocity is belonging, and you understand this. After we are certain plants &ndash: coalescent –the
- ["National Poetry Month" #10: Victor Coleman](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-10-victor-coleman/) - From MAL ARME G Independent of a Debate on Form for Kate (in the key of) Because true works (as I often say) in the official canon, have leapt into the line as it has always been: fluid, to be bold where the division of the line was independent. It represents a product: French prosody; an
- ["National Poetry Month" #11: Cara Benson](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-11-cara-benson/) - from (made) Pile of feathers like raked leaves every child dives into and tosses up to fall as wings between arms and waist. Gathered mounds about the yard. White goose. Soft, not scratchy like autumn. The trees bare their envy and mothers call their birds in to dinner. Nests, eggs, and basted dinner. Hungrier in
- ["National Poetry Month" #12: Phil Hall](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-12-phil-hall/) - from THANKS ALL THE SAME Where #7's survey tangent cuts across the old lumber draw-roads through limestone highlands to the Ottawa a starling picks at a blood-orange thrown half-eaten to the gravel from a car ages away now up close – outcrops do down pink & grey profiles in shadow to the north – unclaimed
- ["National Poetry Month" #13: Christine McNair](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-13-christine-mcnair/) - A FOOL'S GRACE bed me with lavender tattoo some cuneiform abjad into cardiac vessels hot cut radiance blister packed, a two-for-one offer of woad bled over bit lip, wrinkled stems pollinate broken umbrellas, debride torn silk back into lovers’ spit, pacify capillaries but just let go: release my feckless heart full punch to the ticker
- ["National Poetry Month" #14: Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-14-stephen-cain/) - ABC: AN AMAZING ALPHABET BOOK! A is for Althusser B is for Barthes C is for Capital D for Descartes E is for Eliot’s mermaid that sings F’s for Foucault who wrote The Order of Things G is for Gramsci who in prison still wrote a book H is for Hegel who’s well worth a
- ["National Poetry Month" #16: David Dowker & Christine Stewart](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-16-david-dowker-christine-stewart/) - a breach (amphibrach) object ache* each abject stratification collapses in the culmination which brings us to the apex of the inverse aversion, spiritualized app- liances hap- hazardly rap- tured, tri- geminal peripherals vibrate or gesticulate, a squip quinty or cryogene plasmate, cryptic inarticulate acetate say golgi embodiment raised inchoate waferthin instrumentality be that as it
- ["National Poetry Month" #17: Kim Minkus](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-17-kim-minkus/) - 3 nonets from “24 Nonets After Reading Edward Byrne’s Sonnets: Louise Labé” 7 Lying spirit tightly strung you are most dangerous with all the points of your desire I come gently into hazard pure terrible burning pain half hard – the other cruel a thousand parts to cry over afternoons of grief cruel and therefore
- ["National Poetry Month" #18: Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-18-gary-barwin-gregory-betts/) - from The Obvious Flap I am not a slack bard, I don't want a chorus. Here under the bird world, there is movement between h and m, between humans and l, like the grind of continents as it begins to rain. I rush from one drop to the next, holding my breath in song. Thus
- ["National Poetry Month" #19: Colin Fulton](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-19-colin-fulton/) - Friendship You can say it. Our friendship concluded conceptually over the course of several uneventful weeks, and our poems lent recognition to and provided impetus for many world movements. Long before my receptive friend and I could formulate a response, and considering that we had once again failed to meet quorum (despite how very pleasant
- ["National Poetry Month" #20: David B. Goldstein](https://bookhugpress.ca/national-poetry-month-20-david-b-goldstein/) - WHAT LUCY USED TO BE What Lucy used to be, I now am. Or rather, I accommodate her foibles; they live on in me now that she is gone. For instance: the thin switch of the horse’s tail. The barn before sunrise, cold as oats. Trepidation in a nearby thrush. We believe that the dust
- ["National Poetry Month" #21: Shannon Maguire](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 of recent accidents and a Book of Hours of detentions at the crossings a small log with names encumbering just beyond the air-stream planes landing amid various species of
- ["National Poetry Month" #22: Aisha Sasha John](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 scared, maybe, to show all my elegance how time didn’t halt it. over a season having passed and I’m ripe here still with elegance I’m
- [Welcome, Autumn.](https://bookhugpress.ca/welcome-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 also happens to be the most exciting season for literature, with launches, prizes, fairs, and festivals happening all over the place, all the time. It
- [Weekly roundup, October 10-18](https://bookhugpress.ca/weekly-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 10. Featured events: THURSDAY OCTOBER 10 Deadline: Puritan Magazine’s Second Annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence | Fiction up to 12,000 words, poetry
- [Author in Profile: Colin Fulton](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-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 ok with the latter. So extrapolating from that, the best thing about being a macaron is the complete lack of demands made of you, and
- [Weekly Roundup, Oct 18-25](https://bookhugpress.ca/weekly-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. | Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge Street | An evening of reading from BookThug authors Karen Mac Cormack and Shannon Maguire | FREE Sunday October
- [Author in Profile: Michael Blouin](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-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 is labeled simply “A Fiction,” landing, as it does, in some happy grey area between a novel and poetry. It’s not poetry, though. It’s a
- [Author in Profile: Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-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 everything is light once we learn to see by it. To honor the field we should “leave the field,” but this book we should never
- [Author in Profile: Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 General Tale” Sandra Ridley composes silence, a considered hush, and a tension so taut that it hums. – rob mclennan Sanrda Ridley’s most recent collection
- [Interview with Stan Dragland, author of DEEP TOO](https://bookhugpress.ca/interview-with-stan-dragland-author-of-deep-too/) - As for Deep Too, I didn’t set out to write a book about anything in particular. In fact I didn’t set out to write a book. I started writing out some stories that happened to fall together on the subject of male washrooms – odd experiences I’ve had that were mostly funny. I used to
- [Weekly Roundup, Nov 8-15](https://bookhugpress.ca/weekly-roundup-nov-8-15/) - BookThug’s weekly roundup brings together workshops, events, readings, and deadlines happening (Friday to Friday) in the GTA. Friday November 8 Book Launch: Strip by Andrew Binks | 6:00 p.m. | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street | Nightwood Editions presents a launch for Andrew Binks’ novel Strip | FREE Saturday November 9 OTTAWA:
- [Author in Profile: Stan Dragland](https://bookhugpress.ca/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 Dragland is a talented, prolific, critically acclaimed, and widely respected author who just wrote a book full of penis jokes. Deep Too, one of BookThug’s
- [Join us at the Indie Literary Market this Saturday, Nov 16](https://bookhugpress.ca/join-us-at-the-indie-literary-market-this-saturday-nov-16/) - This Saturday, November 16, Meet the Presses will present its Fall 2013 Indie Literary Market. This curated event will showcase small Canadian literary presses and magazines, from the tiniest micropresses to the biggest of the small, from noon to 4:30 p.m. at the Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Street). Participating presses and zines will have books,
- [Weekly Roundup Nov 15-21](https://bookhugpress.ca/weekly-roundup-nov-15-21/) - Friday November 15 Launch: The Stories That Are Great Within Us | Nov 15 & 16, 6:00 p.m. | Windup Bird Café, 382 College Steet | Enjoy dinner, drinks, and readings from a variety of authors to celebrate the publication of a book that took over three years in the making. Reading authors include Austin
- [Author in Profile: David B. Goldstein](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-in-profile-david-b-goldstein/) - While I was writing [Laws of Rest], I felt that all language was alive…I don’t get too concerned with how my work fits together—I just try to explore fully whatever compels me, and hope that I end up in a place I didn’t anticipate. —David B. Goldstein David B. Goldstein is one of BookThug’s three
- [Weekly Roundup November 23-29](https://bookhugpress.ca/weekly-roundup-november-23-29/) - Saturday November 23 Launch: Dragnet Issue 9 | 8:00 p.m. | Smiling Buddha Bar, 961 College Street | Featuring readings from Evan Munday, Catriona Wright, and Bardia Sinaee | $5 Sunday November 24 Toronto Poetry Slam | 8:00 p.m., sign up at 7:30 | The Drake Underground, | Twelve slam poets compete against each other
- [From Michael Blouin: The Thing about Ice Fishing is that it's Cold as a Dead Bastard and You Hardly Ever Catch Any Fish](https://bookhugpress.ca/from-michael-blouin-the-thing-about-ice-fishing-is-that-its-cold-as-a-dead-bastard-and-you-hardly-ever-catch-any-fish/) - “I never like to see a man in a suit, you know what I mean? A man in a suit is up to something I think. And it’s never something good. Unless he’s dead. And even then…” I’m ice fishing. Ice fishing is like a code phrase for drinking outside in the winter. “You’re saying
- [From Julie Joosten: The mind as a mood of weathers](https://bookhugpress.ca/from-julie-joosten-the-mind-as-a-mood-of-weathers/) - I’m always curious to know what other people are reading. I love encountering the texts they choose to read or are obsessed by or wade into or simply find themselves reading. Reading opens onto territories at once intimate and impersonal. To me, this is extraordinary. Reading disentangles subjectivity from feeling and offers the lapsing of
- [Interview with Sandra Ridley, author of THE COUNTING HOUSE](https://bookhugpress.ca/329/) - Daydreaming isn’t a waste of time. It’s not idle or lazy time for a writer. It’s an essential activity, a pure form of creative work. That’s my favourite part—sitting still, or better yet, lying back and daydreaming. I don’t have to be defensive about it. It’s useful and productive to be still and to be
- [Holidays à la BookThug](https://bookhugpress.ca/holidays-a-la-bookthug/) - It's currently the season for a lot of things—like spending exorbitant amounts of money on yourself and on other people and on food and on things nobody really needs—but most excitingly, 'tis the season to read. What else would you do with your time off? BookThug wants to help with this. From now until January
- [Weekly Roundup December 6 - 13](https://bookhugpress.ca/weekly-roundup-december-6-13/) - Don’t forget: all existing BookThug titles, including the 2013 frontlist, are on sale for 30% off the cover price until January 2, 2014. Buy them here! Friday December 6 Toronto Poetry Slam | 8:00 p.m. sign-up at 7:30 | The Drake Underground, 1150 Queen Street West | A three-round slam competition open to anyone, featuring
- [From David B. Goldstein: on Laws of Rest](https://bookhugpress.ca/from-david-b-goldstein-on-laws-of-rest/) - Laws of Rest was conceived as an elegy of sorts for my friend Jordan Berlant, who died of cancer in 2002, at the age of 31. Soon after his death, I began writing these poems. I moved to New York, in the mid-1990s, because my friend Michael suggested I could crash on the futon in
- [An Interview With Guadalupe Muro on Air Carnation](https://bookhugpress.ca/an-interview-with-guadalupe-muro-on-air-carnation/) - Guadalupe Muro is an Argentinian writer, producer and artist. Her first collection of poems, Con quién dormías? was published in 2007. Air Carnation is her first novel, and was actually written in English even though this is not her first language. As the story goes, Muro was travelling home from a visit to the United States,
- [Chus Pato & Erín Moure: A Conversation](https://bookhugpress.ca/chus-pato-erin-moure-a-conversation/) - What follows is a conversion that Chus Pato and Erín Moure conducted by email in February 2014 about about their forthcoming BookThug title Secession/Insecession. Erín: If you could sum up Secession in a few words, what would you say? Chus: There was once a cut; this cut existed in a bygone time, and it cut life
- [Some of Chris Eaton's Pi for Pi Day](https://bookhugpress.ca/some-of-chris-eatons-pi-for-pi-day/) - Please enjoy this excerpt from Chris Eaton that involves Pi, since it is March 14 -- also known as Pi Day. We have estimated that this might be 3.14 percent of the novel, but we are probably wrong about this. We aren't so great at maths. Enjoy! ChrisEaton-PiExcerpt If you would like all of Chris
- [Jacob Wren: An Interview with Malcolm Sutton](https://bookhugpress.ca/jacob-wren-an-interview-with-malcolm-sutton/) - BookThug's Fiction Editor Malcolm Sutton recently interviewed author Jacob Wren about his new novel Polyamorous Love Song, available imminently from BookThug. Read on to learn more about this unique philosophical novel about art and artists that is, of course, shot through with random acts of sex and violence. Malcolm Sutton: I’d like to situate Polyamorous Love
- [A Reading that Made “the Audience Feel Pure Joy”](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-reading-that-made-the-audience-feel-pure-joy/) - Greetings Faithful BookThugs -- we are pleased to introduce to you Puneet Dutt and Kristen Smith who are interning with us from Ryerson University's Literatures of Modernity program. As part of their work with BookThug they will be contributing to our blog on a regular basis with various goings on of the press. Enjoy!
- [Calgary: Loft 112 Opens!](https://bookhugpress.ca/calgary-loft-112-opens/) - Saturday May 10 was the Grand Opening for Loft 112, a new creative and literary space in Calgary’s East Village. Loft 112 is a commercial space/loft apartment that will serve as locus for the arts and academic community, for writers of all ages, all aesthetics: “Loft 112 is a creative hive where ideas are given
- [Broken-Winged Blackbirds: A Delicately Scripted Interview with Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/broken-winged-blackbirds-a-delicately-scripted-interview-with-sandra-ridley/) - “From literary to slam, formal to experimental, read, spoken, and performed, the Art Bar is open to all forms of poetry.” - Art Bar The Art Bar Poetry Series is Canada’s longest-running weekly poetry reading series. Since 1991, the Art Bar Poetry series has been showcasing both burgeoning and well-established poets from Canada and abroad. Although
- [“I Have Never Watched Pornography: Jacob Wren’s Interview Questionnaire” –11 Questions with the Author of Polyamorous Love Song](https://bookhugpress.ca/i-have-never-watched-pornography-jacob-wrens-interview-questionnaire-11-questions-with-the-author-of-polyamorous-love-song/) - One of the most interesting aspects of working as an intern at BookThug, is living and embodying the inspiring phrase “Literature of the Future.” Kristen and I are given complete creative freedom to push and develop our own ideas for the blog. One of the ideas we’ve come up with is a fun interview questionnaire
- [Life Actually or Never-Ending Frontiers -- The Jacob Wren Interview Part 2](https://bookhugpress.ca/life-actually-or-never-ending-frontiers-the-jacob-wren-interview-part-2/) - As promised, the following post is a follow-up interview with Jacob Wren, author of Polyamorous Love Song. The questions are based on Wren’s prior interview with BookThug’s Fiction Editor, Malcolm Sutton, on March 20, 2014. After catching up with Wren at the Pivot at The Press Club event on May 7, we just had to
- [In Translation of Secession / Insecession: A Dialogue Between Reader and Author](https://bookhugpress.ca/in-translation-of-secession-insecession-a-dialogue-between-reader-and-author/) - After reading Secession / Insecession, I was brimming with questions. Erín Moure graciously fielded my questions and provided some compelling answers! Read our exchange here: Kristen: So much of Secession / Insecession reads as a relative deterritorialization. You translate and move around Chus's text, as a jazz musician would improvise on a key. Can you describe your
- [A Night for the Books - Improvisational Sound Poetry with Aisha Sasha John](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-night-for-the-books-improvisational-sound-poetry-with-aisha-sasha-john/) - Friday, May 30 was a double bill of Improvisational Sound Poetry with Aisha Sasha John in concert with the Improvisational Sound Trio, Donkey Lopez. At Arraymusic, 155 Walnut Ave, the audience was dazzled by lyric and sound. Aisha Sasha John launched the evening into the mesosphere, where the shooting stars burn blindingly spectacular. Three musicians
- [May Busy-ness](https://bookhugpress.ca/may-busy-ness/) - There were a number of events in May that featured BookThug authors. We would like to share a little more detail of these past events. Monday May 26, 2014 “The Coming Envelope #9” had its at The Common on College Street with readings by contributors Kilby Smith-McGregor, Jonathan Pappo and S.D. Chrostowska. Fiction Editor Malcolm
- [The Fun Questionnaire: Erín Moure's Process](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-fun-questionnaire-erin-moures-process/) - After reading Secession / Insecession, I was brimming with questions. Erín Moure graciously fielded my questions and provided some compelling answers! Read part 2 of our exchange here: Kristen: Name one other BookThug book you know (not yours). Have you read it? What do you think? Erin: White Porcupine by Phil Hall. In a rainstorm
- [Buy! Sell! Stay! - Toronto Indie Arts Market, Small Press and Literary Festival](https://bookhugpress.ca/buy-sell-stay-toronto-indie-arts-market-small-press-and-literary-festival/) - June 6, 2014 On Sunday, May 25, 2014 I had the incredible opportunity of hosting the BookThug table at the Toronto Indie Arts Market, Small Press and Literary Festival. The Toronto Indie Arts Market is curated by Sheryl Kirby and Greg Clow. Together, they understood the need for independent artists to find a place to
- [The Mysterious Figure Who Leaves Books All Over the City- --  My thoughts on Air Carnation by Guadalupe Muro  and Other Things](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-mysterious-figure-who-leaves-books-all-over-the-city-my-thoughts-on-air-carnation-by-guadalupe-muro-and-other-things/) - June 9, 2014 One of the best parts about being an intern at BookThug is getting a chance to talk about the books that I love. If you’re a regular BookThug reader, then you’ve probably had one of those aha! moments where a book felt like it switched on some light in you, illuminating what
- [“Tension of the Border”: An Interview with Angela Carr, writer of Here in There:](https://bookhugpress.ca/tension-of-the-border-an-interview-with-angela-carr-writer-of-here-in-there/) - Kristen: At one point in Here in There, you write: “I heard supporting parts of words, shadows, and letters. I followed their indications” (24). In a way, does this describe your own impetus for writing? What do you find personally inspiring? Angela: Inspiration – what is that? An awe or fervor? A mystical voice from
- [I Only Have Eyes For You”: Live readings by Aisha Sasha John and Julie Joosten at the words(on)stages reading series](https://bookhugpress.ca/i-only-have-eyes-for-you-live-readings-by-aisha-sasha-john-and-julie-joosten-at-the-wordsonstages-reading-series/) - June 24, 2014 Rain didn’t deter the audience and participants from coming out to the words(on)stages reading series, hosted by founders Nicole Brewer*** and Will Kemp of words(on)pages. Held on Wednesday, June 18 at The Central, the venue offered outdoor seating on the second-floor deck, where the audience looked inside into the performance space. Drinks
- [A book whose table of contents is a poem-Esteban Buch on Air Carnation by Guadalupe Muro](https://bookhugpress.ca/a-book-whose-table-of-contents-is-a-poem-esteban-buch-on-air-carnation-by-guadalupe-muro/) - June 25, 2014 A book whose table of contents is a poem. A book that is a love letter to whom it may concern. A book whose epigraph quotes from a Wikipedia article on vegetal epiphyte. A book in two halves revolving around an intermezzo called Songs for Runaway Girls. Yes, and a book with
- [As many entrances and exits as are possible”: An Interview with Stephen Cain, editor of bp:beginnings by bpNichol](https://bookhugpress.ca/as-many-entrances-and-exits-as-are-possible-an-interview-with-stephen-cain-editor-of-bpbeginnings-by-bpnichol/) - June 27, 2014 Kristen: Can you describe your editorial process for the selection of these works by bpNichol? Stephen: As most of the works in the collection only exist in a single state, there wasn’t a lot of editorial comparisons between drafts and publications that I had to work through. Much of the labour was
- [The Romances of Lorca, Odes Like Neruda: The Inspiration and Recording Process Behind Guadalupe Muro’s, Songs For Runaway Girls.](https://bookhugpress.ca/the-way-of-neruda-odes-like-lorca-the-inspiration-and-recording-process-behind-guadalupe-muros-songs-for-runaway-girls/) - July 4, 2014 After reading Air Carnation, we were curious to ask Guadalupe Muro about the soundtrack she has been putting together. She agreed to do an interview with us, and to share some insights on the inspiration behind it, the writing and recording experience, and what was next for the project. We just listened
- [An Interview with Guadalupe Muro, the author of Air Carnation](https://bookhugpress.ca/an-interview-with-guadalupe-muro-the-author-of-air-carnation/) - July 28, 2014 The moment I finished Air Carnation, I felt I had to email Argentine author Guadalupe Muro questions regarding her book, since I had scribbled enough notes and comments in the margins. Muro was gracious enough to respond, even as she was in the process of traveling to Mexico. Along with her responses,
- [Jamaica Farewell and the Divided World: Guadalupe Muro’s Interview Questionnaire –10 Questions with the Author of Air Carnation](https://bookhugpress.ca/jamaica-farewell-and-the-divided-world-guadalupe-muros-interview-questionnaire-10-questions-with-the-author-of-air-carnation/) - August 1, 2014 As I mentioned in a prior blog post, I will be adding Air Carnation to my bedside books collection. But attached is a fun questionnaire filled out by Muro, in addition to pictures of her writing spaces in both Chile, as well as in Montreal. Did you know her favourite place to
- [Engaging Theseus by Wayne Clifford and bpNichol: Reader’s Questions](https://bookhugpress.ca/engaging-theseus-by-wayne-clifford-and-bpnichol-readers-questions/) - August 19, 2014 Reading Theseus is an intimate experience; the reader witnesses bpNichol and Wayne Clifford actively troubling the processes of myth making and word smithing. Nichol has declared his intention “of finding as many exits as possible from the self . . . in order to form as many entrances as possible for the
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- [Emmalea Russo reading from Wave Archive at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/emmalea-russo-reading-from-wave-archive-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Is it possible to archive the invisible symptoms of an illness? Is the archive emotional? Emmalea Russo’s Wave Archive moves between essay and poetry while also pondering the mind-body connection and the unreliability of thought patterns and histories. Here, Russo invokes her own experiences with seizures, photographs and art-making, archival and indexical processes, brain waves,
- [Jess Taylor reading from Just Pervs at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/jess-taylor-reading-from-just-pervs-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister’s horse farm. Four friends—fellow pervs—grow up and drift apart, pining for each other in silence until one of them is murdered. In Jess Taylor’s sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female
- [Ken Hunt reading from The Odyssey at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/ken-hunt-reading-from-the-odyssey-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - In July 1969, humans embarked on an epic journey to land on the moon. Now, fifty years later, Ken Hunt utilizes NASA’s Apollo 11 voice transcription document, a chronicle of the first six days of that mission, to create The Odyssey, an erasure poem of star charts carved from the technical jargon and offhand remarks
- [Erin Brubacher reading from 7th Cousins: An Automythography at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/erin-brubacher-reading-from-7th-cousins-an-automythography-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to work and be together. This was certainly part of it. In July 2015, Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker traced the migration route of their Mennonite ancestors by walking 700 kilometres from Pennsylvania to Ontario. Along the way they were hosted by a series of
- [Moez Surani reading from Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/moez-surani-reading-from-are-the-rivers-in-your-poems-real-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality, and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intimacy, to defy prescribed ways
- [Rune Christiansen reading from Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/rune-christiansen-reading-from-fanny-and-the-mystery-in-the-grieving-forest-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Shortlisted for the 2017 Brage Prize Fanny, a 17-year-old high school senior, has lost both her parents in a car accident. Granted permission to live independently in the family home located on the outskirts of a small Norwegian town, she passes the days performing her unchanging routine: going to school, maintaining the house, chopping and
- [Alessandra Naccarato reading from Re-Origin of Species at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/alessandra-naccarato-reading-from-re-origin-of-species-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Winner of the 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Winner of the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.
- [Aimee Wall reading from Drama Queens at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/aimee-wall-reading-from-drama-queens-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - At the book fair in Rimouski, a woman picked up my first book to read the back cover. She put it back down, avoiding my eyes. It’s heavy, cancer and death and all that. I wish books were more interactive. Like video game controllers. They could vibrate at the end of each chapter. But that’s
- [Tanis MacDonald reading from Mobile at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/tanis-macdonald-reading-from-mobile-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Mobile is an uncivil feminist reboot of Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Other Poems; an urban lament about female citizenship and settler culpability; an homage to working and walking women in a love/hate relationship with Toronto, its rivers and creeks, its sidewalks and parks, its history, misogyny and violence. How do we, in Lee’s words,
- [Robin Richardson reading from Try Not to Get Too Attached at the 2019 Book*hug Fall Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-fall-launch-videos/robin-richardson-reading-from-try-not-to-get-too-attached-at-the-2019-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson’s intuitive works—inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts—are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and
- [2019 Spring Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/) - Click here to watch Click here to watch Click here to watch Click here to watch Click here to watch Click here to watch Click here to watch
- [JC Sutcliffe reading from Worst Case, We Get Married at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/jc-sutcliffe-reading-from-worst-case-we-get-married-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - Aicha lives with her mother in Montreal’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She’s only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one
- [Lee Maracle reading from Hope Matters at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/lee-maracle-reading-from-hope-matters-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. The wide-ranging poems in Hope Matters focus on the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonial beginnings to
- [Shannon Webb-Campbell reading from I Am a Body of Land at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/shannon-webb-campbell-reading-from-i-am-a-body-of-land-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - Edited, and with an Introduction, by Lee Maracle. If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took
- [Amy Fung reading from Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/amy-fung-reading-from-before-i-was-a-critic-i-was-a-human-being-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn’t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment, I felt like a real Canadian. Before I Was a
- [Derek Mascarenhas reading from Coconut Dreams at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/derek-mascarenhas-reading-from-coconut-dreams-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - Coconut Dreams explores the lives of the Pinto family through seventeen linked short stories. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India in the 1950s, the collection weaves through various timelines and perspectives to focus on two children, Aiden and Ally Pinto. These siblings tackle their adventures in a predominantly white suburb with innocence,
- [Hasan Namir reading from War/Torn at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/hasan-namir-reading-from-war-torn-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - Lambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir’s debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the
- [Adrienne Gruber reading from Q&A at the Book*hug 2019 Spring Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2019-spring-launch-videos/adrienne-gruber-reading-from-qa-at-the-bookhug-2019-spring-launch/) - Adrienne Gruber’s third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - The Whole Party](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-the-whole-party/) - Listen to the entire party celebrating our 10th Anniversary, featuring entertainment, music, poetry, and more from Shannon Bramer, Chris Cawthray, Kemeny Babineau, Camille Martin, Adam Seelig, Paul Dutton, Roger Greenwald, Lise Downe, Michael Boughn, Gary Barwin, David Lee, Marianne Apostolides, Shannon Maguire, Julie Joosten, and Margaret Christakos. /audio/10th-Anniversary/10th-Anniversary-Party-Audio-All.mp3
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Shannon Maguire](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-shannon-maguire/) - Shannon Maguire, author of fur(l) parachute, gets the crowd to improvise a birthday song for press and reads from her debut work. /audio/10th-Anniversary/shannon_maguire.mp3 fur(l) parachute by Shannon Maguire
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Shannon Bramer and Chris Cawthray](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-shannon-bramer-and-chris-cawthray/) - Shannon Bramer and Chris Cawthray kicked off the evening with a magical performance of music, puppetry, and poetry. /audio/10th-Anniversary/shannon_b_chris.mp3
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Roger Greenwald](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-roger-greenwald/) - Roger reads from his translations of Paal-Helge Haugen's Meditations on Georges de La Tour and Niels Frank's Picture World. /audio/10th-Anniversary/roger_greenwald.mp3 Meditations on Georges de La Tour by Paal-Helge Haugen, translated by Roger Greenwald Picture World by Niels Frank, translated by Roger Greenwald
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Paul Dutton](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-paul-dutton/) - Paul Dutton gives a memorable performance. /audio/10th-Anniversary/paul_dutton.mp3
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Michael Boughn](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-michael-boughn/) - Michael Boughn reads from several titles, including 22 Skidoo, Cosmographia, and Great Canadian Poems for the Aged. /audio/10th-Anniversary/michael_boughn.mp3 Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol 1. Illus. Ed. by Michael Boughn Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-marianne-apostolides/) - Marianne Apostolides reads from her novel, Swim. /audio/10th-Anniversary/marianne_apostalides.mp3 Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life by Marianne Apostolides Swim by Marianne Apostolides
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Margaret Christakos](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-margaret-christakos/) - Margaret Christakos closes out our 10th Anniversary Party with a reading from Retreat Diary. /audio/10th-Anniversary/margaret_christakos.mp3
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Lise Downe](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-lise-downe/) - Lise Downe reads from her new book, This Way. /audio/10th-Anniversary/lisa_downe.mp3 This Way by Lise Downe
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Kemeny Babineau](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-kemeny-babineau/) - Kemeny, author of After the 6ix O’Clock News, reads several pieces, including a poem inspired by Rob Ford. /audio/10th-Anniversary/kemeny_babineau.mp3 After the 6ix O’Clock News by Kemeny Babineau
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-julie-joosten/) - Julie Joosten reads from her debut book, Light Light. /audio/10th-Anniversary/julie_joosten.mp3 Light Light by Julie Joosten
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Gary Barwin and David Lee](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-gary-barwin-and-david-lee/) - Gary Barwin and David Lee perform (Saxophone and Bass) and read from The Obvious Flap (co-authored by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts.) /audio/10th-Anniversary/barwin_lee.mp3 The Odyssey by Ken Hunt Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real by Moez Surani Re-Origin of Species by Alessandra Naccarato Just Pervs by Jess Taylor The Nothing That Is: Essays
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Camille Martin](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-camille-martin/) - Camille Martin, author of Codes of Public Sleep, reads from her work. /audio/10th-Anniversary/camille_martin.mp3 Codes of Public Sleep by Camille Martin
- [10th Anniversary Party Audio - Adam Seelig](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio/bookthug-10th-anniversary-party-audio-adam-seelig/) - Adam Seelig reads from two plays, including Talking Masks and Parts to Whole. /audio/10th-Anniversary/adam_seelig.mp3 Parts to Whole: A Play by Adam Seelig Talking Masks by Adam Seelig
- [Margaret Christakos audio reading from Her Paraphernalia at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-2016-spring-launch-audio/margaret-christakos-audio-reading-from-her-paraphernalia-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Quill and Quire Spring 2016 Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Non-Fiction Selection How does a contemporary woman write a life's umbilical attachments to the lives around her, lives formed in and by other histories and times, relations living and dying and dead? How does she see what remains her own, despite midlife’s
- [2010 Fall Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/) - Michael Boughn Michael Boughn reading from Cosmographia. Part 1 Click here to watch Michael Boughn Michael Boughn reading from Cosmographia. Part 2. Click here to watch Stephen Cain Stephen Cain reading from STANZAS. Click here to watch Victor Coleman Victor Coleman reading from The Occasional Troubadour. Part 1. Click here to watch Victor Coleman Victor
- [The Book*hug Video Interview with André Alexis, author of A](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-andre-alexis-author-of-a/) - A is a work of fiction in which André Alexis presents the compelling narrative of Alexander Baddeley, a toronto book reviewer obsessed with the work of the elusive and mythical poet Avery Andrews. Baddeley is in awe with Andrews's ability as a poet - more than anything he wants to understand the inspiration behind his
- [The Book*hug Video Interview with Marianne Apostolides, author of Sophrosyne](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-marianne-apostolides-author-of-sophrosyne/) - In this provocative new novel about desire and restraint in a digital age by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, 21-year-old Alex is consumed by the elusive problem of sophrosyne for reasons he cannot share with others. While Alex's philosophy professor believes studying it will help shed light on the malaise of our era, Alex hopes it
- [New Essential Fiction from Book*hug](https://bookhugpress.ca/new-essential-fiction-from-bookthug/) - The Greats by Sylvain Prudhomme, Translated by Jessica Moore $20 Sylvain Prudhomme’s The Greats, translated by award-winning wordsmith Jessica Moore, is a novel of mourning, love, and the thirst for justice that tells the story of a population who knew hope and independence but now live under the oppressive rule of an army dictatorship.
- [Video Interview with Mark Laliberte, author of BRICKBRICKBRICK](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-mark-laliberte-author-of-brickbrickbrick/) - With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of "poetics". Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around - but never quite steps into - the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit. BRICKBRICKBRICK by Mark Laliberte
- [Mark Laliberte reading from BRICKBRICKBRICK at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/mark-laliberte-reading-from-brickbrickbrick-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch/) - BRICKBRICKBRICK is background reading brought to the forefront. With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of "poetics". Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around - but never quite steps into - the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit. BRICKBRICKBRICK by Mark Laliberte
- [Jay MillAr reading from Andrew Hughes book Now Lays The Sunshine By at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/jay-millar-reading-from-andrew-hughes-book-now-lays-the-sunshine-by-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch/) - In Now Lays the Sunshine By, Andrew Hughes detunes the lyres, cranks the gain on the harmonium & pitches the amps to wail. Consider something Lyn Hyjinian once said: "The starry angular varieties of recurrent word and changed idea in constellation gather..." and in these dented lyrics you will witness the celebration of an electric
- [Meredith Quartermain reading from Recipes from the Red Planet at the Fall 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/meredith-quartermain-reading-from-recipes-from-the-red-planet-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Suppose fiction is a mansion of mirrors where narrative, setting and plot are characters, and suppose this castle is haunted by Martians constantly rearranging, reversing and transElating its furniture of myths, fables and nursery rhymes.
- [Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts reading from The Obvious Flap at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/gary-barwin-and-gregory-betts-reading-from-the-obvious-flap-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - The Obvious Flap is a musical, poetic flux of recurring and recursive images that explore the luminous fringes of language. The text weaves a variety of thematic threads of humour, literary allusions, and narrative into a fabric that spreads into an open, proprioceptive linguistic environment. The Obvious Flap by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts
- [Roger Greenwald reading from Picture World at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/roger-greenwald-reading-from-picture-world-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Picture World is the first complete book by the Danish poet Niels Frank to be published in English. By turns funny and serious, ironic and sincere, droll and sly, conversational and playfully inventive, it draws the reader into a set of contemplations that grows more and more complex as its elements recur, reinforcing and undercutting
- [Lise Downe reading from This Way at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/lise-downe-reading-from-this-way-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - The poems in This Way are an alternative take on the genre of detective fiction. In them we uncover an assortment of clues and the task of sorting out the essential from the superfluous; the real from the imagined; the inside from the out. As in our daily lives, in spite of all the 'evidence',
- [Brian Fawcett reading from George Bowering's book The Diamond Alphabet at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/brian-fawcett-reading-from-george-bowerings-book-the-diamond-alphabet-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - The Diamond Alphabet is made up of 130 between-innings takes, five for each letter. You probably expected "Mays," but were you ready for "Uzbekistan"? Tall tales, memories, facts and opinions are interwoven in this delightful collection of short takes on the gentleman's game that demonstrates the full potential of the relationship between baseball and literature.
- [Jesse Huisken reading from Jorgen Leth's Trivial Everyday Things at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/jesse-huisken-reading-from-jorgen-leths-trivial-everyday-things-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Trivial Everyday Things is a collection of Leth's poems spanning some forty years, selected and translated with exquisite restraint by Martin Aitken. It is, astonishingly, the first book-length collection of Leth's poetry to appear in English. Trivial Everyday Things: Selected Poems by Jorgen Leth, translated by Martin Aitken
- [Nick Power reading from Lance La Rocque's Vermin at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/nick-power-reading-from-lance-la-rocques-vermin-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Vermin is a collection of diverse poems, matter-of-fact daydreams of body parts, money, family life, murder, children, and animals. Whimsical, unsettling, or creepy, depending on the reader's mood, the poems are united by an urge to crawl out from the suffocating spells of late capitalism, and take a look around. Vermin by Lance La Rocque
- [Video Interview with Morten Sondergaard, author of Wordpharmacy](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-morten-sondergaard-author-of-wordpharmacy/) - Wordpharmacy is a concrete poetical work that playfully equates the structure of language with pharmaceutical products. It consists of ten medicine boxes, each representing one of the ten word-groups. Each box contains a leaflet that functions as an instructional poem, guiding the reader's ingestion of the given word group. Out of stock Wordpharmacy by Morten
- [Video Interview with Morten Sondergaard, author of A Step in the Right Direction](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-morten-sondergaard-author-of-a-step-in-the-right-direction/) - In A Step in the Right Direction, Søndergaard continues a line of thought he first developed in Bees Die Sleeping and continued in Vinci, Later (which was published in English in 2005). This new collection is "about" walking. It contains four major cohesive songs or cantos, each of which explores the act of walking from
- [Morten Sondergaard reading from Wordpharmacy and A Step in the Right Direction at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/morten-sondergaard-reading-from-wordpharmacy-and-a-step-in-the-right-direction-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - A Step in the Right Direction is a series of meditations on walking. Divided into four major songs, or cantos, each one explores the act of walking from a different point of view: As a social activity; as an act of love; as a condition for thought; and as an inspiration for art. In this
- [bill bissett reading from Rush: what fuckan theory at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/bill-bissett-reading-from-rush-what-fuckan-theory-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - The publication of bill bissett's Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv language in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years - and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts - Rush
- [Roger Greenwald reading from Meditations on Georges de La Tour - Poetry by Paal-Helge Haugen at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/roger-greenwald-reading-from-meditations-on-georges-de-la-tour-poetry-by-paal-helge-haugen-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Paal-Helge Haugen's Meditasjonar over Georges de La Tour (Meditations on Georges de La Tour) was published in Norwegian in 1990, won the Norwegian Critics' Prize, and was a finalist for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. The book consists of a series of thirty-four poems that emerge from Haugen's long engagement with the work of the
- [Adam Seelig with a musical selection from from Ubu Mayor at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/adam-seelig-with-a-musical-selection-from-from-ubu-mayor-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - From playwright Adam Seelig, founder and director of One Little Goat Theatre Company in Toronto, comes a new play of timely absurdity: Ubu Mayor: A Harmful Bit of Fun. This anti-musical is the result of intoxicatingly driving Alfred Jarry’s 1896 merde-filled masterpiece Ubu Roi head-first into the internationally renowned antics, absurdities and obscenities of Toronto’s
- [Emily Keeler reading from Bunny and Shark by Alisha Piercy at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/emily-keeler-reading-from-bunny-and-shark-by-alisha-piercy-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Literally lost at sea, Bunny is fueled by the miracle of having been saved from sharks by a band of dolphins. And her continued survival depends on her ability to become a spiritual extension of the landscape: she is the mood of the ocean at night as she swims blindly in it, and the protective
- [Gregoire Pam Dick reading from Metaphysical Licks at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/gregoire-pam-dick-reading-from-metaphysical-licks-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009)]. With a mix of high and low, tragic and
- [Video Interview with R. Kolewe, author of Afterletters](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-r-kolewe-author-of-afterletters/) - In Afterletters, Kolewe weaves together fragments of letters and other works of these two poets, to give us a stunning sequence of poems that explore the traces of loss and love, in language that breaks, recombines and scintillates, "star-crossed, star-covered, star-thrown." Afterletters by R. Kolewe
- [R. Kolewe reading from Afterletters at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/r-kolewe-reading-from-afterletters-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In 1948, in the exhausted aftermath of WWII, the poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann met in Vienna. They began a difficult and intense but intermittent relationship which lasted until the early 1960s, broken off only when Bachmann could no longer deal with Celan's increasing mental instability. And yet, despite the break, the relationship continued
- [Wanda Praamsma reading from a thin line between at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/wanda-praamsma-reading-from-a-thin-line-between-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In what can be described as a verse-novel for its lyricism and rhythmic structure, Wanda Praamsma crafts a story that transcends geographic boundaries and time periods, by weaving together lives from her own family's past, including her poet-grandfather and sculptor-uncle. Subtle in its life lessons, a thin line between works at 'peeling away the I's'
- [Aaron Giovannone reading from The Nonnets at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/aaron-giovannone-reading-from-the-nonnets-at-the-2018-bookhug-spring-launch/) - Compulsively confessional and cracking wise, The Nonnets is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy. Aaron Giovannone’s latest collection is a book-length sequence of “nonnets”—nine-line poems that Giovannone handles with ruthless dexterity. Capturing transformations from first dates to goodbye texts, from mama’s boy to unrepentant shoplifter, from post-industrial downtown to eleventh-century Italian monastery, these
- [Chelene Knight reading from Dear Current Occupant at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/chelene-knight-reading-from-dear-current-occupant-at-the-2018-bookhug-spring-launch/) - Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different
- [JC Sutcliffe reading from Mama’s Boy by David Goudreault at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/jc-sutcliffe-reading-from-mamas-boy-by-david-goudreault-at-the-2018-bookhug-spring-launch/) - Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix littéraire Archambault My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn’t take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases. Written with gritty humour in the
- [JC Sutcliffe reading from Document 1 by François Blais at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/jc-sutcliffe-reading-from-document-1-by-francois-blais-at-the-2018-bookhug-spring-launch/) - Tess and Jude live in small-town Quebec and spend their time travelling all across North America—using Google maps—which provides them the luxury of adventure while remaining in the comfort of their own home. But Tess and Jude are dreamers, and their online adventures eventually give rise to a desire to actually travel somewhere. They settle
- [Catherine Fatima reading from Sludge Utopia at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/catherine-fatima-reading-from-sludge-utopia-at-the-2018-bookhug-spring-launch/) - In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through
- [2018 Spring Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/) - Catherine Fatima Catherine Fatima reading from Sludge Utopia at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch. Click here to watch JC Sutcliffe JC Sutcliffe reading from her translation of Mama’s Boy by David Goudreault at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch. Click here to watch Chelene Knight Chelene Knight reading from Dear Current Occupant at the Book*hug Spring 2018
- [Gwen Benaway reading from Holy Wild at theBook*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/gwen-benaway-reading-from-holy-wild-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work
- [Mark Truscott reading from Nature at the Fall 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/mark-truscott-reading-from-nature-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - To anchor its compositional investigations into its own material, Mark Truscott's Nature considers the difficulties of this overdetermined concept and asks - without recourse to nostalgia, sanctimony, or moralism - what kind of space it might meaningfully create or occupy. Nature by Mark Truscott
- [Mark Truscott reading from Branches at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/mark-truscott-reading-from-branches-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and much larger. The sound of the vacuum cleaner in the next room is noise
- [Alex Leslie reading from We All Need to Eat at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/alex-leslie-reading-from-we-all-need-to-eat-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, each story chronicles a sea change in Soma’s life. Lyrical, gritty, and atmospheric, Soma’s stories refuse to shy away from the contradictions inherent to
- [Hana Shafi reading from It Begins With The Body at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/hana-shafi-reading-from-it-begins-with-the-body-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi’s poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity, and faith. Accompanied by Shafi’s candid illustrations that share the same delightful mixture of grotesque and humour found in
- [Oana Avasilichioaei reading from The Faerie Devouring by Catherine Lalonde at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/oana-avasilichioaei-reading-from-the-faerie-devouring-by-catherine-lalonde-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards: La dévoration des fées by Catherine Lalonde (French Language Category) Winner of the 2018 Prix Alain-Grandbois de l'Academie des lettres due Quebec Finalist for the 2018 Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal A modern-day fable and feminist bildungsroman, The Faerie Devouring tells the story of the sprite, her absent mother
- [Kim Trainor reading from Ledi at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/kim-trainor-reading-from-ledi-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Ledi, the second book by Vancouver poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman’s carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods were also discovered—rosehips and wild garlic, translucent vessels carved from horn,
- [Ken Hunt reading from The Lost Cosmonauts at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/ken-hunt-reading-from-the-lost-cosmonauts-at-the-2018-bookhug-fall-launch/) - Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts by Ken Hunt is an elegy to humanity’s fledgling efforts to explore outer space, and to those
- [2018 Fall Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-fall-launch-videos/) - Ken Hunt Ken Hunt reading from The Lost Cosmonauts at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch. Click here to watch Kim Trainor Kim Trainor reading from Ledi at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch. Click here to watch Oana Avasilichioaei Oana Avasilichioaei reading from The Faerie Devouring by Catherine Lalonde at the Book*hug Fall 2018 Launch. Click
- [Steven Zultanski reading from Honestly at the Book*hug Spring 2018 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2018-spring-launch-videos/steven-zultanski-reading-from-honestly-at-the-2018-bookhug-spring-launch/) - The third book in a trilogy that explores the limits of individual expression, Honestly is an intimate, quiet, and unresolved little book about talking and listening. It begins with research into a forgotten relative who was kicked out of the author’s family after he was jailed for conscientious objection to WWII, and who then moved
- [Video Interview with Steven Zultanski, author of Agony](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-steven-zultanski-author-of-agony/) - Agony is the first in a trilogy of long confessional poems. It uses semi-rigorous mathematical and logical constraints to view the author's life and body, telescopically, as little bits of time and space. Everything written here is as true as possible - that is to say, pretty true. The poem writes autobiography as a refutation
- [Steven Zultanski reading from Cop Kisser at the Fall 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/steven-zultanski-reading-from-cop-kisser-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Cop Kisser is a book of 18 poems in a variety of modes. Some are quasiconceptual, some repetitively relational, and some are hyperactive lyric collage. These modes have been ordered intuitively into what appears as a totalizing structure. Thus, it's a big book, and deceptively so. Really there are only about two ideas in here.
- [Steven Zultanski reading from Agony at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/steven-zultanski-reading-from-agony-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Agony is the first in a trilogy of long confessional poems. It uses semi-rigorous mathematical and logical constraints to view the author's life and body, telescopically, as little bits of time and space. Everything written here is as true as possible - that is to say, pretty true. The poem writes autobiography as a refutation
- [Pearl Pirie reading from the pet radish, shrunken at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/pearl-pirie-reading-from-the-pet-radish-shrunken-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection In this post-lyrical era, poems can be stories, or they can just as easily be exuberant laughter set to words, an experiment in language, or an incidental collation of plays on a Scrabble board. the pet radish, shrunken, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable
- [Steven Ross Smith reading from Emanations: fluttertongue 6 at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/steven-ross-smith-reading-from-emanations-fluttertongue-6-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection 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 (a long poem that encompasses a life)—Emanations is the sixth chapter of that project. Smith bends, confuses, and disintegrates the fundamental
- [François Turcot reading from My Dinosaur at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/francois-turcot-reading-from-my-dinosaur-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection With luminous and lucid writing, Turcot excavates the fossil gaze of his father in an elated elegy composed of poems both tensed and open, minimalist and talkative, serious and droll, alternating the voice and writings of the father with the fictions and assemblies of the son-reminding us
- [Devon Code reading from Involuntary Bliss at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/devon-code-reading-from-involuntary-bliss-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Over one hazy weekend in late August, an unnamed narrator visits his troubled friend James following a gap of many months. The two young men are set adrift in the city by way of James’s memories, which flow out of him as lush set pieces—an affair, a stint volunteering at a children’s hospital, a striptease
- [Malcolm Sutton introducing The Coming Envelope Issue 7 with a reading from Kyle Buckley at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/malcolm-sutton-introducing-the-coming-envelope-issue-7-with-a-reading-from-kyle-buckley-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - The Coming Envelope, Issue #7 features new work by 5 writers: Valerie Witte, whose epistolary gothic narrative startles us with a language of ardour that runs alongside being; Masha Tupitsyn, whose "Reel Men" nouveau-romanly disorients us while compelling us to evaluate just what kind of relationship a contemporary relationship is; Moez Surani, whose endpaper poems
- [Moez Surani reading from Operación Opération Operation at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/moez-surani-reading-from-operacion-operation-operation-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - From poet-provocateur Moez Surani comes ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация—a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted by UN Member Nations since the organization’s inception in 1945. ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация
- [Jennifer LoveGrove reading from Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes at the Spring 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-spring-launch-videos/jennifer-lovegrove-reading-from-beautiful-children-with-pet-foxes-at-the-2017-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Beautiful Children With Pet Foxes by Giller Prize-longlisted author Jennifer LoveGrove bears witness to moments of extreme crisis that will take you on an odyssey through a terrain of startling dreamscapes. These are poems haunted by the ghosts of alienation, trauma, delusion, and fear that the past decade has instilled in us. Here you will
- [Erin Robinsong reading from Rag Cosmology at the Spring 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-spring-launch-videos/erin-robinsong-reading-from-rag-cosmology-at-the-2017-bookthug-spring-launch/) - The ecological is personal; the personal is ecological. Rag Cosmology is a pulsating meditation on this most intimate relationship. These poems inject pleasure deep into the tissues of our language and state, countering fatalist narratives with the intimacy of entanglement and engagement. Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinsong
- [Divya Victor reading from Kith at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/divya-victor-reading-from-kith-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what ‘kith’ might mean outside of the national boundaries of those people belonging to the Indian and Southeast Asian diasporas. Through an engagement with the effects of globalization on identity formation, cultural and linguistic exchange,
- [Aaron Tucker reading from Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/aaron-tucker-reading-from-irresponsible-mediums-the-chess-games-of-marcel-duchamp-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony. Inspired by this performance, Irresponsible Mediums—poet and academic Aaron Tucker’s second full-length collection of poems—translates
- [Emily Anglin reading from The Third Person at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/emily-anglin-reading-from-the-third-person-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In The Third Person, a collection of uncanny short stories by Emily Anglin, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality: employees dissolve from job titles, neighbours overstep comfortable boundaries, voices distanced by
- [Lee Maracle reading from Conversations with Canadian at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/lee-maracle-reading-from-conversations-with-canadian-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but
- [William Ellis reading from The Videofag Book at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/william-ellis-reading-from-the-videofag-book-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for counterculture in the city, playing host to a litany of performances, screenings, parties, exhibitions, and all manner
- [Shannon Bramer reading from Precious Energy at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/shannon-bramer-reading-from-precious-energy-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Precious Energy, the fourth collection of poetry from Hamilton-born poet and playwright Shannon Bramer, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that remains within us all even as we grow up and into whatever person we keep trying to become. Featuring
- [Jessica Moore reading from The Greats at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/jessica-moore-reading-from-the-greats-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Sylvain Prudhomme’s The Greats, translated by award-winning wordsmith Jessica Moore, is a novel of mourning, love, and the thirst for justice that tells the story of a population who knew hope and independence but now live under the oppressive rule of an army dictatorship. The Greats by Sylvain Prudhomme, Translated by Jessica Moore
- [2012 Fall Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/) - Michael Boughn Michael Boughn reading from Great Canadian Poems for the Aged. Click here to watch Victor Coleman Victor Coleman reading from iVH: An Alphamath Serial. Click here to watch Malcolm Sutton Malcolm Sutton introducing the new issue of The Coming Envelope. Click here to watch bill bissett bill bissett reading from Rush : What
- [Author Interview with Michael Boughn, author of City: Book One: Singular Assumptions](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-michael-boughn-author-of-city-book-one-singular-assumptions/) - Taking Charles Olson's "Poem 143—the festival aspect" as its provocation and partner in conversation, Michael Boughn's City sets out on a voyage to explore the Three Towns central to Olson's poem and the Vedic myth that it responds to. Combining observations and commentary on current affairs with references to and considerations of traditional texts by
- [Author Interview with Jacob Wren, author of Polyamorous Love Song](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-jacob-wren-author-of-polyamorous-love-song/) - From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
- [Author Interview with Kate Hargreaves, author of Leak](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-kate-hargreaves-author-of-leak/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2014 Fall Poetry Selection Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out
- [Author Interview with Jess Taylor, author of Pauls](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-jess-taylor-author-of-pauls/) - 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,
- [Video Interview with Michael Woods, author of World News Story](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-michael-woods-author-of-world-news-story/) - The writing in this collection experiments with the stories of conflicts, border disputes, elections, revolutions and other matters of world politics and affairs as told by contemporary media. By retelling a year's worth of events, the book contains a familiar narrative, and if you are old enough to read it, you will have lived through
- [Video Interview with Richard Krueger, author of The Monotony of Fatal Accidents](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-richard-krueger-author-of-the-monotony-of-fatal-accidents/) - Though at a passing glance it appears to deal primarily with geography and animals, The Monotony of Fatal Accidents in fact deals with neither; rather, it is an internal journey through the body of the poet. This body is a scene of violence, and this violence is mapped out across the hinterland of the poet's
- [Video Interview with Aisha Sasha John, author of The Shining Material](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-aisha-sasha-john-author-of-the-shining-material/) - In The Shining Material, Aisha Sasha John is a hostess; welcome to her house. Inside there is a party, a prayer, a painting that puts its fingers in your mouth - let it: in The Shining Material witness Aisha Sasha John braid self-portraiture, ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to create a collection of
- [2014 Spring Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-spring-launch-videos/) - Jacob Wren Jacob Wren reading from Polyamorous Love Song. Click here to watch Aisha Sasha John Aisha Sasha John reading from THOU. Click here to watch bpNichol Panel bpNichol panel including Stephen Cain (editor of bp:beginnings), Lola Tostevin, Brian Dedora. Moderated by Gregory Betts. Click here to watch Guadalupe Muro Guadalupe Muro, author of Air
- [Video Interview with Erin Moure, author of Pillage Laud](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-erin-moure-author-of-pillage-laud/) - First published in 1999 in an edition of 300 perfectbound copies and 26 spiralbound copies lettered A-Z and signed, Pillage Laud is a lost cult item that now returns to print. As the 1999 edition announced, Pillage Laud selects from pages of computer-generated sentences to produce lesbian sex poems (cauterizations, vocabularies, cantigas, topiary and prose)
- [Erin Moure reading from Pillage Laud at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/erin-moure-reading-from-pillage-laud-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - First published in 1999 in an edition of 300 perfectbound copies and 26 spiralbound copies lettered A-Z and signed, Pillage Laud is a lost cult item that now returns to print. As the 1999 edition announced, Pillage Laud selects from pages of computer-generated sentences to produce lesbian sex poems (cauterizations, vocabularies, cantigas, topiary and prose)
- [Video Interview with Bryan Sentes, author of March End Prill](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-bryan-sentes-author-of-march-end-prill/) - March End Prill is a songline periplum that charts a way through our S.A.D. Zeitgeist to a thawing of the sources of speech and song. March End Prill by Bryan Sentes
- [Bryan Sentes reading from March End Prill at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/bryan-sentes-reading-from-march-end-prill-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - March End Prill is a songline periplum that charts a way through our S.A.D. Zeitgeist to a thawing of the sources of speech and song. March End Prill by Bryan Sentes
- [Tyler Hayden reading from Ohmhole at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/tyler-hayden-reading-from-ohmhole-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Imagine a not-so-distant future in which everyone is HIV positive and, sooner or later, ends up in a state-operated hospice dying of AIDS. In a broken socio-economic order, governments have been reduced to a single function: extending the lives of their citizens with anti-retroviral treatment (ART) drugs. Meanwhile, rumours have coalesced into a widespread belief
- [Video Interview with Tyler Hayden, author of Ohmhole](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-tyler-hayden-author-of-ohmhole/) - Imagine a not-so-distant future in which everyone is HIV positive and, sooner or later, ends up in a state-operated hospice dying of AIDS. In a broken socio-economic order, governments have been reduced to a single function: extending the lives of their citizens with anti-retroviral treatment (ART) drugs. Meanwhile, rumours have coalesced into a widespread belief
- [Author Interview with Nicole Markotic, author of Bent at the Spine](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-author-interview-with-nicole-markotic-author-of-bent-at-the-spine/) - Bent at the Spine offers a 'pronoun'-ced frolic where the "you" is a disconnected third party - the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karmasurplus author. Its relentless interrogation resonates at an invigorating pace: cultural difference, different bodies, diffident accents, deafening rhymes. Sometimes rapturous, often vulvy, the
- [Video Interview with Angela Szczepaniak, author of The QWERTY Institute (Annual Report)](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-angela-szczepaniak-author-of-the-qwerty-institute-annual-report/) - Ever wonder what goes on in the secret lives of letters? Surely they don't just huddle quietly under the covers waiting to be read. This collection of "visual fictions" gives you a rare opportunity to come out of the lexical bushes, drop your quarter into the slot, and watch the typographical peepshow unfold. The QWERTY
- [Author Interview with Christine McNair, author of Conflict](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-author-interview-with-christine-mcnair-author-of-conflict/) - Conflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that breaks down remembrance into abandoned historic markers, jet fuel, keening, or teeth. What you are given (this is a gift) is an insistent refusal to silence or shift. In exchange, the reader faces the impossibility of erasure and
- [Christine McNair reading from Charm at the Spring 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-spring-launch-videos/christine-by-mcnair-reading-from-charm-at-the-2017-bookthug-spring-launch/) - A charm can protect, inflict or influence. Charm, the second collection by poet Christine McNair, considers the craftwork of conception from a variety of viewpoints—from pregnancy and motherhood, to how an orchid is pollinated, to overcoming abusive relationships, to the manual artistry of carving a violin bow or marbling endpapers. Through these works, McNair’s poetic
- [Video Interview with Andrew McEwan, author of repeater](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-andrew-mcewan-author-of-repeater/) - repeater is a codebook. It is a poetic code programmed into a computer code. Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code for each letter of the alphabet as an acrostic, the poems of repeater encode an investigation of layered and digitized language into the heart of the code itself. Appendixes form supplementary studies, and deviate into
- [Andrew McEwan reading from If Pressed by at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/andrew-mcewan-reading-from-if-pressed-by-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Overlapping language of fear and speculation gain momentum in these poems, where layers of atmospheric and emotional lexicons—ranging from descriptions of the mid-2000s financial crisis and subsequent recession, to writing on melancholia from the 1600s, to weather reports and condo listings, to pharmaceutical sales pitches and literary book reviews—focus attention on the ways that anxiety
- [Video Interview with Donato Mancini, author of You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-donato-mancini-author-of-you-must-work-harder-to-write-poetry-of-excellence/) - While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What
- [Donato Mancini reading from You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/donato-mancini-reading-from-you-must-work-harder-to-write-poetry-of-excellence-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What
- [Video Interview with Stan Dragland, author of Deep Too](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-stan-dragland-author-of-deep-too/) - Employing a sort of leaping or mosaic structure and incorporating e-mails re penis-enlargement, questionable limericks, jokes, graffiti and a photo of a "penis latte," along with personal anecdotes and probes of books and films, Deep Too is a book of non-fiction stories. It is a funny and sometimes biting book about the phenomenon of male
- [Video Interview with Kim Minkus, author of Tuft](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-kim-minkus-author-of-tuft/) - With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we "observe the green elite" and "iceplants bloom in the monotony of paved paths." We tangle and climb into language and are swept into the lives of the animals that haunt the shores of our city's waterways. This is a world
- [Andre Alexis reading from A at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/andre-alexis-reading-from-a-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - A is a work of fiction in which André Alexis presents the compelling narrative of Alexander Baddeley, a Toronto book reviewer obsessed with the work of the elusive and mythical poet Avery Andrews. Baddeley is in awe of Andrews's ability as a poet - more than anything he wants to understand the inspiration behind his
- [Video Interview with Marianne Apostolides, author of Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-marianne-apostolides-author-of-voluptuous-pleasure-the-truth-about-the-writing-life/) - Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life is a collection of non-fiction whose title states that non-fiction does not exist. These stories, by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, are sensuous and smart, ambiguous but incisive in their truths. Voluptuous Pleasure will take you inside brothels and bedrooms, kitchens and consciousness; it will seduce you along
- [Marianne Apostolides reading from Sophrosyne at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/marianne-apostolides-reading-from-sophrosyne-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In this provocative new novel about desire and restraint in a digital age by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, 21-year-old Alex is consumed by the elusive problem of sophrosyne for reasons he cannot share with others. While Alex's philosophy professor believes studying it will help shed light on the malaise of our era, Alex hopes it
- [Marianne Apostolides reading from Deep Salt Water at the Spring 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-spring-launch-videos/marianne-apostolides-reading-from-deep-salt-water-at-the-2017-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Deep Salt Water is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. In detail at once sensual and sophisticated, Apostolides unfurls the emotional experience of a love affair and unwanted pregnancy, the abortion itself, and her reconnection with the man seventeen years later—a rekindling of love which stimulates
- [Kate Hargreaves reading from Leak at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/kate-hargreaves-reading-from-leak-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out of place and letters drop away. Emergency room
- [2014 Fall Launch Videos](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/) - Wanda Praamsma Wanda Praamsma reading from a thin line between. Click here to watch R. Kolewe R. Kolewe reading from Afterletters. Click here to watch Marianne Apostolides Marianne Apostolides reading from Sophrosyne. Click here to watch Gregoire Pam Dick Gregoire Pam Dick reading from Metaphysical Licks. Click here to watch Emily Keeler Emily Keeler reading
- [Author Interview with Bertrand Laverdure author of Universal Bureau of Copyrights and translator Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-bertrand-laverdure-author-of-universal-bureau-of-copyrights-and-translator-oana-avasilichioaei/) - From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights, a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part
- [Bertrand Laverdure and Oana Avasilichioaei reading Universal Bureau of Copyrights at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/bertrand-laverdure-and-oana-avasilichioaei-reading-universal-bureau-of-copyrights-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights, a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this novel, which is part poetic narrative, part
- [Bertrand Laverdure and Oana Avasilichioaei reading from Readopolis at the Spring 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-spring-launch-videos/bertrand-laverdure-and-oana-avasilichioaei-reading-from-readopolis-at-the-2017-bookthug-spring-launch/) - From award-winning writer Bertrand Laverdure comes Readopolis, a novel translated by Oana Avasilichioaei. It’s 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He’s bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts.
- [Author Interview with Liz Worth author of No Work Finished Here](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-liz-worth-author-of-no-work-finished-here/) - When Andy Warhol’s a, A Novel was first published in 1968, The New York Times Book Review declared it “pornographic.” Yet over four decades later, a, A Novel continues to be an essential documentation of Warhol’s seminal Factory scene. And though the book offers a pop art snapshot of 1960s Manhattan that only Warhol could
- [Liz Worth reading from The Truth is Told Better This Way at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/liz-worth-reading-from-the-truth-is-told-better-this-way-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its secrets one line at a time. The result is oracular and surreal, as each piece could be
- [Liz Worth reading from No Work Finished Here Rewriting Andy Warhol at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/liz-worth-reading-from-no-work-finished-here-rewriting-andy-warhol-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - When Andy Warhol's a, A Novel was first published in 1968, The New York Times Book Review declared it “pornographic.” Yet over four decades later, a, A Novel continues to be an essential documentation of Warhol's seminal Factory scene. And though the book offers a pop art snapshot of 1960s Manhattan that only Warhol could
- [Their Biography by kevin mcpherson eckhoff at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/their-biography-by-kevin-mcpherson-eckhoff-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be “about” its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language? Maybe a book not written by a hero… but by many? This was the challenge taken up by kevin mcpherson
- [Jean Marc Ah-Sen reading from Grand Menteur at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/jean-marc-ah-sen-reading-from-grand-menteur-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - 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: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of exceptional caliber whose sole responsibility is to purposefully confuse police with alibis, the
- [Author Interview with Chantal Neveu, author of Coit](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-author-interview-with-chantal-neveu-author-of-coit/) - In Coït, minimalist traces of language cling to a series of mapped channels. Every channel is a tenuous archive of choreographed gestures recorded by the poet from the edges of dance stages. Here, spaces hold words and words hold movement. A book marked by inexhaustible passages, this exquisite English language translation of Québécoise poet Chantal
- [Chantal Neveu reading from A Spectacular Influence at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/chantal-neveu-reading-from-a-spectacular-influence-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Drawing from philosophy (including Pre-Socratic materialists, Nietzsche, and Spinoza), A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu offers readers an exercise in extreme perception. With clear lines and minimalist language, A Spectacular Influence solicits movement in melancholy as a way of celebrating the intimate role that each of us plays in the human collective experience. A Spectacular
- [Author Interview with Chantal Neveu, author of A Spectacular Influence](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-chantal-neveu-author-of-a-spectacular-influence/) - Drawing from philosophy (including Pre-Socratic materialists, Nietzsche, and Spinoza), A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu offers readers an exercise in extreme perception. With clear lines and minimalist language, A Spectacular Influence solicits movement in melancholy as a way of celebrating the intimate role that each of us plays in the human collective experience. This is
- [Jess Taylor reading from Pauls at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/jess-taylor-reading-from-pauls-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection Pauls, the debut short-story collection by the exciting young writer Jess Taylor, is about people: the things that remain unseen to them; how they cope with their unforgettable pasts; the different roles they take in each other's lives; how they hurt each other; how they try to
- [Josh Massey reading from The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/josh-massey-reading-from-the-plotline-bomber-of-innisfree-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Quill and Quire 2015 Fall Fiction Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer. Inkster, whose goal is to live
- [Author Interview with Josh Massey author of The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-josh-massey-author-of-the-plotline-bomber-of-innisfree/) - Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer. Inkster, whose goal is to live peacefully with his elk, harvesting their antlers, becomes embroiled in the political violence of oil-pipeline expansion.
- [Author Interview with Brian Dedora, author of Lorcation](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-brian-dedora-author-of-lorcation/) - Lorcation progresses transformationally from prose poem to informal essay, sustained by its three vital metaphors of journey, suitcase, and crossroads. The book, presented as a bilingual English and Spanish edition, follows Dedora’s reading and re-enactment of Lorca’s life and writing, especially the Spanish author’s emergent awareness of his homosexuality, culminating, for Dedora, in a new
- [Brian Dedora reading from Lorcation at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/brian-dedora-reading-from-lorcation-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - 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 Garcia Lorca, of the basic elements in common between the Spanish writer's life and his own, and of the tragic grandeur
- [Samuel Andreyev reading from The Relativistic Empire at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/samuel-andreyev-reading-from-the-relativistic-empire-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection 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
- [Author Interview with Samuel Andreyev author of The Relativistic Empire](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-samuel-andreyev-author-of-the-relativistic-empire/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection 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
- [Alessandro Porco introducing Poems by Gerard Legro by Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/alessandro-porco-introducing-poems-by-gerard-legro-by-jerrold-levy-and-richard-negro-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - This unique and timely addition to the canon of Black Mountain College will appeal to poetry and art enthusiasts and students—especially those interested in twentieth-century American poetry and literature, the work of Black Mountain College scholars, and major art figures like Salvador Dali, Frida Khalo, Julien Levy, Ilya Bolotowsky, Herbert Bayer, and Josef Albers. Poems
- [Alessandro Porco audio introduction to Poems by Gerard Legro by Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro at the Spring 2016 Launch Party](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-2016-spring-launch-audio/alessandro-porco-audio-introduction-to-poems-by-gerard-legro-by-jerrold-levy-and-richard-negro-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - In the spring and summer of 1949, Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro—two teenage pranksters with the right mix of bad attitude and artistic ingenuity—composed, circulated, and performed a collection of poems on the campus of Black Mountain College, an experimental school located just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Now, BookThug is bringing this previously unpublished work
- [Margaret Christakos reading from Her Paraphernalia at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/margaret-christakos-reading-from-her-paraphernalia-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Quill and Quire Spring 2016 Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Non-Fiction Selection At once daring, erotic and original, Her Paraphernalia explores the beauty of the selfie, menopause, daughters, lust, solo travel, depression, the death of a parent, the writing life and women’s transgenerational vitality, among other interwoven themes. Her Paraphernalia: On Motherlines,
- [Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard and Aimee Wall reading from Sports and Pastimes at the Fall 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-fall-launch-videos/jean-philippe-baril-guerard-and-aimee-wall-reading-from-sports-and-pastimes-at-the-2017-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Inspired by Erik Satie’s work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the first novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard to appear in English. Translated by Aimee Wall, this fast-paced story follows the daily life, at once empty and overloaded, of a group of friends who spend all their energy
- [Mat Laporte reading from RATS NEST at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/mat-laporte-reading-from-rats-nest-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st century. This debut book of sci-fi stories by Mat Laporte introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a self-reproducing 3D Printed Kid made especially for this
- [Kate Sutherland reading from How to Draw a Rhinoceros at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/kate-sutherland-reading-from-how-to-draw-a-rhinoceros-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal—from the elephant–rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold
- [Erin Wunker reading from Notes from a Feminist Killjoy at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/erin-wunker-reading-from-notes-from-a-feminist-killjoy-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept “feminist killjoy”), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed’s project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. Neither totemic nor
- [Stephen Thomas reading from The Jokes at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/stephen-thomas-reading-from-the-jokes-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Like a series of moments in a social media–like ‘feed,’ this collection of very short stories riffs on the form of ‘the joke,’ but as this might be understood by the best culture-critical comedians of our time: Andy Kaufman, Stephen Wright, Jon Stewart, Richard Pryor. Much like those stand-up artists who sanctified the joke-form, these
- [Malcolm Sutton reading from Job Shadowing at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/malcolm-sutton-reading-from-job-shadowing-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection Big Other's Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016 Selection An unemployed man, losing his ability to imagine a future self, disappears into the shadow world of an ambitious millennial. His wife, an idealistic artist at the turning point of her career, falls deeper and deeper into
- [Joni Murphy reading from Double Teenage at the  Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/joni-murphy-reading-from-double-teenage-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Big Other's Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016 Selection Double Teenage tells the story of Celine and Julie, two girls coming of age in the 1990s in a desert town close to the US–Mexico border. Starting from their shared love of theater, the girls move into a wider world that shimmers with intellectual and
- [Adrienne Gruber reading from Buoyancy Control at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/adrienne-gruber-reading-from-buoyancy-control-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection Buoyancy Control is an honest, at times humorous, and revealing look inside the mind and body of a woman manoeuvring through experiences of longing, loss, and the fluidity of sexual identity, presented in a powerfully feminist and unapologetic poetic voice,
- [Adrienne Gruber audio reading from Buoyancy Control at the Spring 2016 Launch Party](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-2016-spring-launch-audio/adrienne-gruber-audio-reading-from-buoyancy-control-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, presents a fascinating culmination of land and sea, mind and body, in linguistic form. Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water (as well as the creatures that
- [Jennifer Zilm reading from Waiting Room at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/jennifer-zilm-reading-from-waiting-room-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection Take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Waiting Room by Jennifer Zilm
- [Author Interview with Jennifer Zilm, author of Waiting Room](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-jennifer-zilm-author-of-waiting-room/) - CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection Take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featuring a mélange of styles and forms (including sonnets, erasures, unsent emails, footnotes, session notes, CVs, tweets, and other disparate source materials),
- [Interview with Aimee Wall, translator of Testament by Vickie Gendreau](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/interview-with-aimee-wall-translator-of-testament-by-vickie-gendreau/) - On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her “room of her own,” she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year
- [Aimee Wall reading from Testament by Vickie Gendreau at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/aimee-wall-reading-from-testament-by-vickie-gendreau-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her “room of her own,” she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year
- [Author Interview with Kate Sutherland, author of How to Draw a Rhinoceros](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-kate-sutherland-author-of-how-to-draw-a-rhinoceros/) - How to Draw a Rhinoceros, the first book of poems by Canadian writer, scholar, and lawyer Kate Sutherland, mines centuries of rhinoceros representations in art and literature to document the history of European and North American encounters with the animal—from the elephant–rhinoceros battles staged by monarchs in the Middle Ages; the rhinomania that took hold
- [Author Interview with Mat Laporte, author of RATS NEST](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-mat-laporte-author-of-rats-nest/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Fiction Selection Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st century. This debut book of sci-fi stories by Mat Laporte introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a
- [Author Reading: Karen Mac Cormack reading from  Tale Light  at This Ain't The Rosedale Library](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-karen-mac-cormack-reading-from-tale-light-at-this-aint-the-rosedale-library/) - Tale Light brings together selections from Karen Mac Cormack's poetry publications 1984-2009: Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue, and Vanity Release. Also included are previously uncollected poems and a selection of new work. Some of the earlier poems appear inrevised form. TALE LIGHT
- [David Dowker reading from Machine Language at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/david-dowker-reading-from-machine-language-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Machine Language delves the delic, from the pataphysical conjunction of antique paper tape code, a fragment of Sappho and the Gorgon (apparatus) to the writing through (over under sideways around) various texts and subtexts of the postmodern North American rhizome, coding the flows of Black Mountain poetics and so-called "language poetries," elliptical traces of neo-surrealist
- [David Dowker reading from Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/david-dowker-reading-from-virtualis-topologies-of-the-unreal-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, David Dowker and Christine Stewart have created a series of linguistic interjections that run from the allegorical barricades of the
- [Author Reading: David Dowker reading from  Machine Language at This Ain't The Rosedale Library](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-david-dowker-reading-from-machine-language-at-this-aint-the-rosedale-library/) - Machine Language delves the delic, from the pataphysical conjunction of antique paper tape code, a fragment of Sappho and the Gorgon (apparatus) to the writing through (over under sideways around) various texts and subtexts of the postmodern North American rhizome, coding the flows of Black Mountain poetics and so-called "language poetries," elliptical traces of neo-surrealist
- [Video Interview with Mark Goldstein, author of Tracelanguage](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-mark-goldstein-author-of-tracelanguage/) - Tracelanguage is a serial poem made up of six cycles all of which correspond with Paul Celan's 1967 book of poetry, Atemwende. Here, his work is re-inscribed via a transmutation of word material found or developed from within the original text. Tracelanguage: A Shared Breath by Mark Goldstein
- [Video Interview with Mark Goldstein, author of Form of Forms](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-mark-goldstein-author-of-form-of-forms/) - Mark Goldstein's long poem Form of Forms takes as its subject (to paraphrase poet Betsy Warland) Motherloss. It deals with the emotional and bureaucratic nature of identity from the often bewildered and fractured point of view of someone who was relinquished as an infant. Now, as an adult, Goldstein is seeking "information" on the self
- [Mark Goldstein reading from Tracelanguage at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/mark-goldstein-reading-from-tracelanguage-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Tracelanguage is a serial poem made up of six cycles all of which correspond with Paul Celan's 1967 book of poetry, Atemwende. Here, his work is re-inscribed via a transmutation of word material found or developed from within the original text. These poems are elegiac in nature. Tracelanguage: A Shared Breath by Mark Goldstein
- [Author Reading: Mark Goldstein reading from Tracelanguage](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-mark-goldstein-reading-from-tracelanguage/) - Tracelanguage is a serial poem made up of six cycles all of which correspond with Paul Celan's 1967 book of poetry, Atemwende. Here, his work is re-inscribed via a transmutation of word material found or developed from within the original text. These poems are elegiac in nature. A language of landscape figures prominently in the
- [Author Reading: Mark Goldstein reading from Form of Forms](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-mark-goldstein-reading-from-form-of-forms/) - The subject of the long poem that makes up Form of Forms is, to paraphrase poet Betsy Warland: Motherloss. It deals with the emotional and bureaucratic nature of identity from the often bewildered and fractured point of view of someone who was relinquished as an infant. Now, as an adult, Goldstein is seeking "information" on
- [Video Interview with Jason Dickson, author of Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-jason-dickson-author-of-glenn-piano-by-gladys-priddis/) - In a time before time began, one woman will dare the boundaries between madness and sanity to find the lost love that so ever has eluded her. Terror. Duplication. History seen as it has never before. GLENN PIANO BY GLADYS PRIDDIS is a high octane thrill ride of confession and crime, told as only wunderkind
- [Author Reading: Jason Dickson reading from Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-jason-dickson-reading-from-glenn-piano-by-gladys-priddis/) - In a time before time began, one woman will dare the boundaries between madness and sanity to find the lost love that so ever has eluded her. Terror. Duplication. History seen as it has never before. GLENN PIANO BY GLADYS PRIDDIS is a high octane thrill ride of confession and crime, told as only wunderkind
- [Jason Dickson reading from Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/jason-dickson-reading-from-glenn-piano-by-gladys-priddis-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch/) - In a time before time began, one woman will dare the boundaries between madness and sanity to find the lost love that so ever has eluded her. Terror. Duplication. History seen as it has never before. GLENN PIANO BY GLADYS PRIDDIS ia a high octane thrill ride of confession and crime, told as only wunderkind
- [Victor Coleman reading from The Occasional Troubadour at the Fall 2010 Launch - Part 2](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/victor-coleman-reading-from-the-occasional-troubadour-part-2-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - The Occasional Troubadour is a series of 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and cultural favourites generated by applying the mesostic form to a late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes) by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Their Lives and Personalities, Their Songs and Their World (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London,
- [Victor Coleman reading from The Occasional Troubadour at the Fall 2010 Launch - Part 1](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/victor-coleman-reading-from-the-occasional-troubadour-part-1-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - The Occasional Troubadour is a series of 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and cultural favourites generated by applying the mesostic form to a late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes) by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Their Lives and Personalities, Their Songs and Their World (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London,
- [Victor Coleman reading from ivH: An Alphamath Serial at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/victor-coleman-reading-from-ivh-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - ivH: An Alphamath Serial is a book-length poem composed in the tradition of such precursors as Pythagoras, who taught that Number was the essence of all things; Plato, who argued that geometry was the foundation of all knowledge; Leonardo, whose work clearly follows the Renaissance aesthetics of mathematics and the mathematics of aesthetics; Descartes, Pascal,
- [Video Interview with Victor Coleman, author of The Occasional Troubadour](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-victor-coleman-author-of-the-occasional-troubadour/) - The Occasional Troubadour is a series of 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and cultural favourites generated by applying the mesostic form to a late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes) by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Their Lives and Personalities, Their Songs and Their World (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London,
- [Video Interview with Victor Coleman, author of iVH: An Alphamath Serial](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-victor-coleman-author-of-ivh-an-alphamath-serial/) - ivH: An Alphamath Serial is a book-length poem composed in the tradition of such precursors as Pythagoras, who taught that Number was the essence of all things; Plato, who argued that geometry was the foundation of all knowledge; Leonardo, whose work clearly follows the Renaissance aesthetics of mathematics and the mathematics of aesthetics; Descartes, Pascal,
- [Author Reading: Victor Coleman reading from The Occasional Troubadour](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-victor-coleman-reading-from-the-occasional-troubadour/) - The Occasional Troubadour is a series of 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and cultural favourites generated by applying the mesostic form to a late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes) by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Their lives and Personalities, Their Songs and Their World (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London,
- [Video Interview with Jake Kennedy, author of Apollinaire’s Speech to the War Medic](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-jake-kennedy-author-of-apollinaires-speech-to-the-war-medic/) - Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic is to Canadian poetry what Francis Ponge's steaming brioches are to Parisian cobblestone. In other words, this is a book that revels in the that-which-gets-left-behind and is just plain old fascinated with the plop of things. You'll also find several poems about the works and days of artsy folk
- [Jake Kennedy reading from Merz Structure No. 2 at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/jake-kennedy-reading-from-merz-structure-no-2-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters’ “interior house-sculpture” (“Merz Structure No. 2”) was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing with matches accidentally burnt the building down. This sad ‘unmaking,’
- [Jake Kennedy reading from Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/jake-kennedy-reading-from-apollinaires-speech-to-the-war-medic-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Metaphor is plundered as a doorway into the attic of the basement of objects and animals and phenomena, and inside you'll find poem-studies about hammers, tigers, grass, fire, cat piss, killing floors and many other oh my's. You'll also find several poems about the works and days of artsy folk like Samuel Beckett, Cy Twombly,
- [Author Reading: Jake Kennedy reading from  Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-jake-kennedy-reading-from-apollinaires-speech-to-the-war-medic/) - Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic is to Canadian poetry what Francis Ponge's steaming brioches are to Parisian cobblestone. In other words, this is a book that revels in the that-which-gets-left-behind and is just plain old fascinated with the plop of things. Metaphor is plundered as a doorway into the attic of the basement of
- [Author Interview with Jake Kennedy author of Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-jake-kennedy-author-of-merz-structure-no-2-burnt-by-children-at-play/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play is comprised of a number of individual poems—from love lyrics to conceptual elegies, from prompts for improvised performance poems to long poems that meditate on grief. The overarching theme of the book is loss. Merz Structure No. 2
- [Author Interview with Cara Benson, author of (made)](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-author-interview-with-cara-benson-author-of-made/) - These prose poems / juxtaposing the individual / intertwine / objects and occurrences repeatedly / a cosmological chronology / inhabits. Why /narrative tension / mention / barbed wire / pieces accumulate / Rather than a direct or linear / of the universe this / These / references to certain / prose poems / repeatedly /
- [Cara Benson reading from (made) at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/cara-benson-reading-from-made-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch-2/) - These prose poems / juxtaposing the individual / intertwine / objects and occurrences repeatedly / a cosmological chronology / inhabits. Why /narrative tension / mention / barbed wire / pieces accumulate / Rather than a direct or linear / of the universe this / These / references to certain / prose poems / repeatedly /
- [Cara Benson reading from (made) at the Spring 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-spring-launch-videos/cara-benson-reading-from-made-at-the-2010-bookthug-spring-launch/) - These prose poems / juxtaposing the individual / intertwine / objects and occurrences repeatedly / a cosmological chronology / inhabits. Why /narrative tension / mention / barbed wire / pieces accumulate / Rather than a direct or linear / of the universe this / These / references to certain / prose poems / repeatedly /
- [Author Reading: Cara Benson reading from (made)](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-cara-benson-reading-from-made/) - In the magical dictionary of (made), Cara Benson renders hotel facades in "marshmallow" - not a color, but the surface - a substance I associate, at least in North America, with outdoor recreational fires. That hotel is going to burn to a crisp, in the social and planetary imaginary of Benson's intense work. What's particularly
- [Video Interview with Stephen Cain, author of I Can Say Interpellation](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-stephen-cain-author-of-i-can-say-interpellation/) - Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance with authority each time they open a book of verse? I Can Say Interpellation remedies these problems by reconfiguring some of the best-known children's rhymes for political purpose.
- [Stephen Cain reading from STANZAS at the Fall 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/stephen-cain-reading-from-stanzas-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Stephen Cain reads from his chapbook, STANZAS.
- [Stephen Cain reading from I Can Say Interpellation at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/stephen-cain-reading-from-i-can-say-interpellation-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance with authority each time they open a book of verse? I Can Say Interpellation remedies these problems by reconfiguring some of the best-known children's rhymes for political purpose.
- [Stephen Cain reading from False Friends at the Spring 2017 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2017-spring-launch-videos/stephen-cain-reading-from-false-friends-at-the-2017-bookthug-spring-launch/) - False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term “false friends”—two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humourous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore
- [Author Reading: Stephen Cain reading from I Can Say Interpellation](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-stephen-cain-reading-from-i-can-say-interpellation/) - Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance with authority each time they open a book of verse? I Can Say Interpellation remedies these problems by reconfiguring some of the best-known children's rhymes for political purpose.
- [Video Interview with Michael Boughn, author of Great Canadian Poems for the Aged](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-michael-boughn-author-of-great-canadian-poems-for-the-aged/) - Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1, Illus. Ed. dares to go where no book of Canadian poetry has gone before - deep into the heart of darkness epitomized by the idea of the Great White North. Except white is not dark. And the heart thing was a bit overused even by the time
- [Video Interview with Michael Boughn, author of Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-michael-boughn-author-of-cosmographia-a-post-lucrecian-faux-micro-epic/) - Tracking the classic epic journey through the unfolding cosmos toward home, though occasionally disoriented by milling cows with similar intent, Cosmographia teems with nasty political invective, scurrilous spiritual slander, and endless exploitive sexual innuendo. Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn
- [Michael Boughn reading from Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1. at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/michael-boughn-reading-from-great-canadian-poems-for-the-aged-vol-1-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1, Illus. Ed. dares to go where no book of Canadian poetry has gone before - deep into the heart of darkness epitomized by the idea of the Great White North. Except white is not dark. And the heart thing was a bit overused even by the time
- [Michael Boughn reading from Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic at the Fall 2010 Launch  - Part 2](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/michael-boughn-reading-from-cosmographia-a-post-lucrecian-faux-micro-epic-part-2-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Tracking the classic epic journey through the unfolding cosmos toward home, though occasionally disoriented by milling cows with similar intent, Cosmographia teems with nasty political invective, scurrilous spiritual slander, and endless exploitive sexual innuendo. Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn
- [Michael Boughn reading from Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic at the Fall 2010 Launch - Part 1](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/michael-boughn-reading-from-cosmographia-a-post-lucrecian-faux-micro-epic-part-1-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Tracking the classic epic journey through the unfolding cosmos toward home, though occasionally disoriented by milling cows with similar intent, Cosmographia teems with nasty political invective, scurrilous spiritual slander, and endless exploitive sexual innuendo. Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn
- [Michael Boughn reading from City: Book One: Singular Assumptions at the Fall 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-fall-launch-videos/michael-boughn-reading-from-city-book-one-singular-assumptions-at-the-2014-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Taking Charles Olson's "Poem 143—the festival aspect" as its provocation and partner in conversation, Michael Boughn's City sets out on a voyage to explore the Three Towns central to Olson's poem and the Vedic myth that it responds to. Combining observations and commentary on current affairs with references to and considerations of traditional texts by
- [Malcolm Sutton introducing The Coming Envelope Issue 6 at the Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/malcolm-sutton-introducing-the-coming-envelope-issue-6-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Five writers have contributed work to Issue 6: Michael Boughn, who gives us three prose poems that lovingly, line by line, turn by turn, disorient and reorient us, kaleidoscoping the reader's eye's lens; Tamara Faith Berger, whose short piece uproots our thinking and sensibilities on sex and pornography and violence; Christopher Higgs, who cuts up,
- [Author Reading: Michael Boughn reading from Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-michael-boughn-reading-from-cosmographia-a-post-lucrecian-faux-micro-epic/) - Listen to Michael read from Cosmographia: A Post-Lucrecian Faux Micro-Epic at the Atwater Poetry Project's evening reading and reception with poetry finalists for the 75th Governor General's Literary Awards that took place on Nov 10, 2011. Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn
- [Kate Eichhorn reading from Fieldnotes, a Forensic at the Fall 2010 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2010-fall-launch-videos/kate-eichhorn-reading-from-fieldnotes-a-forensic-at-the-2010-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Fieldnotes, a Forensic charts one forensic anthropologist's series of descents in the first decade of the new millennium - a decade when forensic discourses and experts became ubiquitous in popular culture and on the daily news. Fieldnotes, a forensic by Kate Eichhorn
- [Author Reading: Kate Eichhorn reading from Fieldnotes, a Forensic](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-kate-eichhorn-reading-from-fieldnotes-a-forensic/) - Listen to Kate read from Fieldnotes, a Forensic at the Atwater Poetry Project's evening reading and reception with poetry finalists for the 75th Governor General's Literary Awards that took place on Nov 10, 2011. Her painful legs refused to emerge. It was a question of a particular movement. A passage from analyses to terrifying hallucination.
- [Video Interview with Shannon Maguire, author of fur(l) parachute](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-shannon-maguire-author-of-furl-parachute/) - fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem "Wulf and Eadwacer." Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman's lament, or even a broken elegy, the language of fur(l) parachute
- [Shannon Maguire reading from Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina at the Fall 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-fall-launch-videos/shannon-maguire-reading-from-myrmurs-an-exploded-sestina-at-the-2015-bookthug-fall-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval textuality to contemporary politics and poetics, this poem explores living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; ants; interspecies entanglements; strange attachments; neocolonialism and how
- [Shannon Maguire reading from fur(l) parachute at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/shannon-maguire-reading-from-furl-parachute-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem “Wulf and Eadwacer.” Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman’s lament, or even a broken elegy, the language of fur(l) parachute
- [Author Reading: Shannon Maguire reading from  fur(l) parachute](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-shannon-maguire-reading-from-furl-parachute/) - fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem "Wulf and Eadwacer." Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman's lament, or even a broken elegy, the language of fur(l) parachute
- [Author Interview with Shannon Maguire author of Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-shannon-maguire-author-of-myrmurs-an-exploded-sestina/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval textuality to contemporary politics and poetics, this poem explores living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; ants; interspecies entanglements; strange attachments; neocolonialism and how
- [Author Interview with Angela Carr, author of The Rose Concordance](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-author-interview-with-angela-carr-author-of-the-rose-concordance/) - In The Rose Concordance, Angela Carr sets up the rules for a game and then breaks them. The poems trace a constellation of fountains, whose waters lap from an erotic medieval poem. Luxury rushes headlong into Felony, Love hears Irony in Ecstasy. Like fountains, these poems resist any one enduring shape or reading. The Rose
- [Chantal Neveu and Angela Carr reading from Coit at the  Fall 2012 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2012-fall-launch-videos/chantal-neveu-and-angela-carr-reading-from-coit-at-the-2012-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In Coït, minimalist traces of language cling to a series of mapped channels. Every channel is a tenuous archive of choreographed gestures recorded by the poet from the edges of dance stages. Here, spaces hold words and words hold movement. A book marked by inexhaustible passages, this exquisite English language translation of Québécoise poet Chantal
- [Author Reading: Angela Carr Reading from The Rose Concordance](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-angela-carr-reading-from-the-rose-concordance/) - In The Rose Concordance, Angela Carr sets up the rules for a game and then breaks them. The poems trace a constellation of fountains, whose waters lap from an erotic medieval poem. Luxury rushes headlong into Felony, Love hears Irony in Ecstasy. Like fountains, these poems resist any one enduring shape or reading. For in
- [Video Interview with Phil Hall, author of The Small Nouns Crying Faith](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-phil-hall-author-of-the-small-nouns-crying-faith/) - The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." The Small Nouns Crying Faith
- [Video Interview with Phil Hall, author of Killdeer](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-phil-hall-author-of-killdeer/) - Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to - Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. Killdeer: essay poems
- [Phil Hall reading from The Small Nouns Crying Faith at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/phil-hall-reading-from-the-small-nouns-crying-faith-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs,
- [Phil Hall reading from Killdeer at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/phil-hall-reading-from-killdeer-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to - Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. Killdeer: essay poems
- [Phil Hall](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookhug-authors/phil-hall/) - Phil Hall was the 2011 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in English for his book of essay-poems, Killdeer. In 2012, Killdeer also won Ontario’s Trillium Book Award, an Alcuin Design Award, and was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Previously, Trouble Sleeping (2001) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award, and
- [Author Reading: Phil Hall reading from The Small Nouns Crying Faith](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-phil-hall-reading-from-the-small-nouns-crying-faith/) - The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs,
- [Author Reading: Phil Hall reading from Killdeer at the Atwater Poetry Project](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-phil-hall-reading-from-killdeer-at-the-atwater-poetry-project/) - Listen to Phil read from Killdeer at the Atwater Poetry Project's evening reading and reception with poetry finalists for the 75th Governor General's Literary Awards that took place on Nov 10, 2011. Killdeer: essay poems by Phil Hall
- [Author Reading: Phil Hall reading from Killdeer](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-phil-hall-reading-from-killdeer/) - Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). In Killdeer, he offers memories of, and homages to - Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. His
- [Author Interview with Chris Eaton, author of Chris Eaton, a Biography](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-author-interview-with-chris-eaton-author-of-chris-eaton-a-biography/) - Chris Eaton, A Biography is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have something in common with you? Dates, places, interests? Chris Eaton, a Biography by
- [Chris Eaton reading from Chris Eaton, a Biography at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/chris-eaton-reading-from-chris-eaton-a-biography-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Chris Eaton, A Biography is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have something in common with you? Dates, places, interests? How coincidental are these connections?
- [Author Reading: Chris Eaton reading from Chris Eaton, a Biography](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-chris-eaton-reading-from-chris-eaton-a-biography/) - Chris Eaton, A Biography is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have something in common with you? Dates, places, interests? How coincidental are these connections?
- [Kim Minkus reading from Tuft at the Spring 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-spring-launch-videos/kim-minkus-reading-from-tuft-at-the-2013-bookthug-spring-launch/) - With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we "observe the green elite" and "iceplants bloom in the monotony of paved paths." We tangle and climb into language and are swept into the lives of the animals that haunt the shores of our city's waterways. This is a world
- [Author Reading: Kim Minkus reading from Tuft](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-kim-minkus-reading-from-tuft/) - With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we "observe the green elite" and "iceplants bloom in the monotony of paved paths." We tangle and climb into language and are swept into the lives of the animals that haunt the shores of our city's waterways. This is a world
- [Ron Silliman reading from Revelator at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/ron-silliman-reading-from-revelator-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It's the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him three centuries to complete. We are hopeful. Universe is a poem of globalization and post-global poetics (an important reason for publishing this key section outside
- [Video Interview with Ron Silliman, author of Revelator](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-ron-silliman-author-of-revelator/) - Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It’s the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him three centuries to complete. We are hopeful. Universe is a poem of globalization and post-global poetics (an important reason for publishing this key section outside
- [Author Reading: Ron Silliman reading from Revelator](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-ron-silliman-reading-from-revelator/) - Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It's the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him three centuries to complete. We are hopeful. Universe is a poem of globalization and post-global poetics (an important reason for publishing this key section outside
- [Michael Blouin reading from I Don't Know How To Behave at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/michael-blouin-reading-from-i-dont-know-how-to-behave-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - I Don't Know How To Behave combines the true story of Canadian daredevil and stunt driver Ken Carter (1938-1983) with imagined biographical elements from the lives of Canadian film director Bruce Mcdonald and Canadian poet Gillian Sze. Along the way, this quintessential Canadian story crashes head first into many related things, from screenplay theory to
- [Author Reading: Michael Blouin reading from  I Don't Know How To Behave](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-michael-blouin-reading-from-i-dont-know-how-to-behave/) - I Don't Know How To Behave combines the true story of Canadian daredevil and stunt driver Ken Carter (1938-1983) with imagined biographical elements from the lives of Canadian film director Bruce Mcdonald and Canadian poet Gillian Sze. Along the way, this quintessential Canadian story crashes head first into many related things, from screenplay theory to
- [Video Interview with Sandra Ridley, author of The Counting House](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-sandra-ridley-author-of-the-counting-house/) - Akin to a bookkeeper’s accounting of what’s given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and origins of traditional rhymes involving kings and queens serve as inventory, alongside elements of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and Simone de
- [Sandra Ridley reading from The Counting House at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/sandra-ridley-reading-from-the-counting-house-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Akin to a bookkeeper's accounting of what's given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and origins of traditional rhymes involving kings and queens serve as inventory, alongside elements of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish and Simone de
- [Sandra Ridley reading from Silvija at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/sandra-ridley-reading-from-silvija-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley’s Silvija combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. Pulsing with the award-winning
- [Author Reading: Sandra Ridley reading from The Counting House](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-sandra-ridley-reading-from-the-counting-house/) - Akin to a bookkeeper's accounting of what's given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and origins of traditional rhymes involving kings and queens serve as inventory, alongside elements of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish and Simone de
- [Video Interview with Julie Joosten, author of Light Light](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-julie-joosten-author-of-light-light/) - Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of “objectivity” as the dissolution of a discrete self and
- [Julie Joosten reading from Light Light at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/julie-joosten-reading-from-light-light-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of "objectivity" as the dissolution of a discrete self and
- [Author Reading: Julie Joosten reading from Light Light](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-julie-joosten-reading-from-light-light/) - Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of "objectivity" as the dissolution of a discrete self and
- [Video Interview with David B. Goldstein, author of Laws of Rest](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-david-b-goldstein-author-of-laws-of-rest/) - Laws of Rest explores a new form, the prose sonnet - an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi
- [Interview with David B. Goldstein, author of Lost Originals](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/interview-with-david-b-goldstein-author-of-lost-originals/) - Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art. Starting from the notion that every act of speaking is a translation between worlds, writer, scholar, and critic David B. Goldstein’s Lost Originals comprises a collection of elegies for a series of “lost originals”—objects, images, and
- [David B. Goldstein reading from Lost Originals at the Fall 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-fall-launch-videos/david-b-goldstein-reading-from-lost-originals-at-the-2016-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art. Starting from the notion that every act of speaking is a translation between worlds, writer, scholar, and critic David B. Goldstein’s Lost Originals comprises a collection of elegies for a series of “lost originals”—objects, images, and
- [David B. Goldstein reading from Laws of Rest at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/david-b-goldstein-reading-from-laws-of-rest-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Laws of Rest explores a new form, the prose sonnet - an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi
- [Author Reading: David B. Goldstein reading from Laws of Rest](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-david-b-goldstein-reading-from-laws-of-rest/) - Laws of Rest explores a new form, the prose sonnet - an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. In their box-like aesthetics, the poems conjure the weird, meticulous worlds of Joseph Cornell or Edmund Spenser. But anything can happen in these little rooms, in which the overheard conversation of taxi
- [Video Interview with Colin Fulton, author of Life Experience Coolant](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/the-bookthug-video-interview-with-colin-fulton-author-of-life-experience-coolant/) - Life Experience Coolant is a collection of four long poems informed by artistic isolation, directionless reading, and the avoidance mechanisms that make poetry simultaneously possible and impossible at our current cultural velocity. Life Experience Coolant by Colin Fulton
- [Author Reading: Colin Fulton reading from Life Experience Coolant](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-colin-fulton-reading-from-life-experience-coolant/) - Life Experience Coolant is a collection of four long poems informed by artistic isolation, directionless reading, and the avoidance mechanisms that make poetry simultaneously possible and impossible at our current cultural velocity. Using methodologies of textual appropriation, collage, rehistoricization and self-sufficent rhetoricality, Life Experience Coolant address transgenderedness, the late-late-late capitalist situation, gaming culture and new
- [Guadalupe Muro, author of Air Carnation, reading and performing with Songs for Runaway Girls at the Spring 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-spring-launch-videos/guadalupe-muro-author-of-air-carnation-reading-and-performing-with-songs-for-runaway-girls-at-the-2014-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Guadalupe Muro, recipient of the Raul Urtusan - Frances Harley Scholarship for Young Emerging Artists from Argentina, has always had her own unique way of experiencing life. When applied to her writing, Muro says she finally "felt like a dog deciding to be a dog." Muro's Spanish publications have achieved strong acclaim, and now, we
- [Author Reading: Guadalupe Muro author of Air Carnation, with music from Songs for Runaway Girls](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-guadalupe-muro-author-of-air-carnation-with-music-from-songs-for-runaway-girls/) - Air Carnation features an absorbing narrative that bridges non-fiction and fiction, poetry and song, as Muro explores themes of independence in love and the writerly life. With sojourns in Argentina, Buenos Aires, New York, Washington, and a cross-Canada train passage from Edmonton to Toronto, Air Carnation is an affecting work that will have readers laughing,
- [Panel: bpNichol panel featuring Stephen Cain, Lola Tostevin, Brian Dedora and moderated by Gregory Betts](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-panel-bpnichel-panel-including-stephen-cain-lola-tostevin-brian-dedora-moderated-by-gregory-betts/) - bpNichol (1944-1988) has attained iconic status in Canadian literature in recent years, particularly through his lifelong poem The Martyrology and his work in visual and sound poetry. Numerous early "fugitive" sequences of Nichol's are often referred to in critical studies, but are long out of print and only available in library special collections or in
- [bpNichol panel featuring Stephen Cain, Lola Tostevin, Brian Dedora, and moderated by Gregory Betts, at the Spring 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-spring-launch-videos/bpnichol-panel-including-stephen-cain-lola-tostevin-brian-dedora-moderated-by-gregory-betts-at-the-2014-bookthug-spring-launch/) - bpNichol (1944-1988) has attained iconic status in Canadian literature in recent years, particularly through his lifelong poem The Martyrology and his work in visual and sound poetry. Numerous early "fugitive" sequences of Nichol's are often referred to in critical studies, but are long out of print and only available in library special collections or in
- [Author Reading: Wayne Clifford reading from Theseus](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-wayne-clifford-reading-from-theseus/) - The value of Theseus is as much about its pedigree as the writing itself. The collaboration for this new book began in the autumn of 1966. bpNichol and Wayne Clifford had worked together early in their literary careers; in fact, Clifford had been the editor of Nichol's first trade book, published with Coach House Press.
- [Author Interview with Steven Ross Smith, author of Emanations: fluttertongue 6](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-steven-ross-smith-author-of-emanations-fluttertongue-6/) - These poems “emanate” from specific works by other poets, including bpNichol, Sylvia Legris, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Lisa Robertson. In this charged and frenetic work, the dominant themes are nature's precariousness, social conundrums, and poetics. This collection will appeal to fans of highly torqued and playful language reminiscent of bpNichol's The Alphabet Game, Phil Hall's
- [Author Reading: Aisha Sasha John reading from THOU](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-aisha-sasha-john-reading-from-thou/) - Following the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU – a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states of being, THOU investigates the idea of "you" – what it
- [Author Reading: Aisha Sasha John reading from The Shining Material](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-aisha-sasha-john-reading-from-the-shining-material/) - In The Shining Material, Aisha Sasha John is a hostess; welcome to her house. Inside there is a party, a prayer, a painting that puts its fingers in your mouth - let it: in The Shining Material witness Aisha Sasha John braid self-portraiture, ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to create a collection of
- [Aisha Sasha John reading from THOU at the Spring 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-spring-launch-videos/aisha-sasha-john-reading-from-thou-at-the-2014-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Following the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU – a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems exploring the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that connects these two states of being, THOU investigates the idea of "you" – what it
- [Aisha Sasha John reading from The Shining Material at the Spring 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-spring-launch-videos/aisha-sasha-john-reading-from-the-shining-material-at-the-2011-bookthug-spring-launch/) - In The Shining Material, Aisha Sasha John is a hostess; welcome to her house. Inside there is a party, a prayer, a painting that puts its fingers in your mouth – let it: in The Shining Material witness Aisha Sasha John braid self-portraiture, ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to create a collection of
- [Malcolm Sutton introducing The Coming Envelope Issue #8 at the Fall 2013 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2013-fall-launch-videos/malcolm-suttong-introducing-the-coming-envelope-issue-8-at-the-2013-bookthug-fall-launch/) - The Coming Envelope, Issue #8 features new fiction by 5 writers: Jacob Wren, Cynthia Girard, John Goldbach, Oisin Curran, and Lucy Ives.
- [Jacob Wren reading from Polyamorous Love Song at the Spring 2014 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2014-spring-launch-videos/jacob-wren-reading-from-polyamorous-love-song-at-the-2014-bookthug-spring-launch/) - From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
- [Author Reading: Jacob Wren reading from Polyamorous Love Song](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-jacob-wren-reading-from-polyamorous-love-song/) - From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one in which they live.
- [Jacob Wren reading from Rich and Poor at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2016-spring-launch-videos/jacob-wren-reading-from-rich-and-poor-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Quill and Quire Spring 2016 Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection Big Other's Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016 Selection Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political
- [Carellin Brooks reading from One Hundred Days of Rain at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/carellin-brooks-reading-from-one-hundred-days-of-rain-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Fiction Selection In prose by turns haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks’ One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator’s encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to
- [Author Reading: One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-one-hundred-days-of-rain-by-carellin-brooks/) - In prose by turns haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks’ One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator’s encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to encounter Vancouver’s sky and city streets, the narrator
- [Lesley Battler reading from Endangered Hydrocarbons at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/lesley-battler-reading-from-endangered-hydrocarbons-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Fracking—tar-sand runoff—dirty oil extraction. This is the language of our oil-addicted 21st-century society: incredibly invasive, blatant in its purpose, and richly embedded in mythological and archetypal symbolism. The ultimate goal of the industry: To core the underworld. Endangered Hydrocarbons by Lesley Battler
- [Author Reading: Lesley Battler reading from Endangered Hydrocarbons](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-lesley-battler-reading-from-endangered-hydrocarbons/) - Fracking – tar-sand runoff – dirty oil extraction. This is the language of our oil-addicted 21st-century society: incredibly invasive, blatant in its purpose, and richly embedded in mythological and archetypal symbolism. The ultimate goal of the industry: To core the underworld. Endangered Hydrocarbons by Lesley Battler
- [Author Interview with Lesley Battler author of Endangered Hydrocarbons](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-lesley-battler-author-of-endangered-hydrocarbons/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Fracking—tar-sand runoff—dirty oil extraction. This is the language of our oil-addicted 21st-century society: incredibly invasive, blatant in its purpose, and richly embedded in mythological and archetypal symbolism. The ultimate goal of the industry: To core the underworld. Endangered Hydrocarbons, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poetry, shows
- [Mike Steeves reading from Giving Up at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/mike-steeves-reading-from-giving-up-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Fiction Selection At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of a modern couple’s apartment. In grappling with the line between what happened
- [Author Reading: Giving Up by Mike Steeves](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-giving-up-by-mike-steeves/) - In grappling with the line between what happened and what might have happened, Steeves gives voice to the anguish of a generation of people who grew up with great expectations, and are now settling into their own personal failures and compromises: James is obsessed with completing his life’s work. Mary is worried about their problems
- [Author Reading: the pet radish, shrunken by Pearl Pirie](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-the-pet-radish-shrunken-by-pearl-pirie/) - the pet radish, shrunken, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie, deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie style, this fresh, quirky, and clear-seeing collection speaks in a range of forms and voices: From a military convoy of turtles, to a Kafkaesque conversation with a housefly,
- [Author Interview with Pearl Pirie author of the pet radish, shrunken](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/author-video-interviews/author-interview-with-pearl-pirie-author-of-the-pet-radish-shrunken/) - In this post-lyrical era, poems can be stories, or they can just as easily be exuberant laughter set to words, an experiment in language, or an incidental collation of plays on a Scrabble board. the pet radish, shrunken, the third full collection of poetry from the inimitable Pearl Pirie, deals in the poetics of sound,
- [Spring 2015 Season](https://bookhugpress.ca/bookthug-spring-2015-season/) - Click on the link (or on the image) to download a PDF copy of the 32 page, full colour BookThug Spring 2015 Catalogue (just 1.6 MB). Giving Up by Mike Steeves Alice in Plunderland by Steve McCaffery (Illustrations by Clelia Scala) The Thought House of Philippa by Suzanne Leblanc (Translation by Oana Avasilichioaei & Ingrid
- [Jimmy McInnes reading from A More Perfect [ at the Spring 2015 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2015-spring-launch-videos/jimmy-mcinnes-reading-from-a-more-perfect-at-the-2015-bookthug-spring-launch/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Taking as its source text Barack Obama’s campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes acts as a poetic translation of the rhetorical devices often used in political speeches. Like poetry, the campaign speech depends heavily upon the manipulation of language—the ways
- [Author Reading: A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-author-readings/bookthug-author-reading-a-more-perfect-by-jimmy-mcinnes/) - Taking as its source text Barack Obama’s campaign speech from March 18, 2008, A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes acts as a poetic translation of the rhetorical devices often used in political speeches. Like poetry, the campaign speech depends heavily upon the manipulation of language – the ways in which words are able to
- [Audio](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/) - Author Readings 10th Anniversary Party Audio
- [Steve McCaffery reading from Panopticon at the Fall 2011 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/videos/2011-fall-launch-videos/steve-mccaffery-reading-from-panopticon-at-the-2011-bookthug-fall-launch/) - Announcing the long-awaited reprint of Steve McCaffery's rare 1984 intervention into fiction (if "fiction" indeed this be). Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon Papers" McCaffery's Panopticon shatters all omnivison in a tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical comment and narrative critique. Panopticon by Steve McCaffery
- [Stephen Thomas reading from The Jokes at the Spring 2016 Launch](https://bookhugpress.ca/audio/bookthug-2016-spring-launch-audio/stephen-thomas-reading-from-the-jokes-at-the-2016-bookthug-spring-launch/) - Like a series of moments in a social media–like ‘feed,’ this collection of very short stories riffs on the form of ‘the joke,’ but as this might be understood by the best culture-critical comedians of our time: Andy Kaufman, Stephen Wright, Jon Stewart, Richard Pryor. Much like those stand-up artists who sanctified the joke-form, these
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- [2025 Creative Nonfiction and Translated Literature Subscription](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/subscription-packages/2025-subscriptions/2025-creative-nonfiction-and-translated-literature-subscription-package/) - If there are two areas of publishing we particularly love here at Book*hug, it's creative nonfiction and translation. With the 2025 Creative Nonfiction and Translated Literature Subscription, you’ll receive every envelope-pushing, formally inventive, and utterly original work in these two categories we’ll publish throughout the year at more than a 30% discount. Included in the 2025 Creative Nonfiction and Translated Literature Subscription: elseship: an unrequited affair by Tree Abraham (creative nonfiction/memoir; April 2025) You Crushed It by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard, translated from French by Neil Smith (fiction/translated literature; April 2025) The Wax Child by Olga Ravn, translated from Danish by Martin Aitken (September) Worldly Girls by Tamara Jong (memoir; September 2025) Go/No-Go: A Journey into the Research and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders by Marianne Apostolides (nonfiction; October 2025) The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert, translated from French by Aleshia Jensen (fiction/translated literature; November 2025) How it Works: For 2025 print subscribers: book packages will be mailed twice during the year, in May (for spring releases) and in November (for fall releases). Please note that if you become a subscriber after September 2025, you will receive all the books in your subscription package in one shipment that will mailed in November. For 2025 eBook subscribers: ePub files of books included in your digital subscription package will be sent by email when they are available each season. Every 2025 Creative Nonfiction and Translated Literature Subscription also includes: Two complimentary backlist titles, specially hand-selected for you by our team. Print subscribers will receive one complimentary backlist title with each book shipment; eBook subscribers will receive one complimentary backlist ePub file by email in the spring and a second ePub file in the fall season.
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- [A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/anita-anand/a-convergence-of-solitudes-by-anita-anand/) - A story of identity, connection, and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes presents the lives of two families across the Partition of India, Vietnam’s Operation Babylift, and two Quebec referendums. Teenage lovers Sunil and Hima defy taboos to come together as India divides in two. They traverse the world to Montreal and raise a family, but
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- [Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/literature-in-translation/holy-winter-by-maria-stepanova-translated-by-sasha-dugdale/) - A profoundly moving book-length poem from “Russia’s greatest living poet” (Poetry) and the acclaimed author of In Memory of Memory. Maria Stepanova was a highly influential figure in Moscow’s cosmopolitan literary scene for many years until Putin strangled it, along with civil liberties and dissent. Written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, Holy Winter 20/21
- [In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/in-memory-of-memory-by-maria-stepanova-translated-by-sasha-dugdale/) - Audiobook Sample: An exciting contemporary Russian writer explores terra incognita: the still-living margins of history. Following the death of her aunt, the narrator of In Memory of Memory is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia.
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- [Barbara by Joni Murphy](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/barbara-by-joni-murphy/) - From the author of Double Teenage and Talking Animals comes an intimate portrait of a woman losing and finding her identity through the business and art of moviemaking. Barbara is born just before World War II to a tragically beautiful mother and a father who becomes an engineer in the famous Manhattan Project. When Barbara is thirteen, her mother
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- [You Crushed It by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard, translated by Neil Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/you-crushed-it-by-jean-philippe-baril-guerard-translated-by-neil-smith/) - With the caustic daring of Bret Easton Ellis and the offbeat, psychological insight of Douglas Coupland, You Crushed It is a captivating exploration of love and the corroding nature of power in creative industries. Raph Massi is crushing it. A young up-and-coming comedian, he’s successfully navigating the internal cosmos of the stand-up industry and burying
- [7th Cousins: An Automythography by Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/christine-brubaker/7th-cousins-an-automythography-by-erin-brubacher-and-christine-brubaker/) - A stranger asked if we were walking to learn how to work and be together. This was certainly part of it. In July 2015, Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker traced the migration route of their Mennonite ancestors by walking 700 kilometres from Pennsylvania to Ontario. Along the way they were hosted by a series of
- [Walking and Stealing by Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/new-books/walking-and-stealing-by-stephen-cain/) - In this triptych of serial poems steeped in baseball and Toronto, Stephen Cain considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices. “Walking & Stealing” was composed between innings of his son’s little league baseball games. The sport becomes a site for explorations of duration, association, and subjectivity. The ninety-nine poems of “Intentional Walks” follow
- [Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea by Liz Worth](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/liz-worth/inside-every-dream-a-raging-sea-by-liz-worth/) - Our lives are full of personal legend. Trivial details can feel fated, weighted with meaning. What happens when we start to see the words we speak as spells? Where do the lines of ritual, magic, and daily life blur? Inspired by Worth’s professional tarot reading, these poems explore the thin veil between them and suggest
- [Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency, Translated by Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/aimee-wall/sadie-x-by-clara-dupuis-morency-translated-by-aimee-wall/) - Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Régnier, who taught her that to study
- [Trivial Everyday Things: Selected Poems by Jorgen Leth, translated by Martin Aitken](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jorgen-leth/trivial-everyday-things-selected-poems-by-jorgen-leth-translated-from-the-danish-by-martin-aitken/) - Jørgen Leth was one of Denmark’s foremost modern poets and a leading international filmmaker. As a poet, he consistently employed unostentatious, matter-of-fact language and exhibits strong filmic qualities, often in the form of notes and stage directions. Poems and films: two sides of his extensive ouevre, intricately interwoven. Watch the poem. Read the film. Leth
- [Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim by Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-by-jacob-wren/) - What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren’t your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time. A depressed writer visits a war
- [I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind by Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/i-cant-get-you-out-of-my-mind-by-marianne-apostolides/) - What does it mean to say “I love you”? Ariadne is a single, fortysomething writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current manuscript, a book about the declaration of love, is the need to understand why: why her lover has returned to his wife, why their
- [Rich & Poor: The Single (MP3 Digital Download)](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/audio/rich-poor-the-single-mp3-digital-download/) - Audio Samples: Side One: Side Two:
- [Comma by Jennifer Still](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jennifer-still/comma-by-jennifer-still/) - Winner of the 2018 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry It was a long silence that brought me to the erasure poem. Not mine, but my brother’s, during his many months in a coma. I came across a notebook of his—a pocketsized, handwritten field guide of prairie grasses. I read it for companionship, signs of consciousness, attention.
- [Better Nature by Fenn Stewart](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/better-nature-by-fenn-stewart/) - Much of the language that makes up Better Nature—the first poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart—is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century. But rather than waxing poetic about the untouched Great White North, Stewart inlays found materials (early settler archives,
- [No Credit River by Zoe Whittall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/memoir/no-credit-river-by-zoe-whittall/) - “It is a confusing thing to be born between generations where the one above thinks nothing is trauma and the one below thinks everything is trauma.” From acclaimed novelist and television writer Zoe Whittall comes a memoir in prose poetry that reconfirms her celebrated honesty, emotional acuity, and wit. Riving and probing a period of
- [Re: Wild Her by Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/new-books/re-wild-her-by-shannon-webb-campbell/) - In nature, rewilding restores biodiversity and ecosystems. In this new collection from award-winning poet Shannon Webb-Campbell, it is a form of Indigenous resurgence and pleasure. Drawing upon ecology, traditional knowledge, and sexuality, Re: Wild Her is a personal and poetic awakening. In these poems, artistry and nature are intertwined, speaking to the sensual musings of
- [Not Even the Sound of a River by Hélène Dorion, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/not-even-the-sound-of-a-river-by-helene-dorion-translated-by-jonathan-kaplansky/) - Not Even the Sound of a River is a moving tale of love’s phantom pains as shared through the relationships between three generations of mothers and daughters. Hanna drives down the St. Lawrence River to her late mother’s hometown, hoping to find out more about the distant woman who began to reveal herself only through
- [Light Light by Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/light-light-poetry-by-julie-joosten/) - Finalist for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Finalist for the 2014 Goldie Awards: Poetry Category Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses
- [The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/the-absence-of-zero-by-ralph-kolewe/) - The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly executed celebration of the long poem tradition. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of thinking in language, a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20
- [The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/the-employees-by-olga-ravn-translated-by-martin-aitken/) - Audiobook Sample: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. LeGuin Prize for Fiction, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members alike complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports
- [My Work by Olga Ravn, translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/my-work-by-olga-ravn-translated-by-jennifer-russell-and-sophia-hersi-smith/) - Audiobook Sample: From the acclaimed author of the International Booker Prize–shortlisted literary sensation The Employees comes a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood. Anna is utterly lost. Still in shock after the birth of her son, she moves to snowbound Stockholm with her newborn and boyfriend, where a chasm soon opens between the
- [Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity, and Home, edited by Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/back-where-i-came-from-on-culture-identity-and-home-edited-by-taslim-jaffer-and-omar-mouallem/) - In this collection of personal essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherlands as visitors. Set against mountainous terrain, tropical beaches, bustling cities, and remote villages, these narratives weave socio-political commentary with writers’ reflections on who they are, where they belong, and what “home” means to them. The result is
- [Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinsong](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/rag-cosmology-by-erin-robinsong/) - Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry The ecological is personal; the personal is ecological. Rag Cosmology is a pulsating meditation on this most intimate relationship. These poems inject pleasure deep into the tissues of our language and state, countering fatalist narratives with the intimacy of entanglement and engagement. Green extravagant mind wet and moving
- [These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/erin-brubacher/these-songs-i-know-by-heart-by-erin-brubacher/) - Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other beloveds show her that motherhood is more than giving birth, art is never finished, and love is not linear.
- [Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/new-books/oh-witness-dey-by-shani-mootoo/) - Two-timer I am, infatuated With the country in which I love Yearning in corners, around bends For the one I grew up in Shani Mootoo’s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false
- [Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/cane-fire-by-shani-mootoo/) - From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally
- [Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/polar-vortex-by-shani-mootoo/) - Audiobook Sample Some secrets never die… Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque Countryside town. What Alex doesn’t know is that, in moving, Priya is running from her past—from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash, who pursued her for many years, both online and off. Time has passed, however,
- [Caesaria by Hanna Nordenhök, translated by Saskia Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/hanna-nordenhok/caesaria-by-hanna-nordenhok-translated-by-saskia-vogel/) - From Hanna Nordenhök comes a gothic tale set at the dawn of modern gynecology, when the female body appears as a cryptic landscape and male hubris reigns. On a remote country estate in nineteenth-century Sweden, a renowned obstetrician keeps a young girl named Caesaria as a trophy: she was the first baby he delivered by
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- [Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/readopolis-by-bertrand-laverdure-translated-by-oana-avasilichioaei/) - Audiobook Sample: From award-winning writer Bertrand Laverdure comes Readopolis, a novel translated by Oana Avasilichioaei. It’s 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He’s bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at
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- [Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/lunar-tides-by-shannon-webb-campbell/) - Expansive and enveloping, Webb-Campbell’s collection asks, “Who am I in relation to the moon?” These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon, and long, deep familial relationships that are both personal and ancestral. Originating from Webb-Campbell’s
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- [Suture by Nic Brewer](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/suture-by-nic-brewer/) - Audiobook Sample: Book Club Prompts for Suture - View and Download. To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word
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- [Coit by Chantal Neveu, translated by Angela Carr](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/angela-carr/coit-by-chantal-neveu-translated-by-angela-carr/) - In Coït, minimalist traces of language cling to a series of mapped channels. Every channel is a tenuous archive of choreographed gestures recorded by the poet from the edges of dance stages. Here, spaces hold words and words hold movement. A book marked by inexhaustible passages, this exquisite English language translation of Québécoise poet Chantal
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- [Universal Bureau of Copyrights by Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bertrand-laverdure/universal-bureau-of-copyrights-by-bertrand-laverdure-translated-by-oana-avasilichioaei/) - Finalist for the 2015 ReLit Novel Award From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights, a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the copyrights for all things on Earth, including real and fictional characters. Through this
- [Huckleberry Finn by Martí Sales, translated by Elisabet Ràfols and Ona Bantjes-Ràfols](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/elisabet-rafols/huckleberry-finn-by-marti-sales-translated-by-elisabet-rafols/) - Enter the world as seen through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn—a weary and defeated landscape, but one of inherent hope, where reinvention is possible through the seminal power of words, those elemental beings that are capable of creating realities all their own. There’s sex, there’s drugs, and there’s rock’n’roll—and all the while, there’s a young
- [A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu, translated by Nathanaël](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/chantal-neveu/a-spectacular-influence-by-chantal-neveu-translated-by-nathanael/) - Drawing from philosophy (including Pre-Socratic materialists, Nietzsche, and Spinoza), A Spectacular Influence by Chantal Neveu offers readers an exercise in extreme perception. With clear lines and minimalist language, A Spectacular Influence solicits movement in melancholy as a way of celebrating the intimate role that each of us plays in the human collective experience. This is
- [My Dinosaur by François Turcot, translated by Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/my-dinosaur-by-francois-turcot-trans-from-french-by-erin-moure/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection There's a real fascination with fathers in Québécoise literature, and this recurring persona populates fiction, films, and the stories people tell of their families and themselves. Thus, it's not surprising that, as he witnessed his own father's growing frailty, François Turcot-one of Quebec's most celebrated young literary
- [Testament by Vickie Gendreau, translated by Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/aimee-wall/testament-by-vickie-gendreau-translated-by-aimee-wall/) - Quill and Quire Fall 2016 Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Fiction Selection I'm at Kingdom, corner of Saint-Laurent and Sainte-Catherine. Mindy and Trevor examine my body with their sticky hands. Nikky is beautiful. More beautiful than me. More fluid than me. I'm always falling down. I close my eyes, I open my
- [The Greats by Sylvain Prudhomme, Translated by Jessica Moore](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/the-greats-by-sylvain-prudhomme-translated-by-jessica-moore/) - Part of the New Essential Fiction Bundle Winner of the 2015 Prix Littéraire de la Porte Dorée Winner of the 2014 Prix Georges Brassens Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Sylvain Prudhomme re-imagines the famous ’70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist. After learning of the death of the singer,
- [Sports and Pastimes by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard, Translated by Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/sports-and-pastimes-by-jean-philippe-baril-guerard-translated-by-aimee-wall/) - Part of the New Essential Fiction Bundle Inspired by Erik Satie’s work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the first novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard to appear in English. Translated by Aimee Wall, this fast-paced story follows the daily life, at once empty and overloaded, of a group
- [The Year of My Disappearance by Carole David, Translated by Donald Winkler](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/the-year-of-my-disappearance-by-carole-david-translated-by-donald-winkler/) - Winner of the 2016 Prix des Libraires Winner of the 2016 Quebecor Prize for the Trois-Rivières Poetry Festival Carole David’s The Year of My Disappearance is a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman’s psyche. From Governor General’s Award winning translator, Donald Winkler, into English, comes this pitiless assault on the author’s own torments
- [Mama's Boy by David Goudreault, Translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-goudreault/mamas-boy-by-david-goudreault-translated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix litteraire Archambault My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn’t take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases. Written with gritty humour in the
- [The Faerie Devouring by Catherine Lalonde, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/catherine-lalonde/the-faerie-devouring-by-catherine-lalonde-translated-by-oana-avasilichioaei/) - Winner of the 2019 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards: La dévoration des fées by Catherine Lalonde (French Language Category) Winner of the 2018 Prix Alain-Grandbois de l'Academie des lettres due Quebec Finalist for the 2018 Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal A modern-day fable and feminist bildungsroman, The Faerie
- [Worst Case, We Get Married by Sophie Bienvenu, Translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/worst-case-we-get-married-by-sophie-bienvenu-tanslated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Aicha lives with her mother in Montreal’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She’s only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who
- [Mama’s Boy Behind Bars by David Goudreault, Translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-goudreault/mamas-boy-behind-bars-by-david-goudreault-translated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - Now I’ve killed another person. I’m a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it’s a good start. I’m still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It’s well documented. Mama’s Boy Behind Bars is the second book in David
- [Drama Queens by Vickie Gendreau, Translated by Aimee Wall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/aimee-wall/drama-queens-by-vickie-gendreau-translated-by-aimee-wall/) - At the book fair in Rimouski, a woman picked up my first book to read the back cover. She put it back down, avoiding my eyes. It’s heavy, cancer and death and all that. I wish books were more interactive. Like video game controllers. They could vibrate at the end of each chapter. But that’s
- [Spawn by Marie-Andrée Gill, Translated by Kristen Renee Miller](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/spawn-by-marie-andree-gill-translated-by-kristen-renee-miller/) - Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill’s poems ask how one can reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers. The poet’s young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to
- [This Radiant Life by Chantal Neveu, Translated by Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/chantal-neveu/this-radiant-life-by-chantal-neveu-translated-by-erin-moure/) - In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution, and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable of holding life and death, solidarity, and love. Renewal. Breathing. In its brevity and persistence, This Radiant
- [Mama's Boy Game Over by David Goudreault, Translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-goudreault/mamas-boy-game-over-by-david-goudreault-translated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - At the end of this story I’m going to kill myself. And then die. That’s the way it is. All good things must come to an end, including me. Mama’s Boy Game Over is the third and final book in David Goudreault’s bleakly comic bestselling Mama’s Boy trilogy. Mama’s Boy has been transferred from prison
- [Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann, Translated by Caroline Waight](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/anne-cathrine-bomann/agatha-by-anne-cathrine-bomann-translated-by-caroline-waight/) - Set in 1940s Paris, this bittersweet international bestselling debut novel has sold in over twenty-three territories. A psychiatrist is counting down toward his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life
- [The Neptune Room by Bertrand Laverdure, Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bertrand-laverdure/the-neptune-room-by-bertrand-laverdure-translated-by-oana-avasilichioaei/) - Sandrine’s father is dead, and her mother has vanished into her grief. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways (and seemingly without anyone noticing). A transformational tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics that surround it,
- [The Union of Synchronized Swimmers by Cristina Sandu, Translated by Cristina Sandu](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/the-union-of-synchronized-swimmers-by-cristina-sandu-translated-by-cristina-sandu/) - It's summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls begin a journey to the Olympics. But will they return? In a stateless place, on the wrong side of a river separating East from West, six girls meet each day to swim. At first, they play, splashing each other and floating languidly on the water's surface.
- [VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/literature-in-translation/versschmuggel-reversible/) - The poetry translation project VERSschmuggel / reVERSible is a symbiotic lyrical laboratory for materiality, conceptual intensity, and background noise hosted by Haus für Poesie in Berlin. In recognition of Canada’s role as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the focus of 2020’s VERSschmuggel project was on poetry from Canada. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, six German poets
- [Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated by Marina Allemano](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/hunger-heart-by-karen-fastrup-translated-by-marina-allemano/) - A few days ago, Karen was a writer and translator immersed in Copenhagen’s creative scene, madly in love with her partner. Now she’s a patient in a psychiatric facility. Hunger Heart is a sensual, profound work of autofiction about love, relationships, mental illness, and recovery by one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary writers. Fastrup immerses us
- [As the Andes Disappeared by Caroline Dawson, translated by Anita Anand](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/anita-anand/as-the-andes-disappeared-by-caroline-dawson-translated-by-anita-anand/) - Caroline is seven years old when her family flees Pinochet’s regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won’t find them on the plane but wakes to find a new doll at her side, her mother preserving the holiday even amidst persecution and turmoil. This symbol of care is repeated throughout
- [The Singularity by Balsam Karam, translated by Saskia Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/balsam-karam/the-singularity-by-balsam-karam-translated-by-saskia-vogel/) - Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden’s most exciting contemporary novelists. In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter’s name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The mother searches
- [Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann, Translated by Caroline Waight](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/anne-cathrine-bomann/blue-notes-by-anne-cathrine-bomann-translated-by-caroline-waight/) - How much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary medical thriller about loss, empathy, science, Big Pharma, and societal norms. A Danish university research group is finishing its study of a new medicine, Callocain: the world’s first pill
- [Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/big-shadow-by-marta-balcewicz/) - In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herself—especially as the artist she wants to be. There is little help around her. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed with a cultish belief in a coming "Big
- [I Can Say Interpellation by Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/i-can-say-interpellation-by-stephen-cain/) - Watch the Book*hug Author Interview Watch the Book Launch and Reading Reviews "Reflecting on the absurdity of our world in simple children’s rhymes and tales, this collection charmed me. Cain has the delightful way of spinning each tale to suit his purpose and the results are often as hilarious as they are uncomfortably recognizable." —Nico
- [False Friends by Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/false-friends-by-stephen-cain/) - False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term “false friends”—two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humourous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore
- [No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol by Liz Worth](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/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 over four decades later, a, A Novel continues to be an essential documentation of Warhol's seminal Factory scene. And though the book offers a pop art snapshot of 1960s Manhattan that only Warhol could
- [Conflict by Christine McNair](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/christine-mcnair/conflict-by-christine-mcnair/) - Conflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems that breaks down remembrance into abandoned historic markers, jet fuel, keening, or teeth. What you are given (this is a gift) is an insistent refusal to silence or shift. In exchange, the reader faces the impossibility of erasure and
- [Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/sludge-utopia-by-catherine-fatima/) - In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia is an autofictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring
- [Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language, Edited by Eufemia Fantetti, Leonarda Carranza, and Ayelet Tsabari](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/tongues-on-longing-and-belonging-through-language/) - In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white,
- [Dream Rooms by River Halen](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/dream-rooms-by-river-halen/) - Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of
- [Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/daniel-sarah-karasik/plenitude-by-daniel-sarah-karasik/) - A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and
- [Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/michael-v-smith/queers-like-me-by-michael-v-smith/) - Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics,
- [Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World by Hana Shafi](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/art/small-broke-and-kind-of-dirty-affirmations-for-the-real-world-by-hana-shafi/) - Audiobook Sample Let’s get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You’re not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but
- [You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/you-are-eating-an-orange-you-are-naked-by-sheung-king/) - Audiobook Sample A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions
- [The Legend of Baraffo by Moez Surani](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/the-legend-of-baraffo-by-moez-surani/) - In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and another building is set ablaze, tensions mount among the citizens and Mazzu considers a risky solution. Within an extraordinary world, this
- [Moments Cafe #8: Prose of the Trans-Canada by derek beaulieu](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/moments-cafe-8-prose-of-the-trans-canada-by-derek-beaulieu/) - derek beaulieu’s prodigious Prose of the Trans-Canada responds to Cendrars’ legacy in a 16" x 52" visual poem. When all 150 copies of this limited edition are placed end-to-end, the resultant length is the same as the symbol of Calgarian Modernity, the Calgary Tower. A towering moment in beaulieu’s on-going exploration of letraset as a
- [Polyamorous Love Song by Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/polyamorous-love-song-fiction-by-jacob-wren/) - Audiobook Sample: Finalist for the 2015 ReLit Novel Award Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2014 From interdisciplinary writer and performer Jacob Wren comes Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with
- [The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature and Being by Johanna Skibsrud](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/the-nothing-that-is-essays-on-art-literature-and-being-by-johanna-skibsrud/) - Rather than making “something” out of “nothing,” what follows is an endeavour to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both yet to be imagined. In The Nothing That Is, Johanna Skibsrud gathers essays about the very concept of “nothing.” Addressing a broad range of topics—including false atrocity tales,
- [Bystander by Mike Steeves](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/bystander-by-mike-steeves/) - Audiobook Sample: "I have never been faced with a moral crisis, let alone a matter of life or death." Peter Simons doesn’t spend much time at home in his apartment. Thanks to his job at a multinational company, he is often flying around the world, enjoying a life of luxurious solitude in five-star hotels. So
- [Vox Humana by Adebe DeRango-Adem](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/adebe-derango-adem/vox-humana-by-adebe-derango-adem/) - Vox Humana (Latin for "human voice") is driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world that actively resists the participation of some voices over others. In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the different ways a body can assert, recount, proclaim, thus
- [Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/umbilical-cord-by-hasan-namir/) - Audiobook Sample: Dear Child Once upon a time Your baba fell in love with your dad We got married and dreamt of having a baby A roller coaster of emotions and feelings We were always hopeful Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood, and hope. These warm,
- [Begin by Telling by Meg Remy](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/begin-by-telling-by-meg-remy/) - Never forget / to connect the dots / This book is an attempt to connect a couple. In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy
- [Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty by Bahar Orang](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/where-things-touch-a-meditation-on-beauty-by-bahar-orang/) - Audiobook Sample: To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch. Part lyric essay,
- [Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being by Amy Fung](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/amy-fung/before-i-was-a-critic-i-was-a-human-being-by-amy-fung/) - Audio Book Sample: Longlisted for The Believer Book Award: Nonfiction In that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn't think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspectives, but exclude their physical bodies from entering and experiencing. In that moment,
- [Dear Current Occupant by Chelene Knight](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/dear-current-occupant-by-chelene-knight/) - Audiobook Sample: Winner the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award Longlisted for the 2019 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature Chelene Knight Selected by David Chariandy for Writers' Trust of Canada's Rising Star Program Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of
- [The Benjamin Sonnets by Clint Burnham](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/clint-burnham/benjamin-sonnets-by-clint-burnham/) - Praise for The Benjamin Sonnets: "I once sat for about 120 minutes in a film by Mizoguchi in Japanese without subtitles; after 15 minutes every word had a meaning, the entire dialog seemed to be in a patois composed from German, Spanish, French, Greek and English components. I understood it, but its light, ironic nonsense
- [Deep Salt Water by Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/deep-salt-water-by-marianne-apostolides/) - Audiobook Sample: Congratulations to Marianne Apostolides, winner of the 2017 KM Hunter Artist Award for Literature! Deep Salt Water is a stirring memoir about loss and abortion, expressed through the layering of imagery from the ocean. In detail at once sensual and sophisticated, Apostolides unfurls the emotional experience of a love affair and unwanted pregnancy, the
- [Blank: Essays and Interviews by M. NourbeSe Philip](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/blank-interviews-essays-by-m-nourbese-philip/) - Audiobook Sample: Recipient of the $50,000 2020 PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature Bla_K is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada’s most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the
- [Involuntary Bliss by Devon Code](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/involuntary-bliss-by-devon-code/) - Audiobook Sample: Quill and Quire Fall 2016 Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Fiction Selection Even in death, he said, the novella’s power would bind us together, all of us who had read it, appealing as it did equally to our emotions and our intellects. A bond between three friends forms over a
- [Giving Up by Mike Steeves](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/audiobooks/giving-up-by-mike-steeves/) - Listen to a Sample: Finalist for the 2015 Concordia University First Book Award National Post "NP99" Best Book of 2015 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Fiction Selection At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of
- [A by André Alexis](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/andre-alexis/a-fiction-by-andre-alexis/) - Audiobook Sample: André Alexis has described his fictional terrain as “the shifting ground between the imagined life and the life that you live in from day to day.” There’s no better representation of this than the compelling narrative in A, where Alexander Baddeley, a Toronto book reviewer, is obsessed with the work of the elusive
- [Dissonance Engine by David Dowker](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-dowker/dissonance-engine-by-david-dowker/) - Dissonance Engine is an exploration of time, cognition and loss; the intersection of dream and alternate reality amidst myriad systems of control. The collection probes these themes through a multitude of forms including prose poems, palindromes, fictional journal entries, a faux manifesto, and collage poems. A literary Necker cube, the structure of this multilayered work
- [The Videofag Book, Edited by William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/drama-books/the-videofag-book-edited-by-william-ellis-jordan-tannahill/) - Longlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for counterculture in the city, playing host to a litany of
- [Catalogue d'oiseaux by Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/aaron-tucker/catalogue-doiseaux-by-aaron-tucker/) - Catalogue d’oiseaux recounts a year in the life of a couple separated by distance, carefully documenting time spent together and apart. When reunited, they embark on travels across the globe—from Toronto to Berlin, Porto to the Yukon. This expansive poem moves sensually through small, intimate spaces and the larger world alike. Traced through art, architecture,
- [Body of Text by Michael V. Smith and David Ellingsen](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-ellingsen/body-of-text-by-michael-v-smith-and-david-ellingsen/) - Reviews "I’m not lingering over a turn of phrase here, but the fact of the book, the flipping through it, the returning to it, the showing it around, and finally, the wrapping my head around it, enjoying the pleasure of it, the tease of it, the let’s-see-if-we-can-get-away-with-this of it, makes me think about the queerness
- [Q & A by Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/adrienne-gruber/q-a-by-adrienne-gruber/) - Adrienne Gruber’s third full poetry collection, Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque
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- [BafterC Vol 8 No 1 Guest edited by Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/bafterc/bafterc-vol-8-no-1-guest-edited-by-jess-taylor/) - Guest edited by Jess Taylor, this NEW MOTION ISSUE of BafterC (with bold new design!) contains work by Spencer Gordon, Chad Campbell, Phoebe Wang, Dominique Bernier-Cormier, Mat Laporte, Jessie Jones, Jesse Eckerlin, JC Bouchard, Laura Clarke, Ben Gallagher, dalton derkson, E. Martin Nolan, Ben Ladouceur, Jacqueline Valencia, a.m. kozak, Andy Verboom, and Matthew Walsh. 100
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- [Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/alessandra-naccarato/imminent-domains-reckoning-with-the-anthropocene-by-alessandra-naccarato/) - Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. Using research, lyric prose, and first-hand experiences, Alessandra Naccarato addresses fundamental questions about our modern relationship to nature amidst depictions of landscapes undergoing dramatic transformation. We trace the veins of harm, memory and
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- [Disquieting: Essays on Silence by Cynthia Cruz](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/cynthia-cruz/disquieting-essays-on-silence-by-cynthia-cruz/) - How do our bodies speak for us when words don’t suffice? How can we make ourselves understood when what we have to say is inarticulable? In Disquieting, Cynthia Cruz tarries with others who have provided examples of how to “turn away,” or reject the ideologies of contemporary neoliberal culture. These essays inhabit connections between silence,
- [Where, the Mile End by Julie Morrissy](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/where-the-mile-end-by-julie-morrissy/) - Where, the Mile End, Irish poet Julie Morrissy’s debut collection, embodies an energetic lyricism that whips through Europe and North America with humour, curiosity and a distinct edginess. Morrissy’s lines track emotional, physical, and geographical change, as she intimately links the vitality of two continents: the snow, the streets, the sensual memories. Where, the Mile
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- [Poems by Gerard Legro by Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro, edited with an introduction by Alessandro Porco](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/alessandro-porco/poems-by-gerard-legro-by-jerrold-levy-and-richard-negro-edited-with-an-introduction-by-alessandro-porco/) - In the spring and summer of 1949, Jerrold Levy and Richard Negro—two teenage pranksters with the right mix of bad attitude and artistic ingenuity—composed, circulated, and performed a collection of poems on the campus of Black Mountain College, an experimental school located just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Now, BookThug is bringing this previously unpublished work
- [Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal by David Dowker & Christine Stewart](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/christine-stewart/virtualis-topologies-of-the-unreal-by-david-dowker-christine-stewart/) - Finalist for the 2014 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, David Dowker and Christine Stewart have created a series of
- [Tuft by Kim Minkus](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/tuft-by-kim-minkus/) - Tuft: "A bunch (natural or artificial) of small things, usually soft and flexible, ...fixed or attached at the base." — OED With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we "observe the green elite" and "iceplants bloom in the monotony of paved paths." We tangle and climb into language
- [The Small Nouns Crying Faith](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/the-small-nouns-crying-faith/) - The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is "raw" and the last word is "blurtip." Between these, many nouns cry faith within a hook-less framework that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as "the memoir," "genealogy" and "the shepherd's calendar." With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs,
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- [fur(l) parachute by Shannon Maguire](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/furl-parachute-by-shannon-maguire/) - Finalist for the 2014 Goldie Awards: Poetry Category fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem “Wulf and Eadwacer.” Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth-century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an example of a woman’s lament, or even a
- [Chris Eaton, a Biography by Chris Eaton](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/chris-eaton/chris-eaton-a-biography-by-chris-eaton/) - The National Post Top Book of 2013 Toronto Star Top Book of 2013 Chris Eaton, a Biography is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have
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- [The Counting House by Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/the-counting-house-poetry-by-sandra-ridley/) - Finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award Akin to a bookkeeper’s accounting of what’s given and taken in a fraught, uncertain exchange, The Counting House goes on to record the pageantry and pedantry of courtly affection gone awry. Symbols and origins of traditional rhymes involving kings and queens serve as inventory, alongside elements of Michel
- [bp: beginnings by bpNichol, edited by Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bpnichol/bp-beginnings-poetry-by-bpnichol/) - bpNichol (1944–1988) has attained iconic status in Canadian literature in recent years, particularly through his lifelong poem The Martyrology and his work in visual and sound poetry. Numerous early "fugitive" sequences of Nichol's are often referred to in critical studies, but are long out of print and only available in library special collections or in
- [Here In There by Angela Carr](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/angela-carr/here-in-there-poetry-by-angela-carr/) - Finalist for the 2014 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Here in There, Angela Carr’s third book of poetry, is a lyrical petition to the human faculty of attention. In constant motion, the poems locate unusual instances of connection. They ask, do we give or pay attention? And what do we attend to? How do we
- [THESEUS: A Collaboration bpNichol and Wayne Clifford](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bpnichol/theseus-a-collaboration-bpnichol-and-wayne-clifford/) - The value of Theseus is as much about its pedigree as the writing itself. The collaboration for this new book began in the autumn of 1966. bpNichol and Wayne Clifford had worked together early in their literary careers; in fact, Clifford had been the editor of Nichol's first trade book, published with Coach House Press.
- [THOU by Aisha Sasha John](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/aisha-sasha-john/thou-poetry-by-aisha-sasha-john/) - Finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2015 ReLit Poetry Award Following the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU—a powerful collection of two long, narrative poems, that explore the social space that exists between the self and others. Using the language that
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- [a thin line between by Wanda Praamsma](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/a-thin-line-between-by-wanda-praamsma/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2014 Fall Poetry Selection In what can be described as a verse-novel for its lyricism and rhythmic structure, Wanda Praamsma crafts a story that transcends geographic boundaries and time periods, by weaving together lives from her own family's past, including her poet-grandfather and sculptor-uncle. Subtle in its life lessons, a thin
- [Sophrosyne by Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/sophrosyne-by-marianne-apostolides/) - 49th Shelf Most-Anticipated 2014 Fall Fiction Preview Selection Because fear can transform into confidence, recklessness, the kind of power you can't imagine until you're inside it. And then, once you've felt it, you can't feel alive when it's gone. Sophrosyne. You understood this feeling. I know you did, though you never said it. I saw
- [Metaphysical Licks by Gregoire Pam Dick](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/metaphysical-licks-by-gregoire-pam-dick/) - A Best Book of 2014 as selected by The Volta Metaphysical Licks, a hybrid prose-poem/novella riffing on the lives and works of Austrian poet Georg Trakl and his sister, Grete, is the restless new work by writer and translator Gregoire Pam Dick [a.k.a. Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al., author of Delinquent (Futurepoem,
- [Leak by Kate Hargreaves](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/leak-by-kate-hargreaves/) - Quill and Quire 2014 Fall Poetry Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2014 Fall Poetry Selection Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose
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- [Afterletters by R. Kolewe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/afterletters-by-r-kolewe/) - Lovers wrote letters. Letters crossed absence, longing, joy, passion, loss and heartbreak. Sometimes letters were answered. Sometimes not. And sometimes not for years, but then— In 1948, in the exhausted aftermath of WWII, the poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann met in Vienna. They began a difficult and intense but intermittent relationship which lasted until
- [Their Biography: an organism of relationships by kevin mcpherson eckhoff](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/their-biography-an-organism-of-relationships-by-kevin-mcpherson-eckhoff/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Would it be possible to compose a book that appears to be “about” its author, but is indirectly about something else, like identity or relationships or language? Maybe a book not written by a hero... but by many? This was the challenge taken up by kevin mcpherson
- [the pet radish, shrunken by Pearl Pirie](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/the-pet-radish-shrunken-by-pearl-pirie/) - Winner of the 2016 Archibald Lampman Award 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection In this post-lyrical era, poems can be stories, or they can just as easily be exuberant laughter set to words, an experiment in language, or an incidental collation of plays on a Scrabble board. the pet radish, shrunken, the third
- [A More Perfect [ by Jimmy McInnes](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/a-more-perfect-by-jimmy-mcinnes/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Iconic political speeches contain some of the best remembered and most repeated passages in contemporary English language. Especially in the United States of America, what child doesn’t know Abraham Lincoln’s “fourscore and seven years ago...” or Roosevelt’s “the only thing we have to fear...”? Taking as its
- [Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play by Jake Kennedy](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/merz-structure-no-2-burnt-by-children-at-play-by-jake-kennedy/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play is comprised of a number of individual poems—from love lyrics to conceptual elegies, from prompts for improvised performance poems to long poems that meditate on grief. The overarching theme of the book is loss. In 1981 Jake Kennedy
- [Book of Knots by Jay Gamble](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jay-gamble/book-of-knots-by-jay-gamble/) - As Auden famously said, “poetry does nothing.” It is a genre of failure, and as such poetry is rich with failure. Book of Knots, a new book-length long poem by Canadian poet and academic Jay Gamble, seeks to engage with life’s failure, by building ‘a nothing’ out of something, where formal innovation, including exhaustive “single
- [Endangered Hydrocarbons by Lesley Battler](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/endangered-hydrocarbons-by-lesley-battler/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Poetry Selection Fracking—tar-sand runoff—dirty oil extraction. This is the language of our oil-addicted 21st-century society: incredibly invasive, blatant in its purpose, and richly embedded in mythological and archetypal symbolism. The ultimate goal of the industry: To core the underworld. Endangered Hydrocarbons, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poetry, shows
- [Alice in Plunderland by Steve McCaffery, illustrated by Clelia Scala](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/alice-in-plunderland-by-steve-mccaffery-with-illustrations-by-clelia-scala/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2015 Fiction Selection It's been 150 years since Alice first entered Wonderland in Lewis Carroll's beloved classic book. My, how times have changed! Now, from the multi-award-winning poet and scholar Steve McCaffery comes Alice in Plunderland, a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books that will forever change the way readers
- [Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina by Shannon Maguire](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/myrmurs-an-exploded-sestina-by-shannon-maguire/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection Myrmurs is an innovative variant of the sestina form (a medieval mechanism of desire that spirals around six end words). Connecting medieval textuality to contemporary politics and poetics, this poem explores living systems: cities and languages as self-organizing entities; ants; interspecies entanglements; strange attachments; neocolonialism and how
- [Lorcation by Brian Dedora, Spanish translation by Martín Rodríguez-Gaona](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/brian-dedora/lorcation-by-brian-dedora-spanish-translation-by-martin-rodriguez-gaona/) - 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 Garcia Lorca, of the basic elements in common between the Spanish writer's life and his own, and of the tragic grandeur
- [Grand Menteur by Jean Marc Ah-Sen](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/grand-menteur-by-jean-marc-ah-sen/) - Globe and Mail Best 100 Book of 2015 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection 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: Serge, the Grand Menteur.
- [The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/the-plotline-bomber-of-innisfree-by-josh-massey/) - Quill and Quire 2015 Fall Fiction Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Fiction Selection Set in the near future in the mountainous and fielded cusp between BC and Alberta, The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree by Josh Massey is the story of Jeffery Inkster, an ex-hipster-turned elk farmer. Inkster, whose goal is to live
- [The Relativistic Empire by Samuel Andreyev](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/the-relativistic-empire-by-samuel-andreyev/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection 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
- [Waiting Room by Jennifer Zilm](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jennifer-zilm/waiting-room-by-jennifer-zilm/) - CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection Take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featuring a mélange of styles and forms (including sonnets, erasures, unsent emails, footnotes, session notes, CVs, tweets, and other disparate source materials),
- [Job Shadowing by Malcolm Sutton](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/job-shadowing-by-malcolm-sutton/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Fiction Selection Big Other's Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2016 Selection My slow adaptation is to her a sign of my being ‘outside life.’ An unemployed man, losing his ability to imagine a future self, disappears into the shadow world of an ambitious millennial. His wife, an idealistic
- [Conjugation by Phil Hall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/phil-hall/conjugation-by-phil-hall/) - CBC Books Best Books of 2016 Selection Quill and Quire Spring 2016 Preview Selection CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection I am sitting outside at dawn on Otty Lake, where I live, in the woods. The light is coming over the trees, and each morning the
- [Buoyancy Control by Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/adrienne-gruber/buoyancy-control-by-adrienne-gruber/) - CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Spring 2016 Poetry Selection Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, presents a fascinating culmination of land and sea, mind and body, in linguistic form. Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water (as well as the creatures that
- [Bridge Retakes by Angela Lopes](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/angela-lopes/bridge-retakes-by-angela-lopes/) - Bridge Retakes, the debut novel by Angela Lopes, is a whirlwind millennial tale of love and family and the distances that people will (or won’t) go to secure what they want. A Bahian man and a Brazilian-Canadian woman meet on an online dating site. They come from very different worlds—geographically, economically, religiously—and yet, their connection
- [To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/to-love-the-coming-end-by-leanne-dunic/) - In To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and ‘the curse of 11’ reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, this debut from Leanne Dunic captures what it’s like to be united while simultaneously separated
- [The Unpublished City, Volume I, Edited by Dionne Brand](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/the-unpublished-city-curated-by-dionne-brand/) - Shortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents: Diana Biacora David Bradford Nicole Chin Simone Dalton Dalton Derkson Doyali Islam Laboni Islam Ian Kamau Adnan Khan Shoilee Khan Canisia Lubrin Sofia Mostaghimi Nadia Ragbar Rudrapriya Rathore Sanchari Sur Katheryn Wabegijig Phoebe Wang
- [Precious Energy by Shannon Bramer](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/precious-energy-by-shannon-bramer/) - Precious Energy, the fourth collection of poetry from Hamilton-born poet and playwright Shannon Bramer, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled child that remains within us all even as we grow up and into whatever person we keep trying to become. Featuring
- [Kith by Divya Victor](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/divya-victor/kith-by-divya-victor/) - kith [noun] one’s friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations. In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what ‘kith’ might mean outside of the national boundaries of those people belonging to the Indian and Southeast Asian diasporas. Through an engagement with the effects of
- [Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp by Aaron Tucker](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/irresponsible-mediums-the-chess-games-of-marcel-duchamp-by-aaron-tucker/) - With an Introduction by Jennifer Shahade In 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it generated a musical note until the game was transformed into a symphony. Inspired by this performance, Irresponsible Mediums—poet and academic Aaron
- [If Pressed by Andrew McEwan](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/if-pressed-by-andrew-mcewan/) - If Pressed—the second collection of poetry from Andrew McEwan—explores forms of pressurized and pressurizing language as a means to shed light on the depressions we live among. Overlapping language of fear and speculation gain momentum in these poems, where layers of atmospheric and emotional lexicons—ranging from descriptions of the mid-2000s financial crisis and subsequent recession,
- [This Will Be Good by Mallory Tater](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/this-will-be-good-by-mallory-tater/) - Mallory Tater’s This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships. These poems deftly bear witness to the performance of femininity and gender construction to reveal the
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- [The Unpublished City, Volume II, Edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/the-unpublished-city-volume-ii-edited-by-phoebe-wang-canisia-lubrin-dionne-brand/) - Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a different, more multifarious wayfinding. In this second volume of The Unpublished City, imagination is the means by which these writers find detours, shortcuts and convergences. Even as they are inventing and
- [The Ritualites by Michael Nardone](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/the-ritualites-by-michael-nardone/) - The Ritualites is Michael Nardone’s book-length poem–the first in a series of planned works–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 Gulf of California—the book documents the poet’s listening amid our public exchanges, mediated ambiances, and itinerant intimacies. The Ritualites is
- [Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, co-edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, & Erin Wunker](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/refuse-canlit-in-ruins-edited-by-hannah-mcgregor-julie-rak-erin-wunker/) - CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful
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- [Branches by Mark Truscott](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/branches-by-mark-truscott/) - Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving between leaves is actually behind them and much larger. The sound of the vacuum cleaner in the next room is noise
- [Nought by Julie Joosten](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/nought-by-julie-anne-joosten/) - Nought, a new collection of poetry from Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Julie Joosten, explores the intersections of body, identity, and love. These poems, in all their passions, inhabit the unfastened “and” of capacious loves and allegiances, refusing to choose between them; in Nought, thought comes alive through the materiality of body and experience, neurology
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- [The Odyssey by Ken Hunt](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/ken-hunt/the-odyssey-by-ken-hunt/) - In July 1969, humans embarked on an epic journey to land on the moon. Now, fifty years later, Ken Hunt utilizes NASA’s Apollo 11 voice transcription document, a chronicle of the first six days of that mission, to create The Odyssey, an erasure poem of star charts carved from the technical jargon and offhand remarks
- [Je Nathanaël by Nathanaël](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/je-nathanael-by-nathanael-with-an-afterword-by-elena-basile-and-a-postface-by-the-author/) - New edition. With an Afterword by Elena Basile, and a Postface by the author. Je Nathanaël is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body In this new and updated edition of Je Nathanaël, first published by BookThug in 2006, Nathanaël
- [Hope Matters by Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/hope-matters-by-lee-maracle-columpa-bobb-and-tania-carter/) - Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. The wide-ranging poems in Hope Matters focus on the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonial beginnings to
- [Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real by Moez Surani](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/are-the-rivers-in-your-poems-real-by-moez-surani/) - Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of sentimentality, and the insidious freight of abstraction, these poems embody the necessity for the critical, the communal, the real. Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real uses conceptual critiques of public discourse and experimental social cartographies, as well as lyrics of intimacy, to defy prescribed ways
- [Write Across Canada: An Anthology of Emerging Writers Curated by Joseph Kertes and Geoffrey Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/write-across-canada-an-anthology-of-emerging-writers-curated-by-joseph-kertes-and-geoffrey-taylor/) - The stories and poems gathered in Write Across Canada showcase a mere sampling of emerging writers working in Canada today. Selected by their mentors working in creative writing programs from British Columbia to Newfoundland, these are fresh voices well on their way to becoming seasoned artists. Featuring work by: Colin Buchanan Amy Donovan David Dupont
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- [Try Not to Get Too Attached by Robin Richardson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/art/try-not-to-get-too-attached-by-robin-richardson/) - Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson’s intuitive works—inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts—are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and
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- [Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/beatriz-hausner/beloved-revolutionary-sweetheart-by-beatriz-hausner/) - Juxtaposing the diction of surrealism with Ovid, Callimachus, and popular music—punk and new wave—the poems in Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart concern themselves with various aspects of Eros. From wistful romance to explicit sex, these poems are inspired by the troubadour poets of Provence and Italy, and invoke such historical figures as the Byzantine Empress Theodora and
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- [Propositions and Prayers by Lise Downe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lise-downe/propositions-and-prayers-by-lise-downe/) - Propositions and Prayers, Lise Downe’s first book of poetry in nine years, is a collection in two parts: “Propositions” is a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression of images and voices to convey an urgency through degrees of incoherence; “Prayers” explores living and language as acts of devotion. These poems blur the boundaries
- [Trapsongs: Three Plays by Shannon Bramer](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/drama-books/trapsongs-three-plays-by-shannon-bramer/) - With an Introduction by Sara Tilley. From playwright and poet Shannon Bramer comes Trapsongs, a collection of three dark comedies that navigate the realm of the surreal and absurd. In Monarita, an intimate friendship between Mona, a frazzled new mother, and Rita, her beloved, estranged friend, is explored. Their interaction is a dance—part ballet, part
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- [BRICKBRICKBRICK by Mark Laliberte](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/mark-laliberte/brickbrickbrick-by-mark-laliberte/) - BRICKBRICKBRICK is background reading brought to the forefront. With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of “ poetics." Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around—but never quite steps into—the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit. The hybrid “texts” presented in this volume
- [Agony by Steven Zultanski](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/agony-by-steven-zultanski/) - Agony is the first in a trilogy of long confessional poems. It uses semi-rigorous mathematical and logical constraints to view the author's life and body, telescopically, as little bits of time and space. Everything written here is as true as possible—that is to say, pretty true. The poem writes autobiography as a refutation of autobiography,
- [Codes of Public Sleep by Camille Martin](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/camille-martin/codes-of-public-sleep-by-camille-martin/) - Camille Martin is a poet, collage artist, and literary critic who recently escaped the ruins of New Orleans to settle in her new home of Toronto. She is the author of four shorter collections of poetry: fabled hue (2005), sesame kiosk (2001), rogue embryo (1999), and magnus loop (1999). Her work has appeared widely throughout
- [Her absence, this wanderer by Syd Zolf](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/her-absence-this-wanderer-by-syd-zolf/) - Syd (formerly Rachel) Zolf’s first book of poetry explores post-Holocaust Jewish identity and queer desire through a complex, multilayered textuality, seamlessly blending the erotic with the linguistic. As R.M. Vaughan noted in a 2000 review, “Zolf writes about the impossible, about events that defy poetry, in the only way possible–by making the unspeakable the silent,
- [MASQUE by Syd Zolf](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/masque-by-syd-zolf/) - A polyphonic assemblage of fragments, MASQUE engages media constructs and the flesh in methodically built layers painstakingly stripped away. A cast of characters interrogates Author, Performer and Audience—public and private personae revealing traces of veiled knowledge. The narrative lines coil inward: tautening. Just when it seems too much, the traces perform a type of reparation:
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- [Mama's Boy Trilogy by David Goudreault, Translated by JC Sutcliffe](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-goudreault/mamas-boy-trilogy-by-david-goudreault-translated-by-jc-sutcliffe/) - Mama’s Boy: Winner of the 2016 Grand Prix litteraire Archambault My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn’t take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases. Written with gritty humour
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- [(made) by Cara Benson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/cara-benson/made-by-cara-benson/) - Watch the BookThug Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Praise for (made): "In this book illuminated with language, these prose poems lyrically scrutinize the everyday in a pileup of evidence. Isolated in cars on the interstate, people come together to crash or pile into nightcourt, assigning blame, relations askew in this atomizing economy
- [declining america by Rob Budde](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/declining-america-by-rob-budde/) - Reviews: "Budde offers a bracing outward orientation remote from 'the weariness, the fever, and the fret' of the Keatsian lyric ego." —Andre Furlani for Canadian Literature "For good or ill, the aphasic cacophony Budde orchestrates captures well our political actualities." —Andre Furlani for Canadian Literature "The concept of “America” as a transgressor is not new, but Budde
- [New Essential Fiction Bundle](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/new-essential-fiction-bundle/) - The Greats by Sylvain Prudhomme, Translated by Jessica Moore Winner of the 2015 Prix Littéraire de la Porte Dorée Winner of the 2014 Prix Georges Brassens Guinea-Bissau, 2012. Sylvain Prudhomme re-imagines the famous ’70s music group Super Mama Djombo, as seen through the eyes of Couto, the laconic guitarist. After learning of the death of
- [Form of Forms by Mark Goldstein](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/mark-goldstein/form-of-forms-by-mark-goldstein/) - Watch the Author Interview: Praise for Mark Goldstein: "Things turn up in Goldstein's work—the angst that is at the heart of Celan's writing for example—that comes across very different... than it would playing 'test of translation' against [Pierre] Joris. And there is a sense of the source (or Ur-) text as other in Goldstein that
- [Tracelanguage: A Shared Breath by Mark Goldstein](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/mark-goldstein/tracelanguage-by-mark-goldstein/) - Watch the Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Read Mark Goldstein's essay "The Mask of Translation" on Jacket2 to learn more about his poetics. ❧ Toronto writer Mark Goldstein is the author of three award-winning books of poetry published by BookThug: Form of Forms (2012); Tracelanguage: a Shared Breath (2010); and After Rilke
- [The Obvious Flap by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/gary-barwin/the-obvious-flap-by-gary-barwin-and-gregory-betts/) - Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Readings from The Obvious Flap: Soundtext composition from "The Obvious Flap" Reading from "The Obvious Flap" Reading from "The Obvious Flap" ❧ Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and performer. His most recent book is The Porcupinity of the Stars. Other books include anus porcupine eyebrow, Outside the Hat,
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- [TALE LIGHT New & Selected Poems 1984-2009 by Karen Mac Cormack](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/karen-mac-cormack/tale-light-new-selected-poems-1984-2009-by-karen-mac-cormack/) - Praise for Karen Mac Cormack "No one writing in North America today can match Karen Mac Cormack’s exquisite poise, the integrity of her poetic line, her command of verbal nuance, pun, and paragram." — Marjorie Perloff Born in Luanshya, Zambia, Karen Mac Cormack’s most recent book is the polybiography Implexures (Complete Edition), published by Chax
- [If Language by Gregory Betts](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/gregory-betts/if-language-by-gregory-betts/) - “If language can be nihilistic in its wit—if language can be simplistic in its fun—then this book truly uncovers all the 'abracadabras' hidden deep a million ages ago within even the most unmagical of all grammatical limitations.” —Christain Bök October 2015 | Poetry 8.75x5.25 inches | 107 pages Condition: New ISBN 9780973818164 Second printing $20.00
- [The Men by Lisa Robertson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lisa-robertson/the-men-a-lyric-book-by-lisa-robertson/) - Reviews: "Lisa Robertson (matador) side-steps irony and thus illustrates how one might undermine and long at the same time. It’s a pretty amazing li’l lean book." —Jake Kennedy for Jacket2 "The Men is a challenge, as is each of Robertson's books, but along with what she demands of the reader, she offers plenty to enjoy,
- [The Monotony of Fatal Accidents by Richard Krueger](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/the-monotony-of-fatal-accidents-by-richard-krueger/) - Watch the Author Interview: ❧ Richard Krueger grew up in Prince George, British Columbia, where he eventually received his Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Northern British Columbia in 1999. He was winner of the inaugural Barry McKinnon Chapbook Prize in 2006. The Monotony of Fatal Accidents is his first book of poetry,
- [The Occasional Troubadour by Victor Coleman](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/the-occasional-troubadour-by-victor-coleman/) - Watch the BookThug Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Book Launch and Reading Part 2: Praise for The Occasional Troubadour: “Victor Coleman is not James Joyce” —Bill Hoffer ❧ Victor Coleman is the author of numerous books of poetry, starting with the 1964 publication of From Erik Satie’s Notes to the Music, through
- [Pillage Laud by Erin Mouré](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/pillage-laud-by-erin-moure/) - Watch the Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: ❧ “Erin Mouré” is a biological product in the usual state of flux, containing organic and inorganic elements extending backward and forward into time, but tending as are all organisms toward homeostasis, in spite of entropic forces. Erin Mouré is an indicator of a social
- [The Eternal Wall by Dot Devota](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/chapbooks/the-eternal-wall-by-dot-devota/) - The poet Dot Devota is from a family of ranchers and rodeo stars. She is the author of And The Girls Worried Terribly (2013). Her poems and essays appear in PEN Poetry Series (PEN America), Volt, Make Magazine, Ancients, Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, The Volta, Aufgabe and have been translated into French and Arabic. She currently
- [staReduction by Nico Vassilakis](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/chapbooks/stareduction-by-nico-vassilakis/) - Composed during a long period of “doing nothing,” staReduction seeks to compose time through poetry’s primary nature of “something made out of nothing”—here are echos of doodling, marginalia, and nearly forgotten thoughts gathered loosely and ephemerally. ❧ Nico Vassilakis works in both textual and visual poetry. He is a curator for the Subtext Reading Series
- [Talking Masks by Adam Seelig](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/adam-seelig/talking-masks-oedipussy-by-adam-seelig/) - Praise for Adam Seelig "Riveting theatre, its arguments touching the mind while its emotions engage the heart." — Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine on Antigone: Insurgency "A truly admirable play – the themes are fascinating... the trio of actors wonderfully done, and the traces of the Jacob story very well modulated." — Marjorie Perloff on All
- [ICON TACT: Poems 1984 - 2001 by Victor Coleman](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/icon-tact-poems-1984-2001-by-victor-coleman/) - Victor Coleman was born in 1944 in Toronto. His first real job was as the late Ken Thomson’s mailroom clerk. He then went on to work for the Toronto Star (where the night editors mocked him for reading Joyce and Olson), and at Oxford University Press (a virtual apprenticeship in book design and the business
- [Blissful Times by Sandra Alland](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/blissful-times-by-sandra-alland/) - Sandra Alland is a writer and multimedia artist who has published and presented her work in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Spain, Scotland and England. Her first full-length book, Proof of a Tongue was hailed as “a stunning first collection of poetry, displaying immense talent and skill.” Known for her evocative readings and performances,
- [The Basho Variations by Steve McCaffery](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/the-basho-variations-by-steve-mccaffery/) - Praise for Steve McCaffery: “Literature for McCaffery… is not an act of imaginative creation but a procedure, a machine for estranging us from our own language—estranging and thereby recuperating …. [Panopticon] is ultimately a profoundly optimistic work, a leap of faith that chooses to revel in the opacity of language …. A hypnotizing work.” — Full
- [After Rilke: To Forget You Sang by Mark Goldstein](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/mark-goldstein/after-rilke-to-forget-you-sang-by-mark-goldstein/) - Praise for After Rilke “All first person pronouns have a shared pulse. Here, Rilke’s original poems are being translated by Goldstein (and the epistolary Martians) à la Spicer’s After Lorca. The author is soaking German for its English. By sound. Did he say what I thought he said? Spider? Milky? A homage to both Spicer and
- [In Stereo by Paul Hegedus](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/paul-hegedus/in-stereo-by-paul-hegedus/) - Paul Hegedus was born in Saskatoon. He is currently working on a yet to be titled visual poetic project. He teaches kindergarten in Brampton, Ontario. He is the author of Noise Present at the Moment Less Clear, a chapbook published by BookThug in 2006. In Stereo is his first book. 80 pages; 6x9 inches; paperback
- [White Porcupine by Phil Hall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/phil-hall/white-porcupine-by-phil-hall/) - ❧ Phil Hall was born in 1953 and raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in Mexico City in 1973. Since then he has published 11 other books of poems, five chapbooks, and a cassette of labour songs. Among his titles are: Homes (1979), Old Enemy
- [Here Away by Tom Dilworth](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/here-away-by-tom-dilworth/) - Praise for Here Away: "Finally, a party you can attend without having to go to it. Here Away gives you the prismatic eye of a fly on the wall. A fly who rides a boom through the room, picking up every exchange, every bon mot and not so bon mot, every unvoiced if-you-can’t-say-something-nice, every lexical
- [After the 6ix O'Clock News by Kemeny Babineau](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/kemeny-babineau/after-the-6ix-oclock-news-by-kemeny-babineau/) - Reviews: "...language is exploded and spatialized, scattered over the page in pieces of concrete poetry" —Aaron Giovannone for Canadian Literature ❧ Kemeny Babineau lives outside Brantford Ontario with his wife and two children. He is editor of the occasional literary magazine The New Chief Tongue and also operates the distinguished small press publisher Laurel Reed Books.
- [Miserable Singers (Book One) by Victor Coleman](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/miserable-singers-book-one-by-victor-coleman/) - Victor Coleman lives and works in Toronto. His last four books were published by BookThug. He has recently taught courses in modern and postmodern literature at Toronto New School of Writing, and leads an ongoing Writers Workshop at The Coach House Press that is open to anyone interested in "progressive" writing and thinking. He is
- [Horizontal Surfaces by George Bowering](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/horizontal-surfaces-by-george-bowering/) - Reviews "Bowering's poetic meditations weave together literature and criticism without indulging in abstract language or academic jargon." — Alessadra Capperdoni via Canadian Literature ❧ George Bowering writes these books about literary composition as well as short stories and the odd novel. He is also a poet of sorts, and won some prizes for his poetry
- [Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/tender-buttons-by-gertrude-stein/) - Third prize winner of the 2008 Alcuin Society for Excellence in Book Design in Canada for Poetry, awarded to Mark Goldstein Centennial Edition Department of Reissue No. 3 Introduction by Steve McCaffery A seminal text in the history of poetry and poetics, Tender Buttons was originally published in 1914 and is considered one of the
- [Fieldnotes, a forensic by Kate Eichhorn](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/kate-eichhorn/fieldnotes-a-forensic-by-kate-eichhorn/) - Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Praise for Kate Eichhorn: "Full of heightened ideas and lively associations, Fond is deeply rooted and impeccably accomplished." — Gerald Lampert Award Jury "A gorgeous book, and one that leaves much room for thought—on the page, and in the reader’s mind." — Stephen Collis ❧ Kate Eichhorn is the author
- [Fond by Kate Eichhorn](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/kate-eichhorn/fond-by-kate-eichhorn/) - Praise for Fond: "What is left when the archive disappears? Eichhorn’s Fond seems at once elegiac (so much is lost!) and celebratory (look what remains!). But it is also a work of dynamic energy in which the act of tracing those changing fields of meaning production that have been our collective memory devices exhibits an
- [At Alberta by Nathanaël](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/essays-ebooks/at-alberta-by-nathalie-stephens/) - Nathanaël writes l’entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of a dozen books including The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (2007), Touch to Affliction (2006), Paper City (2003), Je Nathanaël (2003) and L’Injure (2004), and ...s’arréte? Je (2007), for which she was awarded the Prix Alain-Grandbois. Je Nathanaël exists in English self-translation
- [Parts to Whole: A Play by Adam Seelig](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/adam-seelig/parts-to-whole-a-play-by-adam-seelig/) - In Parts to Whole, a man and a woman discuss and explore their intimacy in ways so simple as to be radical. Much like Adam Seelig’s Like the First Time (praised in The Globe and Mail as “striking, fascinating and darkly comic”), Parts to Whole is written without punctuation so that actors and readers may
- [Matter by Meredith Quartermain](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/meredith-quartermain/matter-by-meredith-quartermain/) - What if words evolved in species and genera just like birds and dinosaurs? What if you classified them in kingdoms and families? Made a phylogenetic tree with orders of Space, Matter, or Intellect. Gravity and Levity as classes of Matter. With Density, Rarity, Pungency, Ululation. Would this matter taxonomy speak of the out-there, the non-human?
- [Recipes from the Red Planet by Meredith Quartermain](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/recipes-from-the-red-planet-by-meredith-quartermain/) - Finalist for the 2011 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Illustrated with B&W plates by Susan Bee Suppose fiction is a mansion of mirrors where narrative, setting and plot are characters, and suppose this castle is haunted by Martians constantly rearranging, reversing and transElating its furniture of myths, fables and nursery rhymes. Let’s play space-wars, say the
- [Vermin by Lance La Rocque](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lance-la-rocque/vermin-by-lance-la-rocque/) - Vermin is a collection of diverse poems, matter-of-fact daydreams of body parts, money, family life, murder, children, and animals. Whimsical, unsettling, or creepy, depending on the reader's mood, the poems are united by an urge to crawl out from the suffocating spells of late capitalism, and take a look around. Watch the Book Launch and
- [Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life by Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/voluptuous-pleasure-the-truth-about-the-writing-life-by-marianne-apostolides/) - Globe and Mail Top Non-Fiction Book of 2012 "It is the misfortune (but also perhaps the voluptuous pleasure) of language not to be able to authenticate itself... language is, by nature, fictional." — Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life is a collection of non-fiction whose title states that non-fiction
- [repeater by Andrew McEwan](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/andrew-mcewan/repeater-by-andrew-mcewan/) - Finalist for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award repeater is a codebook. It is a poetic code programmed into a computer code. Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code for each letter of the alphabet as an acrostic, the poems of repeater encode an investigation of layered and digitized language into the heart of the code
- [You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence: Crafts Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews by Donato Mancini](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/donato-mancini/you-must-work-harder-to-write-poetry-of-excellence-crafts-discourse-and-the-common-reader-in-canadian-poetry-book-reviews-by-donato-mancini/) - While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What
- [RUSH: what fuckan theory; a study uv language by bill bissett](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bill-bissett/rush-what-fuckan-theory-a-study-uv-language-criticism-by-bill-bissett/) - The publication of bill bissett’s Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv language in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years—and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts—Rush embodies a collagist, multi-conscious
- [ivH: An Alphamath Serial by Victor Coleman](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/ivh-an-alphamath-serial-by-victor-coleman/) - ivH: An Alphamath Serial is a book-length poem composed in the tradition of such precursors as Pythagoras, who taught that Number was the essence of all things; Plato, who argued that geometry was the foundation of all knowledge; Leonardo, whose work clearly follows the Renaissance aesthetics of mathematics and the mathematics of aesthetics; Descartes, Pascal,
- [The Hospital Poems by Robert Anderson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/chapbooks/the-hospital-poems-by-robert-anderson/) - These poems have everything to do with the hospital. These poems have nothing to do with the hospital. This is the psychosis of the word/ward. The personal and the mythic. Obsessive and unrequited love. The twisted syntax of imagery and phrases. They conceal and expose. For those whom there is no outside ward: the Old
- [Emanations: fluttertongue 6 by Steven Ross Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/emanations-fluttertongue-6-by-steven-ross-smith/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated 2015 Fall Poetry Selection 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 (a long poem that encompasses a life)—Emanations is the sixth chapter of that project. Smith bends, confuses, and disintegrates the fundamental
- [Vinci, Later by Morten Søndergaard, translated by John Irons](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/literature-in-translation/vinci-later-by-morten-sondergaard/) - Finalist for the 2003 Nordic Council’s Prize Danish poet Morten Søndergaard has been living abroad and spent some time in the little Italian town of Vinci. The poetry in this collection is the result of that experience. It dramatizes various aspects of (post)modern reality, dreams, family life, architecture, sculpture gathered together as a landscape through
- [Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace by Niels Lyngsø, translated by Gregory Pardlo](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/literature-in-translation/pencil-of-rays-and-spiked-mace-by-niels-lyngso/) - With an Introduction by Stephen Cain Produced in conjunction with the author’s appearance at Harbourfront’s 2004 International Festival of Authors in Toronto as part of their SuperDanish Festival, Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace is the first full-length collection in English by Niels Lyngsø, one of the most original poets working in Denmark today. Translated
- [Picture World by Niels Frank, translated by Roger Greenwald](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/literature-in-translation/picture-world-by-niels-frank-translated-from-the-danish-by-roger-greenwald/) - Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Reviews “Én Vej [Picture World] is extraordinary: not only a stylistically refined and intellectually challenging book of poems, but a work of great beauty.” — Peter Stein Larsen, Kristeligt Dagblad “Niels Frank’s symphonic Picture World is a vivid, worldly, spellbindingly sustained aria of anguished yet eager perception—up-to-the-minute, bleakly witty,
- [Expeditions of a Chimaera by Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/erin-moure/expeditions-of-a-chimaera-by-oana-avasilichioaei-and-erin-moure/) - Reviews: "Expeditions expedites you into a circus: there is disguise, an acrobatic puff of smoke, a clown’s painted face, a human cannonball and, down below its tightrope, an arena full of pawprints, with no net to catch your fall." —Otilia Acacia "Avasilichioaei and Moure inhabit the force of our persistent urge to mean, they send
- [The SubWay by Philip Quinn](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/pdf/the-subway-by-philip-quinn/) - 1st Place winner of the Toronto Arts Council 2009 Get Lit competition. Ensconced in the hard physicality of the Toronto subway system and its mechanisms and those elements of humanity that occasionally peer out from behind its moving windows, The SubWay illustrates the history of the TTC and the impact it has had on those
- [esp: accumulation sonnets by Jay MillAr](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jay-millar/esp-accumulation-sonnets-by-jay-millar/) - In esp: accumulation sonnets, we “listen in” to hear language that usually passes through. MillAr asks: if you throw out the nets, what will be caught? What will be missed? What will be miss-represented? And then, as time passes, what shall we do with these linear fragments of time that interleave their lyric eye among
- [Crystal Flowers by Florine Stettheimer, Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/florine-stettheimer/crystal-flowers-by-florine-stettheimer-edited-by-irene-gammel-and-suzanne-zelazo/) - Department of Reissue No. 5 Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist of German-Jewish heritage living in New York. She was a painter, designer, and poet. Together with her sisters Ettie and Carrie, Stettheimer hosted a legendary salon on the Upper West Side, where they entertained the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, Henri
- [The Hunt by Jason Dickson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/the-hunt-by-jason-dickson/) - The Hunt is a collection of postcards that tell the fragmented story of a nameless family’s search for the murderer of their mother. It is a narrative in miniature—a hunt—ghost story as travel tale, a historical romance handwritten on the reverse of 63 antique postcards, each “found” for its geographic location from Newfoundland to British
- [Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis by Jason Dickson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/glenn-piano-by-gladys-priddis-by-jason-dickson/) - In a time before time began, one woman will dare the boundaries between madness and sanity to find the lost love that so ever has eluded her. Terror. Duplication. History seen as it has never before. Bookthug presents Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis, a high octane thrill ride of confession and crime, told as only
- [Unleashed by Sina Queyras](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/essays/unleashed-by-sina-queyras/) - Department of Critical Thought No. 2 With an Afterword by Vanessa Place. 05/09/04 Now she is blogging. Now she is sitting on the black couch listening to the sirens wail and the rain fall. Now she is thinking of oysters. Now she is wondering why this is worth sharing. Now she is thinking, how decipher
- [Mal Arme: Letter Drop III by Victor Coleman and Paul Collins](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/paul-collins/mal-arme-letter-drop-iii-by-victor-coleman-and-paul-collins/) - MAL ARME represents the third stage of a series of Oulipian books that started with LETTER DROP (2000), continued with MI SING (Book Thug 2004), and will conclude with The Occasional Troubadour (forthcoming 2010). The first three volumes each consist of 26 Lipograms, lettered A thru Z, wherein the A poems have no As, the
- [Every Way Oakly by Steve McCaffery](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/every-way-oakly-by-steve-mccaffery/) - Department of Reissue No. 3.1 Originally published in an edition of 100 copies for a class at the University of Alberta in 1976, Every Way Oakly is Steve McCaffery’s homolinguistic translation of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. The original edition, which appeared as a classy photocopied edition printed on letter-sized sheets and stapled along spine, has
- [The Apothecary by Lisa Robertson](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/chapbooks/the-apothecary-by-lisa-robertson/) - Lisa Robertson wins the inaugural C.D. Wright Award for Poetry I want an ingenious fibre to be treated as funny tragedy expressing a classic argument against materialism which runs like this: which changes of costume are bound to be dangerous? The Apothecary is an extinct fern called a sentence unfurling in the mists. It is
- [What Happened by Tom Walmsley](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/what-happened-by-tom-walmsley/) - What Happened is a new collection of “pre-enlightenment” poems about everything Tom Walmsley considers significant, both to himself and (ultimately) to everyone else: God, sexuality, the wretched past (for everyone, one way or another) and the Here and Now. Reflecting upon his tumultuous past, Walmsley’s blunt meditations present a man who has learned (the hard
- [Game Show Reversed by kevin mcpherson eckhoff](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/chapbooks/game-show-reversed-by-kevin-mcpherson-eckhoff/) - Game Show Reversed rewinds, sentence by sentence, the first primetime episode of Wheel of Fortune. Transcribing backwards the game show narrative of skill, chance, and easy money, this project creates a contest of patience, misfortune, and small reward wherein the prizes become characters, the contestants, consolation prizes, and the readers, grand champions. kevin mcpherson eckhoff
- [The Iliad Book XXII: The Death of Hector by Lisa Jarnot](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/lisa-jarnot/the-iliad-books-xxii-the-death-of-hector-by-lisa-jarnot/) - And Achilles swift-footedhe spoke filled with anger: “You’ve screwed me, Apollo, you biggest headfucker of all the gods, you turned me here now from the tall city wall and those many men who could have been dusted before they slunk back home to Troy” Completed during 2004 and 2005, this translation of Book XXII of
- [Enter the Raccoon by Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/beatriz-hausner/enter-the-raccoon-by-beatriz-hausner/) - Enter the Raccoon documents a love affair between a woman and a raccoon. They are a couple that loves without preconceptions, whose being together eschews all limits until their beliefs in the self are put to the test. Their story unfolds each time one surrenders to the other in a sometimes melancholic and cruel, other
- [Ohmhole by Tyler Hayden](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/fiction-ebooks/ohmhole-by-tyler-hayden/) - Imagine a not-so-distant future in which everyone is HIV+ and, sooner or later, ends up in a state-operated hospice dying of AIDS. In a broken socio-economic order, governments have been reduced to a single function: extending the lives of their citizens with anti-retroviral treatment (ART) drugs. Meanwhile, rumours have coalesced into a widespread belief in
- [Panopticon by Steve McCaffery](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/panopticon-by-steve-mccaffery/) - Announcing the long-awaited reprint of Steve McCaffery's rare 1984 intervention into fiction (if "fiction" indeed this be). Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon Papers" McCaffery's Panopticon shatters all omnivison in a tour de force of formal innovation, theoretical comment and narrative critique. In Panopticon narrative stutters, repeats itself, sequence is deranged and complicated by
- [March End Prill by Bryan Sentes](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bryan-sentes/march-end-prill-by-bryan-sentes/) - † prill, n.1 A spinning top. prill, n.2 A small stream of running water; a rill. † prill, n.3 A girl, a lass. prill, n.4 In mining: (a piece of) rich copper ore remaining after separation and removal of low-grade material; more fully prill ore. Also: (a droplet of) copper occurring suspended in the molten
- [The Diamond Alphabet by George Bowering](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/george-bowering/the-diamond-alphabet-by-george-bowering/) - George Bowering is fond of baseball, and he likes the alphabet. Having written a few baseball books and a few alphabet books over the years, he decided to write a baseball alphabet book. The Diamond Alphabet is made up of 130 between-innings takes, five for each letter. You probably expected "Mays," but were you ready
- [Killdeer: essay poems by Phil Hall](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/killdeer-essay-poems-by-phil-hall/) - Watch the Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Reviews: "Killdeer is... a meditation on the poetic process that stimulates both the intellect and the imagination." —The Toronto Star "Hall manages to rescue the lyrical essay from its recondite excesses and turn it into something that’s as adventurous as it is readable. Hall has
- [Nobody Rides for Free by John Francis Hughes](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/nobody-rides-for-free-by-john-francis-hughes/) - Reviews "Full of adventure, humour, insights into various cultures, and tall tales that sound as though they are completely true." — Grady Harp via amazon.com "A breathtaking look at a sometimes hilarious and often terrifying odyssey." — Jayna Carter via indigo.ca ❧ John Hughes was born June 22, 1970. He is a long-time bike courier,
- [Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/ebooks/epub/cosmographia-a-post-lucretian-faux-micro-epic-by-michael-boughn/) - Watch the BookThug Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Book Launch and Reading Part 2: ❧ Michael Boughn has taught literature courses at the University of Toronto for 19 years. His own writing includes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and essays. He is the author of H.D.: A Bibliography 1905-1990 (1993) and co-editor (with Victor
- [Silvija by Sandra Ridley](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/silvija-by-sandra-ridley/) - Finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize for Excellence Finalist for the 2017 Archibald Lampman Award 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Poetry Preview Selection Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss
- [Lost Originals by David B. Goldstein](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-b-goldstein/lost-originals-by-david-b-goldstein/) - 49th Shelf Most Anticipated Fall 2016 Poetry Preview Selection Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art. Starting from the notion that every act of speaking is a translation between worlds, writer, scholar, and critic David B. Goldstein’s Lost Originals comprises a collection of
- [Minor Dedications by JF Robitaille](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/poetry/minor-dedications-by-jf-robitaille/) - Praise for JF Robitaille: "...we see that this young bard has been compared to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen...but JF Robitaille's songs are so original that no comparisons are necessary!" —Der Spiegel Magazine(Germany) "...honest stories inspired by human experiences." —Filter Magazine "...Robitaille's music can evoke Lou Reed in it's detachment and Leonard Cohen in it's
- [Medallions of Belief](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/chapbooks/medallions-of-belief/) - Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Studying at UBC in the early 1960s, he was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH. After graduate work with Robert Creeley at the University of New Mexico and with
- [Now Lays the Sunshine By by Andrew Hughes](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/andrew-hughes/now-lays-the-sunshine-by-by-andrew-hughes/) - Praise for Now Lays the Sunshine By "If Catullus had lived in the age of skateboards his name would be Andy Hughes. Let’s call him a young, lyrical, New Englander who crafts the line into a bloom of self-effacing, reflective, and always funny-sad passages. These poems are indeed passages: passages into a creative life filled
- [NEW LANG(UAGE) SIGN A Poem by Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/gary-barwin/new-language-sign-a-poem-by-gary-barwin-gregory-betts/) - Moments Café No. 10 Get this broadside FREE when you order any of these Barwin / Betts titles: - The Obvious Flap by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts - Haikube by Gregory Betts - If Language by Gregory Betts Condition: New
- [air pressure by David Fujino](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/david-fujino/air-pressure-by-david-fujino/) - ❧ David Fujino is a writer, actor, occasional trumpet player (as part of his acting roles), who’s worked with the artistic community on more than one level. Published in Canada, the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Japan, and the World Wide Web, Greenwood, British Columbia-born Fujino works from his long-time home base of Toronto. David
- [No Work Finished Here - Book and Record Bundle](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/books/fiction/no-work-finished-here-book-and-record-bundle/) - Watch the BookThug Author Interview: Watch the Book Launch and Reading: Praise for No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol: "Liz Worth's collection of poems is a testament to both her artistry and daily discipline. In an age of diminished attention, her perseverance in daily poem—making by mining the same source over and over reminds
- [The Shining Material by Aisha Sasha John](https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/aisha-sasha-john/the-shining-material-by-aisha-sasha-john/) - Watch the BookThug Interview: Aisha reads from The Shining Material: Praise for The Shining Material "Miss John here reminds, in oddly comely poems of direct address, 'how small the aesthetic is' and how ravenously transcendent the human woman. The mouths of these poems adore phonemes and are unafraid of their important difference: they say the woman
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- [Mona Høvring](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/mona-hovring/) - MONA HØVRING is an award-winning Norwegian author of many acclaimed books, including eight poetry collections and six novels. She has been nominated for and won various prestigious awards, including the Unified Language Prize, the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and the Dobloug Prize. Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born,
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- [Caroline Dawson](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/caroline-dawson/) - Caroline Dawson was born in Chile in 1979 and immigrated to Quebec with her family when she was seven. As the Andes Disappeared, originally published in French as Là où je me terre (2020), was a finalist for various prizes and won the Prix littéraire des Collégiens and the Prix AIEQ. She is also the
- [Michael Eddy](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/michael-eddy/) - MICHAEL EDDY studied art in Halifax and Frankfurt and spent five years in Beijing. His writing has appeared in various publications, including C Magazine, esse, and Peripheral Review. Born in New York City and raised in Halifax, he now lives in Montreal. Koh-i-Noor is his debut novel.
- [Kari Dickson](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/kari-dickson/) - KARI DICKSON is a literary translator. She translates from Norwegian, and her work includes literary fiction, children's books, theatre, and nonfiction. Some recent literary translations include Rune Christiansen's Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest and The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life, and Mona Høvring's Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born, co-translated by
- [Jacob Wren](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/jacob-wren/) - JACOB WREN makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail Best Book
- [Gary Barwin](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/gary-barwin/) - GARY BARWIN is a writer, musician, and multimedia artist and the author of thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, and essays. His novel Yiddish for Pirates was a national bestseller, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Canadian Jewish Literary
- [Therese Estacion](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/therese-estacion/) - THERESE ESTACION is the author of Phantompains, a poetry collection that explores her Filipinx heritage and physical disability. In 2021, the book was a finalist for both the Foreword INDIES Award for Poetry and the Firecracker Award for Poetry. Based in Toronto, Estacion has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing
- [Susanna Lang](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/susanna-lang/) - SUSANNA LANG is an award-winning poet, translator, and creative writing instructor. She is the author of three poetry collections and the chapbook Like This, and her fourth full-length work, This Spangled Dark, is forthcoming in 2027. Her translations include two collections of poems by Souad Labbize, My Soul Has No Corners and Unfasten the Silk of Your Silence. Her poems, translations, and reviews have
- [Hélène Dorion](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/helene-dorion/) - HÉLÈNE DORION is a poet, novelist, and essayist who has published nearly forty books, including the novel Not Even the Sound of a River, and her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She has won many awards, including a Governor General's Literary Award. She is a recipient of the prestigious Le Prix Athanase-David, awarded
- [Rune Christiansen](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/rune-christiansen/) - RUNE CHRISTIANSEN is one of Norway’s most important literary writers and the author of over twenty books, including works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. He has won many prestigious awards, including the 2014 Brage Prize for his bestselling novel The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life. Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest was shortlisted for the Brage Prize,
- [Lisa Baldissera](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/lisa-baldissera/) - LISA BALDISSERA has worked in curatorial roles in public art galleries in Western Canada since 1999, including as Director at Griffin Art Projects, Senior Curator at Contemporary Calgary, Chief Curator at Mendel Art Gallery, and Curator of Contemporary Art at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. She holds MFAs in creative writing and art, and a PhD
- [Ryan Fitzpatrick](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/ryan-fitzpatrick/) - RYAN FITZPATRICK is the author of five poetry books, including No Depression in Heaven and Sunny Ways. The 2024-2025 writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, they currently live in Calgary.
- [Carolyn Smart](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/carolyn-smart/) - CAROLYN SMART is the author of six previous poetry collections. She is a winner of the CBC Nonfiction Prize and was the director of creative writing at Queen’s University for three decades. Founder of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, she frequently works with other writers via mentorship and editing. Born in the United Kingdom,
- [Olga Ravn](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/olga-ravn/) - OLGA RAVN is one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary authors. She is also a poet, a literary critic, and an editor. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. It has been published in twenty-five
- [Anna Chatterton](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/anna-chatterton/) - ANNA CHATTERTON is a writer, theatre artist, and librettist. A two-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, her published plays include Within the Glass, Gertrude and Alice (co-written with Evalyn Parry), Cowgirl Up and Quiver, which was nominated for a Hamilton Literary Award. She is the winner of a City of Hamilton Arts Award and a Toronto Theatre
- [Shahrzad Arshadi](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/shahrzad-arshadi/) - SHAHRZAD ARSHADI is a Canadian-Iranian multidisciplinary artist who works in various fields, including photography, documentary film, playwriting, and performance. Since 2022, she has co-produced and co-hosted the Future Is Now podcast, and her plays and performances include It Is Only Sound That Remains (2011), Come Wash With Us: Seeking Home in Story (2015), and Forbidden Voices (2018). She has received multiple awards for her
- [Camilla Gibb](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/camilla-gibb/) - CAMILLA GIBB is the internationally acclaimed author of five novels: Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, and The Relatives. She is also the author of the RBC Taylor Prize–shortlisted memoir This Is Happy. Gibb has received the Trillium Book Award and the City of Toronto Book Award and has been
- [Sasha Dugdale](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/sasha-dugdale/) - SASHA DUGDALE is a UK-based poet and translator. Her sixth book of poetry, The Strongbox, was published in 2024. Dugdale’s translation of Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory was a finalist for the International Booker Prize and won the MLA Lois Roth Award. She has translated two of Stepanova’s poetry collections, including Holy Winter 20/21
- [Maria Stepanova](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/maria-stepanova/) - MARIA STEPANOVA is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist. She is the author of many books, including the poetry collection Holy Winter 20/21 and the acclaimed novel In Memory of Memory, both translated into English by Sasha Dugdale. In Memory of Memory won Russia’s Bolshaya Kniga Award and the NOS Prize in 2018 and
- [Lindsay Zier-Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/lindsay-zier-vogel/) - LINDSAY ZIER-VOGEL is a Toronto-based author and the creator of the internationally beloved Love Lettering Project. After studying contemporary dance, Zier-Vogel received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She is the author of the acclaimed novel Letters to Amelia, and her first picture book, Dear Street, was a Junior Library Guild
- [Saskia Vogel](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/saskia-vogel/) - SASKIA VOGEL is the author of Permission (2019) and the translator of more than two dozen Swedish-language books. She was awarded the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature for her writing. For her translations, she was awarded the George Bernard Shaw Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, among other nominations. Part of her time
- [Balsam Karam](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/balsam-karam/) - BALSAM KARAM is of Kurdish ancestry and has lived in Sweden since she was a young child. She is an author and librarian and made her literary debut in 2018 with the critically acclaimed novel, Event Horizon, which was shortlisted for the Katapult Prize and won the Smaland Literature Festival’s Migrant Prize. Her second novel, The Singularity, originally
- [Cary Fagan](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/cary-fagan/) - CARY FAGAN is the author of eight novels and six short story collections. He has won many awards, including a Foreword Indies Silver Award for Humor, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction, and the Toronto Book Award. He has also been nominated for various prizes, including the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Atwood
- [Emma McKenna](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/emma-mckenna/) - EMMA McKENNA is a multidisciplinary writer with a passion for women's histories and narratives. She received her PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University and has published widely on feminist issues. McKenna is also the author of Chenille or Silk, which was shortlisted for the 2020 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry. Born in Duncan, British
- [Jennifer LoveGrove](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/jennifer-lovegrove/) - JENNIFER LOVEGROVE is the author of the Giller Prize–longlisted novel Watch How We Walk, as well as three poetry collections: Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes (longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award), I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel and The Dagger Between Her Teeth. She is currently working on a new novel, and creative nonfiction. She divides her time between downtown
- [D. Nandi Odhiambo](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/d-nandi-odhiambo/) - D. NANDI ODHIAMBO is the author of four previous critically acclaimed novels, including Smells Like Stars. His recent work, The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation, explores the intersections of literature, philosophy, and race. A recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Odhiambo is a Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu. He lives
- [Liz Johnston](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/liz-johnston/) - LIZ JOHNSTON grew up in Revelstoke, B.C., and now lives and writes in Toronto. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Grain, The Antigonish Review, and The Cardiff Review. Johnston is an editor of Brick, A Literary Journal. The Fall-Down Effect is her debut novel.
- [Fenn Stewart](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/fenn-stewart/) - FENN STEWART is the author of three chapbooks and the poetry collection, Better Nature, which was longlisted for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. A former editor of The Capilano Review, she continues to serve on the magazine’s editorial board. Stewart holds a PhD in social and political thought, and teaches literature and writing at
- [Martin Aitken](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/martin-aitken/) - MARTIN AITKEN has translated the work of contemporary Scandinavian writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Høeg, Ida Jessen, and Kim Leine. He was a finalist at the US National Book Awards 2018 and received the PEN America Translation Prize 2019 for his translation of Hanne Ørstavik's Love. His translation of Olga Ravn's The Employees was shortlisted for
- [Miranda Schreiber](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/miranda-schreiber/) - MIRANDA SCHREIBER is a Toronto-based writer and researcher. Her work has appeared in places like the Toronto Star, the Walrus, the Globe and Mail, BBC, and the National Post. She has been nominated for a digital publishing award by the National Media Foundation and was the recipient of the Solidarity and Pride Champion Award from
- [Marianne Apostolides](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/marianne-apostolides/) - MARIANNE APOSTOLIDES is an award-winning author of eight books, which have been translated and published in over a dozen countries. Her books include I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award in Science Fiction), Deep Salt Water, Voluptuous Pleasure (listed among the Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2012), and Swim. She is a two-time recipient of the
- [Shani Mootoo](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/shani-mootoo/) - SHANI MOOTOO is the author of six novels, three collections of poetry, and one short story collection. She is a four-time Giller Prize nominee, and her work has been long and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Lambda Literary Prize, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has been awarded the Doctor of Letters honoris
- [Michael V. Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/michael-v-smith/) - MICHAEL V. SMITH is a writer, performer, and filmmaker. His poetry has been shortlisted for the ReLit Award, his fiction has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize and Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and his queer memoir My Body Is Yours was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Smith is the winner of a Western
- [Aleshia Jensen](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/aleshia-jensen/) - ALESHIA JENSEN is a literary translator and former bookseller living in Tio’tia:ke/Montréal. A four-time finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, Jensen translates Quebec and French fiction and indie comics. Her translations include Remnants by Céline Huyghebaert, Prague by Maude Veilleux, in co-translation with Aimee Wall, as well as graphic novels by Mirion Malle, María Medem, and Camille
- [Sibylle Grimbert](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/sibylle-grimbert/) - SIBYLLE GRIMBERT’s eleventh novel, Le Dernier des siens (2022) was a finalist for the Femina, Renaudot, Femina Lycéens, and Renaudot Lycéens prizes, and the Grand Prix de l'Académie française. The book has been translated into many languages, including English as The Last of Its Kind (tr. by Aleshia Jensen), and an animated film is forthcoming. Grimbert is also a recipient
- [Andrea MacPherson](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/andrea-macpherson/) - ANDREA MACPHERSON is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. She has been shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, longlisted for the ReLit Award, and selected for CBC Canada Reads: People’s Choice. Andrea holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, is the former editor of Prism International, and has
- [Tamara Jong](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/tamara-jong/) - TAMARA JONG is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has been published in the Humber Literary Review, Room Magazine, and The Fiddlehead, and has been both long and shortlisted for various creative non-fiction prizes. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University, and a former member of Room Magazine’s collective.
- [Ben Ladouceur](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/ben-ladouceur/) - BEN LADOUCEUR is the author of Otter, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and selected as a National Post best book of the year, and Mad Long Emotion, winner of the Archibald Lampman Award. He is a recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for
- [Christine McNair](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/christine-mcnair/) - CHRISTINE MCNAIR is the author of Charm (winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). She was also shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook pleasantries and other misdemeanours was shortlisted for
- [Susan Ouriou](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/susan-ouriou/) - SUSAN OURIOU is an award-winning literary translator (French and Spanish to English) and fiction writer. She has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation on seven occasions, winning for her translation of Pieces of Me by Charlotte Gingras. She also translated Catherine Leroux's The Future, winner of CBC Canada Reads in 2024. Other translations
- [Hanna Nordenhök](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/hanna-nordenhok/) - HANNA NORDENHÖK has been awarded several major literary honours for her work. Her novel Caesaria (2020) won Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize and was shortlisted for Tidningen Vi’s Literature Prize. Nordenhök also works as a translator from Spanish and has been praised for her translations of Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu, and Gloria Gervitz. She lives in
- [Fanny Britt](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/fanny-britt/) - FANNY BRITT is a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards, a Libris Award, a Joe Shuster Award, and was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. Faires les sucres won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language Fiction in 2021. Britt has written a dozen
- [Liz Worth](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/liz-worth/) - LIZ WORTH is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer. She is a two-time nominee for the ReLit Award for Poetry for her books The Truth Is Told Better This Way and No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. Her first book, Treat Me Like Dirt, was the first of its kind to provide an in-depth
- [Jessica Bebenek](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/jessica-bebenek/) - JESSICA BEBENEK is a queer interdisciplinary poet and educator from Tkaronto (Toronto) who now splits her time between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and an off-grid shack on unceded Anishinaabeg territory. She works as a risograph printer and bookmaker at Concordia University's Centre for Expanded Poetics, where she organized the international Occult Poetics Symposium. In 2021, Bebenek was a
- [Kate Cayley](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/kate-cayley/) - KATE CAYLEY is the author of three poetry collections, including Lent, a young adult novel, and two short story collections. How You Were Born won the of the Trillium Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. She has won the O. Henry Short Story Prize, the Mitchell Prize for
- [Tree Abraham](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/tree-abraham/) - TREE ABRAHAM is an Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based writer, art director, and book designer. Her works experiment with collaged essay and mixed media visuals. She is also the author of the creative nonfiction book Cyclettes.
- [Shannon Webb-Campbell](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/shannon-webb-campbell/) - SHANNON WEBB-CAMPBELL is of Mi’kmaq and settler heritage and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a member of Flat Bay First Nation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Her previous books include Lunar Tides, I Am a Body of Land, and Still No Word, which received Egale Canada’s Out in Print Award. Her forthcoming book, Re:
- [Neil Smith](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/neil-smith/) - NEIL SMITH is a writer and translator from Montreal. He has won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the Quebec Writers’ Federation First Book Prize. He has also been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, the Sunburst Award, the Journey Prize, the Prix des libraires du Québec, and the Canadian Library
- [Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/jean-philippe-baril-guerard/) - JEAN-PHILIPPE BARIL GUÉRARD is an actor and writer who lives in Montreal. He is the author of four novels: Sports et divertissements (published in English as Sports and Pastimes), Royal (winner of the Prix littéraire des collégiens), Manuel de la vie sauvage (which was translated into Spanish), and Haute démolition (You Crushed It). He also
- [Zoe Whittall](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/zoe-whittall/) - ZOE WHITTALL is the author of the short story collection Wild Failure, and five bestselling novels includ­ing The Fake, The Spectacular, The Best Kind of People, Holding Still for as Long as Possible, and Bottle Rocket Hearts. Her previous poetry collec­tions include Pre-cordial Thump, The Emily Valentine Poems, and The Best Ten Minutes of Your
- [NGUYỄN AN LÝ](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/nguyen-an-ly/) - NGUYỄN AN LÝ lives in Ho Chi Minh City. She has over twenty translations into Vietnamese, published under various names and in various genres, including authors such as Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Richard Flanagan, Jorge Luis Borges, and the poetry in The Lord of the Rings. As an editor, she has worked on
- [Thuận](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/thuan/) - THUẬN was born in 1967 in Hanoi. She studied at Pyatigorsk State University (Russia) and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is the author of ten novels and a recipient of the Writers’ Union Prize, the highest award in Vietnamese literature. Seven of her novels were translated into French and published in France. Chinatown, her
- [Adrienne Gruber](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/adrienne-gruber/) - ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including Q & A, Buoyancy Control, and This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the Antigonish Review’s 2015 Great Blue Heron poetry contest and
- [Howard Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/howard-scott-2/) - HOWARD SCOTT is a literary translator living in Montreal who translates fiction, poetry and non-fiction, often with Phyllis Aronoff. He received the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation for The Euguelion by Louky Bersianik and, with Phyllis Aronoff, won the Quebec Writers' Federation Translation Award for The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701 by Gilles Havard.
- [Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/natasha-kanape-fontaine-2/) - NATASHA KANAPÉ FONTAINE is an Innu writer, poet and interdisciplinary artist from Pessamit, on the Nitassinan (North Shore, Quebec). She lives in Tio'tia:ke, known as Montreal. Her critically acclaimed poetry and essays are widely taught and have been translated into several languages. In 2017, she received the Rights and Freedoms Award for her poetry and
- [Natasha Kanapé Fontaine](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/natasha-kanape-fontaine/) - NATASHA KANAPÉ FONTAINE is an Innu writer, poet, and interdisciplinary artist from Pessamit, on the Nitassinan (North Shore, Quebec). She lives in Tio'tia:ke, known as Montreal. Her critically acclaimed poetry and essays are widely taught and have been translated into several languages. In 2017, she received the Rights and Freedoms Award for her poetry and
- [Kathryn Mockler](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/kathryn-mockler/) - KATHRYN MOCKLER is the author of five poetry books and the story collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press, 2023). She co-edited the print anthology Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (2020) and runs the literary newsletter Send My Love to Anyone. She teaches screenwriting and fiction in the Writing Department at the University of
- [Howard Scott](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/howard-scott/) - HOWARD SCOTT is a literary translator living in Montreal who translates fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, often with Phyllis Aronoff. He received the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation for The Euguelion by Louky Bersianik and, with Phyllis Aronoff, won the Quebec Writers' Federation Translation Award for The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701 by Gilles
- [Joni Murphy](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/joni-murphy/) - JONI MURPHY was born in New Mexico lives in New York. Her debut novel, Double Teenage, was named one of The Globe and Mail's 100 Best Books of 2016. Her second novel, Talking Animals, was published in 2020.
- [Jess Taylor](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/jess-taylor/) - Jess Taylor is a Tkaronto (Toronto) writer and poet. She is the author of Pauls, the title story of which won the 2013 Gold Fiction National Magazine Award, and Just Pervs, a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction. Her story “Two Sex Addicts Fall in Love” was longlisted for the 2018 Journey Prize.
- [Stephen Cain](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/stephen-cain/) - STEPHEN CAIN is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks, including False Friends, I Can Say Interpellation, Zoom, Etc Phrases, American Standard/ Canada Dry, Torontology, and dyslexicon. His academic publications include The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (co-written with Tim Conley) and a critical edition of bpNichol’s early long poems: bp: beginnings. He lives in Toronto where he teaches avant-garde
- [Jonathan Kaplansky](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/jonathan-kaplansky/) - JONATHAN KAPLANSKY won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux’s La vie extérieure (Things Seen). His translation of Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic by Hervé Dumont was a finalist for the Wall Award from the Theatre Library Association. Recent translations include Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane, Hélène Rioux’s The End of the
- [Erin Brubacher](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/erin-brubacher/) - ERIN BRUBACHER is a multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of the poetry collection In the small hours: Thirty-nine months & seven days and co-author of the hybrid, performance-based book 7th Cousins: An Automythography. Her award-winning work in theatre has taken her to contexts including the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), Festival
- [Daniel Sarah Karasik](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/daniel-sarah-karasik/) - DANIEL SARAH KARASIK (they/them) is the author of many books, including two poetry collections, Plenitude and Hungry, and the short story collection Faithful and Other Stories. Their work has been recognized with the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award, the CBC Short Story Prize, and the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award. They organize with the network
- [Paola Ferrante](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/paola-ferrante/) - Paola Ferrante is a writer living with depression. Her debut poetry collection, What to Wear When Surviving a Lion Attack (2019), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has won Grain Magazine's Short Grain Contest for Poetry, The New Quarterly's Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award, Room Magazine's Fiction Contest, and was longlisted for the 2020 Journey Prize for the story “When Foxes
- [Erín Moure](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/erin-moure/) - Erín Moure is a poet and poetry translator. Most recent book: Chus Pato's The Face of the Quartzes (2021) from Galician. Her translation of Chantal Neveu's This Radiant Life (2020) won the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation from French and the Nelson Ball Prize. Her latest book of poetry and biotext is Theophylline:
- [Syd Zolf](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/syd-zolf/) - Syd (formerly Rachel) Zolf has published six books of poetry, including three with Coach House Books: Janey’s Arcadia (2014), Neighbour Procedure (2010), and Human Resources (2007); and a selected poetry, Social Poesis, with Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2019). Their theoretical text, No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics (Duke UP, 2021) was a finalist for the
- [Caroline Waight](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/caroline-waight/) - Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German, and Norwegian. She has translated a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, with recent publications including The Lobster's Shell by Caroline Albertine Minor (Granta, 2022), Agatha by Anne Cathrine Bomann (Book*hug Press, 2021), Island by Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen (Pushkin Press, 2021) and The
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- [Johanna Skibsrud](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/johanna-skibsrud/) - Johanna Skibsrud is the author of three previous collections of poetry, three novels—including the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, The Sentimentalists—and three nonfiction titles, including The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature, and Being, and most recently, Fool: A Study in Literature and Practice. An Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Arizona, Johanna divides her time
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- [Beatriz Hausner](https://bookhugpress.ca/author-bios/beatriz-hausner/) - Beatriz Hausner was born in Chile and immigrated to Canada with her family when she was a teenager. She has published many poetry books, including The Wardrobe Mistress (2004), Sew Him Up (2010), Enter the Raccoon (2012), and Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (2020). Her prose and poetry have been published in many chapbooks and included in several anthologies, and her books have been
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