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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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.
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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 […]
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Happy Publication Day to Permanent Revolution, by Gail Scott!
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Happy Publication Day to Erase and Rewind by Meghan Bell!
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