Celebrate Dad: 5 Books for Father’s 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 […]
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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 […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Brian Dedora and Martín Rodríguez-Gaona discuss 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 […]
Continue readingIn 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 […]
Continue readingIntroducing BookThug’s 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 […]
Continue readingIn 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 […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s 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 […]
Continue readingBookThug’s 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, […]
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