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 […]
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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 […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, 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 […]
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