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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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