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 […]
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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 […]
Continue readingAdvice to My Younger Writer Self: An 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 […]
Continue readingFeature 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, […]
Continue readingStaring 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 […]
Continue readingThe Mother of All Lists: 5 Books for Mother’s 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 […]
Continue readingShare 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 […]
Continue readingBookThug 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 […]
Continue readingWorld Health Day: Let’s Talk (and Read)
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 […]
Continue readingEvent 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 […]
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