How can poetry set you free? Author Kate Cayley answers our National Poetry Month series question with a query of her own: can poetry’s request for our acute attention be a pathway to a world unseen? Read what she has to say: “I’m not sure how to answer the question of how, or whether, poetry […]
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Today, we’ve invited Kate Cayley to the blog to share thoughts on a poem from Lent. The poem, entitled “Of Rats and Floods,” is aptly inspired by an actual rat infestation and flood in her home. But Cayley explains how the initial distress around the infestation changed into empathy for the creatures who have been […]
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April is National Poetry Month, and we are delighted to kick things off with the release of Lent by Kate Cayley! Read on to learn all about this wonderful collection, which explores domestic and artistic life amidst the environmental crisis and the surprising ways that every philosophical quandary—large and small—converges in the home, in conversations, and […]
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This week’s Spring 2023 Season Preview spotlights Lent by award-winning writer Kate Cayley. In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which only private life exists yet threatens to become trivial through a sense of mutual, overarching dread. Lent is built from this tension, exploring domestic […]
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Happy New Year! Today, we are revealing our Spring 2023 lineup, featuring seven remarkable fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles! Read on for all the details, including on sale dates and pre-order information, plus an announcement about FREE SHIPPING on website orders! Spring 2023 Fiction  Places Like These by Lauren Carter Literary Fiction | […]
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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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Here at BookThug HQ, we can’t believe it’s already December 30! Today, we’re looking back at our year in review and sneaking a peek at what lies ahead in 2016. While 2015 will soon be over, it won’t soon be forgotten, for what a year it has been. BOOKTHUG’S YEAR IN REVIEW New Website and […]
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