Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with Kate Hargreaves, author of tend. A much anticipated follow-up to Leak, tend is a visceral and playful poetry collection which explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. […]
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Next up in our official book playlist series, we welcome Kate Hargreaves’s tend! Visceral and playful, tend reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. It explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. Find Hargreaves’s tend playlist below, or […]
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Today, we are celebrating the release of tend by Kate Hargreaves! Read on to learn all about this witty collection of poems which finds beauty and solace in the ordinary. Happy Book Birthday to tend by Kate Hargreaves! A much-anticipated follow up to her poetry collection Leak, and a Fall 2022 Poetry Selection from CBC Books and 49th Shelf, tend explores the small pleasures and discomforts […]
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Next up in our Fall 2022 Preview Series comes tend, a visceral and playful sophomore poetry collection from Kate Hargreaves which reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. tend explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. These poems […]
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Today, we are excited to reveal Book*hug’s upcoming Fall 2022 season! Our lineup includes eleven fantastic titles we’re sure you’ll love. Read on for all the details, including on sale dates, pre-order information, and news about our Fall 2022 pre-order sale, which begins today! FALL 2022 FICTION Junie by Chelene Knight Literary Fiction | Historical […]
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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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In this edition of BookThug’s Best Reads, we turn things over to our editors and staff to reflect on their year in reading. Here are our favourite books we read in 2015, with contributions from Jay MillAR and Hazel Millar, Malcolm Sutton, Phil Hall, Ruth Zuchter, Emma Hunter, Shankari Mano, and even our resident Junior […]
Continue readingThe multi-talented Kate Hargreaves (aka, Pain Eyre), author of Leak (BookThug, Fall 2014), is also an extremely talented book designer (not to mention a skilled roller derby player-now do you get the Pain Eyre reference?). Formerly the in-house book designer at Biblioasis, Hargreaves’ designs will be instantly familiar to many, given the fact that she designed TWO […]
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This year, thanks to the Twitter campaigns #ReadWomen and #ReadWomen2015, book lovers everywhere have been encouraged to read more books written by women. We fully support such a great and worthwhile endeavour and hope that readers everywhere will take up the challenge. Here is just a sampling of BookThug’s #ReadWomen recommended reading list of compelling […]
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The fall book season has arrived, and cities far and wide will soon be abuzz with literary festival fun. Starting this month, BookThugs will be popping up at book festivals and fairs across the country. Following, we’ve compiled this helpful guide to find your local literary event and the BookThugs who’ll be attending. A BOOKTHUG’S GUIDE TO THE FALL 2015 LITERARY […]
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