Next up in our book playlist series, we are joined by Carellin Brooks with with tunes for her poetry collection Learned! Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations […]
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Today is the official release date of Carellin Brooks’s saucy debut poetry collection, Learned! Read on to learn all about this new poetry title and its upcoming launch in Vancouver. Happy Book Birthday to Learned by Carellin Brooks! Featured on ‘Most Anticipated’ Fall 2022 Poetry lists from 49th Shelf and CBC Books, this follow up to Brooks’s award-winning debut novel One […]
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Happy Halloween! This year we’re sharing a list of books that offer up nontraditional chills and thrills! We’re skipping the ghosts and ghouls and heading straight for the too-real scares of late capitalism, the horror of petty neighbourly disputes, and media spectacle. The following seven books play with the freaky and the foreboding. They explore […]
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This week’s Fall 2022 Preview spotlights Learned by Carellin Brooks. Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations of mind and body. In these poems, the speaker trembles on the verge of […]
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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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After a brief hiatus, we are back with our On Design series, today featuring the wonderful Gareth Lind. Lind’s designs are famously sleek, a confluence of clean lines and classical typeface, perfectly embodying the books they cloak. A number of our poetry titles—The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe, Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir, Plenitude […]
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