A National Poetry Month Reading List
This National Poetry Month, we encourage you to judge a book by its cover.
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BookThug’s 2015 Year in Review
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 […]
Continue readingA BookThug’s Guide to the Fall Literary Festival Season
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 […]
Continue readingBookThug Spring 2015 Launch Party: The Ultimate Video Playlist
Clocking in at ten (count-’em, ten!) adventurous, innovative titles, Spring 2015 was BookThug’s biggest season ever. Authors came from far and wide for the Spring Launch Party in Toronto, and BookThug supporters came out in droves to ring in the new season. Happily, our indispensable media guru John Schmidt was there to document the event. ❧ Opening […]
Continue readingHighlights from BookThug’s spring/summer events: Guest blogger Emma Hambly on her time interning at BookThug
Dear blog readers: my name is Emma Hambly and I’m here this week to give a small recap of my time at BookThug. My master’s program at Ryerson allowed us to complete our degree with a placement at a creative company, and I was lucky enough to intern at BookThug. I spent an engrossing two […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Wanda Praamsma interviews Lesley Battler about her poetic debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons
Lesley Battler‘s debut collection Endangered Hydrocarbons channels the poet’s personal experience as an employee of Shell Oil into an ingenious suite of poems confronting the extent and the implications of oil production in Canada. As a veteran of Big Oil, Battler is able to write from the unique perspective of the poet-insider. Appropriating the corporate and scientific language of oil extraction […]
Continue readingInternational Women’s Day 2015: 13 Women of BookThug You Need to Read
Meet the amazing women of BookThug. In honour of International Women’s Day 2015, we’ve put together a recommended reading list of contemporary women writers, both emerging and established, we think you need to read. These 13 brilliant and fierce women push at boundaries in unexpected ways, and take you, the reader, to places you never […]
Continue readingSpring poetry PREVIEW: Introducing Lesley Battler and her spectacular full-length debut, Endangered Hydrocarbons
Selected by BookThug’s poetry editor Phil Hall, Lesley Battler’s first full-length collection of poems Endangered Hydrocarbons developed out of the author’s experience as an employee of Shell Canada, a subsidiary of the multinational Shell Oil Ltd. and one of Canada’s largest integrated oil companies. It was while working at Shell that Battler found herself utterly bombarded by […]
Continue readingVibrant, exciting, and playfully challenging: Meet Our Terrific Spring 2015 season
Vibrant, exciting, and playfully challenging: Meet Our Terrific Spring 2015 season We’re so excited to share our absolutely fabulous spring 2015 lineup. We’re launching 9 new titles that represent a cross-range of poetry, fiction, and entre-genre categories, on subject matter as distinctive as the writers themselves. Each of these works joins in our already existing […]
Continue readingBookThug’s 2014 Year In Review
Like the two-headed god Janus, who sees what’s ahead and what’s behind at the same time, we’re taking a moment this early January to look back at our big exciting year of books, fairs, festivals, anniversaries, etc., and to and talk a bit about what’s next for the small press called BookThug. One brand new thing we can’t wait […]
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