For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we are pleased to bring you an excerpt from Aaron Giovannone’s latest collection: The Nonnets, a book-length sequence of “nonnets”—nine-line poems that Giovannone handles […]
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Feverish: In Conversation with Mallory Tater
Vancouver poet Mallory Tater’s debut poetry collection, This Will Be Good, tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As […]
Continue readingFeature Friday: False Friends by Stephen Cain
In this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we’re pleased to bring you an excerpt from False Friends, the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. […]
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 readingFeature Friday: Charm by Christine McNair
A charm can protect, inflict or influence. For this week’s edition of Feature Friday, we’re pleased to bring you an excerpt from Charm, the second poetry collection by Ottawa poet Christine […]
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 readingCurl Up: 5 Long Weekend Reads
Have you been looking forward to the May long weekend to relax, take a trip, visit with friends, or read a good book? Possibly a bit of everything? Whether you […]
Continue readingKicks Just Keep Getting Harder to Find: In Conversation with Stephen Cain
False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term “false friends”—two words from different […]
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 readingFeature Friday: Rag Cosmology by Erin Robinsong
Looking for some weekend reading? BookThug is excited to introduce Feature Friday—each Friday, we’ll feature one book from our current season and include a special excerpt for your reading pleasure. If you’re […]
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