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 plan to curl up with a book at the cottage, in the city, or en route to a destination, BookThug has you covered. Here are […]
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Welcome to the May edition of Book Notes! This month, the staff at BookThug HQ share our current fave reads. Let us know if you’ve read any of these books too, and if so, what you thought of them. If you haven’t read them yet then we highly recommend you add them all to your […]
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The May long weekend is a highlight of the spring for many of us, and whether you’re relaxing at a cottage or unwinding in the city, a book that you just can’t put down is always a welcome addition to your plans. Whether you like funny books or thrilling books, novels or poetry, here are five books that […]
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BookThug is welcoming some new interns this month: Kelly Duval and Stacey Seymour! We (Kelly and Stacey) are MA students at Ryerson’s Literatures of Modernity (MA) program, and we’ll be managing the blog for the next several weeks, as well as helping out at the BookThug headquarters. We’re both really excited to be here, and […]
Continue readingDear 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 readingThe poems of Moving In With the Dalai Lama, the debut chapbook by Lisa Gordon, hide in the interstices of language, and are anchored in the tentative relationships that surround us—so in a sense they aren’t anchored at all. A poetics of indeterminacy is here, a call & response as in ghazals, yet a call […]
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at CanLit, the new chapbook by Vancouver’s Poet Laureate Rachel Rose burns fiercely in its righteous fury at the unbridled misogyny, homophobia and racism that is quietly condoned in our literary community. Here, critical bigotry becomes a tool of analysis, a text in which Rachel Rose romps and riffs, deconstructs and […]
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In Robert Anderson’s debut chapbook The Hospital Poems, the ward becomes the world, becomes the word, becomes the war. Drawing the reader into the strained intimacies of hospital halls and personal and social breakdown, Anderson’s fragmented, fragmenting poems are “spills/spells of narrative” that brilliantly sabotage the institutional from the inside. Selected for BookThug’s Summer Chapbook […]
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This month BookThug is launching two chapbooks by poet Helen Guri. Of her poetry chapbook Here Come the Waterworks, Helen writes, “Here come the waterworks” is in most contexts an accusation that someone is about to cry profusely in order to manipulate people. But since anyone who is paying attention ought to be crying profusely […]
Continue readingSaturday November 23 Launch: Dragnet Issue 9 | 8:00 p.m. | Smiling Buddha Bar, 961 College Street | Featuring readings from Evan Munday, Catriona Wright, and Bardia Sinaee | $5 Sunday November 24 Toronto Poetry Slam | 8:00 p.m., sign up at 7:30 | The Drake Underground, | Twelve slam poets compete against each other […]
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