Today, Sandra Ridley is taking us behind “Torchlight,” a poem from Vixen! Torchlight, as in an illumination in the dark. As experienced by the one who holds the torch? Or as experienced by the one caught in its light? The centered visual element of each page of this sequence in Vixen is the beam of […]
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We are excited to announce the release of Vixen by Sandra Ridley! Happy Book Birthday to Vixen by Sandra Ridley! This week, we are thrilled to welcome another incredible poetry book from our fall catalogue: Vixen by award-winning author Sandra Ridley. Her latest collection is the result of a haunting chance encounter with a fox […]
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Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption. This statement from Sandra Ridley’s Silvija could serve as a thesis for today’s In the Mood for Poetry feature, which highlights collections that […]
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New book deals! Book*hug Press has acquired new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles to be published in 2023 and 2024, by Jess Taylor, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Anne Cathrine Bomann, Caroline Dawson, Lisa Robertson, Kate Cayley, Sandra Ridley, and Chantal Neveu & Erin Moure. FICTION Book*hug Press has acquired North American rights to Jess Taylor’s PLAY. […]
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Today, Book*hug Press is excited to present VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland and a roundtable-style interview with some of the contributors.
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Our National Poetry Month Celebration continues with Sandra Ridley.
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Every year, April 7th is known as World Health Day. It is a day of spreading global health awareness, started by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is important to spread the word and get involved in this campaign to keep everyone well-informed and to get help to those who need it. Every year the […]
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Sandra Ridley’s latest book, Silvija, is a sequence of five feverish elegies which combine narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. Pulsing […]
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Today, we continue to look back on our year in reading. For Part 2 of BookThugs Read, we’re turning things over to some of our wonderful authors to reflect on their favourite reads of 2016. While the year has certainly been a rough ride for many, there is no denying that 2016 was a great […]
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We’re revving up the engine again today as we continue on the second half of our Summer Reading Recommendation Road Trip. Today, we head out from Ontario, and then travel west, making stops along the way in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. Let’s hit the road with these five BookThug Summer Road Trip picks! […]
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