How can poetry set you free? Slide down our National Poetry Month series rabbit hole with Shani Mootoo’s phenomenal response to the query: “Discussions about, and answers to big questions, are – for most of us – a quick and easy click away. How sweet to slide down those rabbit holes. I find that the […]
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Canada Day Long Weekend Sale! Save 25% off all available titles from July 1 to 3, 2022 at 11:59 pm. Use code CANADA2022 at checkout. *Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases. SHOP NOW _________________________________________________________________________________________ ???? Read Across Canada! ???? Travel Canada this long weekend with some homegrown literature! This curated list of books rooted in cities and places is an ode to the […]
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With Father’s Day just around the corner, we’ve put together a list of books that the Dad in your life will love. This eclectic selection of literary and poetic titles—vast in both meaning and mileage—take us to outer-space and back, and through questions of how to live, love, and connect. Many of these books feature […]
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This Mother’s Day, treat Mom to the gift of reading! Save 25% off all available titles from May 3 to May 8, 2022, at 11:59pm. Use code MOTHERSDAY22 at checkout. *Discount applies to print books, eBooks, and audiobooks. Excludes all forthcoming fall 2022 releases. ❧ Want to take advantage of the sale, but not sure […]
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Feeling sentimental? Wistful? Next up in our In the Mood for Poetry series is nostalgia. Lean into the feeling with these poetry collections that map personal and geographical histories, and draw odes to moments lost, longed for, and resurrected. These books are filled with memory traps. They guide author and reader alike through the bittersweet […]
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Poetry, like any art form, is a practice. To be a poet means mastering a certain discipline, finding one’s vocation and siphoning inspiration into form. This National Poetry Month we are inviting Book*hug poets to the blog to discuss their creative practice and some of the beliefs and influences that animate their final works. Read […]
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Today, we celebrate the release of Cane | Fire by internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo. This collection of poems navigates a complex communion of past and present, drawing on autobiography and the shifting geographies of Mootoo’s life. Read on to learn all about this immersive new work and for information on upcoming […]
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Next up in our Spring 2022 Preview series comes internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo’s Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry. Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves […]
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Today, we’re excited to reveal our Spring 2022 season, featuring eight titles we’re know you’ll adore. Fiction The Employees by Olga Ravn, Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken Literature in Translation Series | Literary Fiction | Science Fiction $20.00 | On Sale March 8, 2022 | Available Now for Pre-order Shortlisted for the 2021 […]
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All of us at Book*hug send our warmest congratulations to the inimitable Shani Mootoo, who received an honorary doctorate from Western University during fall convocation on October 22, 2021, in recognition of her creative achievements. As well as being a brilliant and celebrated writer and gifted visual artist, Mootoo is a graduate of Western’s BFA […]
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