Joy, nostalgia, grief, wonder—good poetry effortlessly evokes mood and atmosphere, taking us elsewhere while guiding us inward. This National Poetry Month, we bring you our In the Mood for Poetry series. Every Friday we will share mood-themed reading lists so you can indulge your highs and lows along with some of our favourite poets. To […]
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And Roses and Roses: A Spring Reading List
It’s officially spring! True to Book*hug form, we’re celebrating with a reading list.
Continue readingPearl Pirie’s the pet radish, shrunken is a finalist for the 2016 Archibald Lampman Award!
Congratulations to Pearl Pirie! Arc Poetry Magazine have announced the 2015 Archibald Lampman Award finalists and we’re thrilled that Pearl is shortlisted for her 3rd full collection, the pet radish, shrunken! Hurray, Pearl! Go radish, go! the pet radish, shrunken deals in the poetics of sound, language, and play. In true Pirie style, this fresh, […]
Continue readingHappy Holidays from BookThug!
Happy Holidays to all you good little BookThug boys and girls out there! From all of us at here at BookThug HQ, we hope that your holidays are merry and bright, and filled with friends, family and books! As a special treat, here’s a new poem from Pearl Pirie, author of the pet radish, shrunken, […]
Continue readingBookThugs Recommend: Summer 2015 Reading Lists
Summer reading is a distinctly marked species in the great genus Reading: a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work. Surly study has its dignities and claims: stiff-backed, hard-seated study, that makes no luxury of books, but quarries them, and digs or blasts material for solid uses. But there must also be […]
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 […]
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