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 […]
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In Conversation: Jess Taylor and Malcolm Sutton
Jess Taylor’s critically acclaimed debut story collection, Pauls, was named an Amazon.ca Editors’ Best Book of 2015, a National Post “NP99” Best Book of 2015, a Kobo Best Canadian Book […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Jennifer Zilm Discusses Waiting Room
Take a seat in (the) Waiting Room, the first full-length collection of poetry from award-winning writer Jennifer Zilm. Featured in the CBC Books Spring 2016 Books Preview Selection, and named one […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Lisa Gordon speaks to her new chapbook, Moving In With the Dalai Lama
The 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 […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Rachel Rose talks about her new collection Thirteen Ways of Looking at CanLit
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 […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Robert Anderson talks about his new chapbook The Hospital Poems
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 […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Helen Guri discusses her new chapbooks, Here Come the Waterworks and Microphone Lessons for Poets
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 […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Sandra Ridley
Falling – not always a dropping to the ground construed as rhyme not death not a literal fall or heartbreak instead (but) any other form of respective bending. – “A […]
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( The valley carries cemeteries in its mouth, grounds sound to seed and buries it – there is a world and the world inside it – ) –“Once Sun” So […]
Continue readingAuthor in Profile: Michael Blouin
“This is it. Here. Right now.” Michael Blouin’s dream of happiness Michael Blouin is one of BookThug’s two Fall fiction authors, whose book I Don’t Know How to Behave […]
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