In Review: The Week of January 28th

On the Blog

~ We stopped griping about the TTC for a minute to enjoy Adrian de Leon’s TTC-inspired Rouge (Mawenzi House), a poetry collection that recalls Toronto’s deadly mass shooting in 2014~ We feasted on more than just cold-weather-comfort food with a helping of food-covered books.~ We rounded up 8 books in celebration of Black History Month.~ Peter Norman shares the inspiration behind his collection Some of Use and Most of You Are Dead (Wolsak and Wynn), truth in poetry, and why we should beware the sequined lie.  

Around the Web

~ This year’s Canada Reads finalists are indie dominant: The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press); Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books); and Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung (Freehand Books).~ Sci-fi writer Suzette Haden Elgin tested out a feminist language in her 1984 novel after she was intrigued by the concept of a language devoid of patriarchal ideas. ~ Young women poets are making waves and changing the rules of poetry.

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What Else We’re Reading

We picked up Canada Reads finalist Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung (Freehand Books).