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Poetry Express: Molly Cross-Blanchard + Exhibitionist
In her debut collection Exhibitionist (Coach House Books), Métis poet Molly Cross-Blanchard reckons with a devastating break-up. A saucy mix of love poems, break-up poems, and musings on sexuality culminate in a brutally honest and funny collection of sorry-not-sorry confessional poetry. Below, Molly Cross-Blanchard chats with us about writing poetry through a soul-crushing break-up, shame and artistic breakthroughs, and dedicating…
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Poetry Express: Christian McPherson + Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy
Christian McPherson joins us for another day’s ride on the Poetry Express with his refreshingly humorous collection Walking on the Beaches of Temporal Candy (At Bay Press)—capturing expressions on all of life’s most fleeting and truthful moments.In our Q&A with Christian, he shares more about this collection with its poems born out of the existential…
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Poetry Express: This Is How It Is + Sharon King-Campbell
In her debut collection This Is How It Is (Breakwater Books), Newfoundland-based poet Sharon King-Campbell subverts history to explore our environmental crisis, the previously silent voices of our collective pasts, and the interconnectedness of all things. Nature and its power are ever present, connected to fertility, interpersonal relationships, and experiences within and beyond the human. Read on for…
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Poetry Express: Greg Santos + Ghost Face
Combining the forces of poetry and memoir, Greg Santos’ Ghost Face (DC Books) is a personal collection that delves into reflection on the experience of growing up as a Cambodian child adopted by Canadian parents.We chat with Greg about how having children of his own helped him to feel comfortable in reclaiming his heritage, how…
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Poetry Express: Jessi MacEachern+ A Number of Stunning Attacks
In her debut A Number of Stunning Attacks (Invisible Publishing), Jessi MacEachern delivers a collection of poems about gendered existence and dream that contribute to the ongoing association of fragmented forms and women’s writing. Evocative of the styles of Nicole Brossard and Anne Michaels, the poems make use of space on the page to elicit a…
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Poetry Express: Derk Wynand + The Essential Derk Wynand
The Essential Derk Wynand, selected by John Barton (Porcupine’s Quill) includes a body of work that the poet began in the 1970s. While at surface the collection touches on both public and private aspects of daily life, Wynand intelligently delves much deeper into our emotions—mapping the human heart though all aspects of love.Read on for…
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Poetry Express: Leslie Roach + Finish this Sentence
In her debut collection Finish this Sentence (Mawenzi House), Montreal-born, Ottawa-based poet Leslie Roach uncovers her personal experience living with racism and its distorting effects on the Self. Through her poetry, Leslie reclaims her power: she is neither the conditioning nor the negative thoughts that racism provokes.Read on for our Q&A with Leslie, in which…
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Poetry Express: Jean Eng + Festival of All Souls
Spanning a period of 25 years, the poems in Jean Eng’s Festival of All Souls (Inanna Publications) explore the life of an Asian woman born in Canada and the experience of living between two cultures where heritage, gender and values serve to enrich personal vision.In our Q&A with Jane, she shares more about how a…
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Poetry Express: Ash Winters + Run Riot
During a ninety-day stay at a Vancouver rehab centre, Ash Winters wrote a poem a day—a body of work that would later become their debut collection Run Riot (Caitlin Press). In this vulnerable, powerful portrait of the struggle against addiction, Ash takes the reader through moments of determination, anger, hilarity, and heartbreak. Read on for our Q&A with Ash…
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Poetry Express: Leah Horlick + Moldovan Hotel
We welcome Leah Horlick to our Poetry Express series with her collection Moldovan Hotel (Brick Books), in which she explores the complicated history behind the displacement of her Jewish ancestors, and the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust that extends itself through conscious and subconscious worlds.Read on for our Q&A with Leah where she shares more…
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Poetry Express: Poems for Every Mood
BEST OF THE BLOG 2021This National Poetry Month on All Lit Up we bring you Poetry Express, a month-long series dedicated to poetry as a mode of travel—anywhere, anytime. In a year of isolation, poetry, more than ever, is connection, expression, and reflection. Poetry takes us places, both undiscovered and revisited.Join us here on the…
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Poetry Express: Afua Cooper + Black Matters
Poetry Express kicks off with Afua Cooper, Halifax’s seventh Poet Laureate, whose collection Black Matters (Roseway Publishing) was developed in collaboration with photographer Wilfried Raussert to showcase everyday Black experiences. Winner of the Portia White Prize in 2020 and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award in 2021, Black Matters is a visual and textual conversation that amplifies…
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Test Kitchen: Eggs Florentine
We’ve got your brunch plans right here with a tasty Eggs Florentine recipe from Bobbi Pike’s East Coast Keto 2 (Breakwater Books). In this follow-up to East Coast Keto, Bobbi Pike and her husband return with over 100 new ketofied recipes for all sorts of delicious apps, entrees and desserts. Read on for an easy-to-make…
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Character Study Double Bill: Jesus on the Dashboard + Cam & Beau
We recommend extra popcorn and snacks for this double bill of Character Study, in celebration of two books that were announced as semi-finalists for the 2021 Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition! Below authors Lisa Murphy-Lamb (Jesus on the Dashboard, Stonehouse Publishing) and Maria Cichosz (Cam & Beau, Now or Never Publishing) help dream up all-star cast…
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The Great Winfield Chicken Coop Disaster
It was a rainy morning and we hoped the tarp would hold. It was, after all, just a little too small to tuck completely round the giant, so, as we wound along the scenic highway, I kept a weather eye backward, in case the billowing ripped loose the straps, loosening a sail big enough to sweep our truck…