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New poetry by award-winning writer combines blue collar tradeswork with unapologetic feminism and untameable nature of BC.Usually, we take for granted or plain ignore the Earth we walk on, the Sky above, the Water we drink and bathe in or that falls as rain, the Fire we assume ... Read more
New poetry by award-winning writer combines blue collar tradeswork with unapologetic feminism and untameable nature of BC.Usually, we take for granted or plain ignore the Earth we walk on, the Sky above, the Water we drink and bathe in or that falls as rain, the Fire we assume for heat, and the Wood that makes up our landscape and building materials. But over fifteen years as a construction carpenter, Kate Braid began to pay more attention to the materials she worked with and depended upon. Out of these she has crafted an intimate picture of what it is like to be wholly engaged with the elemental materials of earth, sky, water, fire and wood that we depend upon every day. ELEMENTAL is a poignant, intelligent collection that asks us to look more closely at ourselves and the details that construct our rich and delicate world.
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Debut playwright Bilal Baig of the emotional heavy-hitter Acha Bacha (Playwrights Canada Press) — a play about the intersections between queerness, gender identity and Islamic culture in the Pakistani diaspora — sits down with cover designer Harmeet Rehal to talk ... Read more
Drawing from her own lifetime of experiences as a construction worker, Kate Braid brings us her newly published collection Hammer & Nail: Notes of a Journeywoman (Caitlin Press). We welcome Kate to the ALU blog and chat more about how working in construction sparked her ... Read more
Brand new to our bookshelves is The Hammer of the Witches (Caitlin Press), Kelly Rose Pflug-Back's first full-length collection of poetry. With a dark and stormy mix of emotion and image, the collection contemplates belief, power and fear with a streak of magic that will have ... Read more
In this edition of First Fiction Friday, we take a peak beneath the cover of Kevin Lambert's prize-winning debut novel You Will Love What You Have Killed, recently published in a new english translation from Biblioasis. This book is many things – a ghost-filled queer coming-of-age ... Read more
If you loved our August Book Club read Seeds and Other Stories by Ursula Pflug, we've got a few recommendations to keep the last vestiges of your summer full of the fantastical.
This month Off/Kilter sits down with Madeline Sonik to chat about her newest short story collection Fontainebleau (Anvil Press). Set in the mythical city of the same name, Fontainebleau is a place where something dark lurks – from poison in the soil all the way up to something ... Read more
One of the highlights of book club is going straight to the source: this week we electronically sat down with the inimitable Ursula Pflug, author of Seeds and Other Stories (Inanna Publications), to chat about dreams, alternate realities, surrealist influences, and more. ... Read more
Fred Wah's Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks) is is a lifelong poem project that responds to readings in contemporary writing, art, and ideas from the past forty years. It works through language as a practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens ... Read more
Not even quarantine life or Zoom hiccups could stop us from serving up our annual summer book club with a discussion of Ursula Pflug's fantastical and magical collection of short stories Seeds and Other Stories (Inanna Publications). Read on for the spoiler-filled highlights ... Read more
Today's Where in Canada takes us to Scarborough, Ontario—the setting for Cordelia Strube's Misconduct of the Heart (ECW Press). With its stark mix of hills, ravines, greenery and...strip malls, Scarborough offers a contrasting sense of place for main character Stevie, who, ... Read more
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