With spring comes National Poetry Month, an ALU favourite, and a time for us to get even more poetically charged. (Or in this year’s case, poetically-political...and that’s all we’ll reveal for now.) So in advance of our NPM series on Monday, we’re throwing it back to ... Read more

Tomorrow marks the beginning of one of our favourite months of the year: April is National Poetry Month. Working exclusively with independent Canadian publishers means that we are constantly exposed to a diverse range of poetic voices, which our publishers work tirelessly to ... Read more

Like all good things, eventually National Poetry Month must come to an end for another year. But we couldn't end our Poetry Primer series without a big finish, so here it is: George Bowering, winner of the Governor General's Award for both poetry and fiction, Canada's first ... Read more

Sheila Stewart has had her poetry widely published in literary journals like The Malahat Review, Grain, Descant, and The New Quarterly, as well as in her own collections, A Hat to Stop a Train (Wolsak & Wynn, 2003) and The Shape of a Throat (Signature Editions, 2012). Sheila's ... Read more

National Poetry Month will soon be drawing to a close and we intend to finish it out with a few more fantastic Poetry Primer picks. Lucky number fourteen of our established poets is Jim Johnstone. He is the author of four collections of poetry, including his latest, Dog ... Read more

Established poet and women's activist Sonja Greckol ( Skein of Days, Pedlar, 2014) highlights the corporeality of Kate Hargreaves' debut poetry collection,  Leak (BookThug, 2014), as her poetry primer pick.

Today's poetry primer pick is brought to us by the letter W: W as in Warner, or Patrick Warner, and his choice for an emerging poet to watch: Shoshanna Wingate.

Stan Rogal is both a poet and playwright, having published 19 books in his long career. His most recent collection of poetry, After Words (Guernica Editions, 2014), is a tip of the hat to all those that have influenced him over the years. As Rogal is looking back, we're looking ... Read more

The eighth edition of our Poetry Primer series is brought to you by the most recent winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, Arleen Paré. She's chosen fellow Brick poet and Victorian Karen Enns as an emerging poet to watch.

Damian Rogers is entrenched in Canadian poetry as the poetry editor at House of Anansi and as the creative director of Poetry in Voice, a national recitation contest for Canadian high school students. What better person to select an emerging new voice for our National Poetry ... Read more