School's almost back in session, and even if you've left your studying days behind you, it can never hurt to get back to the books - genre books, that is. Our Tan Light teaches this crash course on genre using recommendations from across the ALU-niverse.

Today's Poetry Muse's featured poet is Salimah Valiani: activist, researcher, and author of 29 leads to Love (Inanna Publications). In our Q&A, Salimah shares how in her new collection she traces love in 29 different ways, and how her muse for this collection is al-jinn, ... Read more

Today on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Nanci Lee — author of Hsin (Brick Books). Born to a Syrian father and a Chinese mother, who gave her up for adoption, Nanci explores her origins in a compendium of poem fragments where form embraces the process of its unfolding. ... Read more

Today on Poetry Muse we are joined by Michael Fraser, author of  The Day-Breakers (Biblioasis). He shares his night owl creative writing process, how lucky he was having James Deahl as his sagacious poetic guru, and a very detailed list of advice to aspiring poets. 

In Sarah De Leeuw's recently released poetry collection  Lot (Caitlin Press), she returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. In our Q&A discussion, Sarah shares when she was writing this collection ... Read more

Happy World Poetry Day! Here are 9 amazing poetry books to add to your poetry collection!

Always original, Toronto-based Coach House Books is for the reader who likes their literature a little experimental and plenty solid. Printing and producing their own books in their iconic coach house, the press is known for its design and print quality in addition to its roster ... Read more

BEST OF THE BLOG 2021

For Indigenous History Month we're featuring books written by Indigenous authors and the people behind them. Today we celebrate Kegedonce Press, an Indigenous-owned and -operated publisher based on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash First ... Read more

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 ... Read more

At ALU we love bookish roundups and birthdays so we're putting them together and celebrating with a roundup of 6 + 6 books that made an impact on us over the last year. And we're taking 20% off any of our birthday selections for one week (until Sept 22) so you can enjoy them ... Read more