For this edition of Poetry in Motion, award-winning poet and novelist Carolyn Marie Souaid introduces the breadth and depth of 25 years of writing poetry, encapsulated in a new anthology of her work,  This Side of Light (Signature Editions). Read more about Carolyn's "concept ... 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. 

Today on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Kevin Bushell, author of  Invisible Sea (DC Books). He shares in our Q&A session how inspiration comes to him, how he started writing his poetry collection, and a poem from his collection. 

In Gillian Sze's Quiet Night Think (ECW Press), Gillian invites readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation. In this week's Poetry in Motion feature, Gillian shares how the birth of her son pushed her to think about her own beginnings and start ... Read more

All Lit Up's Summer Book Club continues this month with another brand new read: Rahela Nayebzadah's Monster Child from Wolsak and Wynn/Buckrider Books sparked us from its very first pages. Today we talk to Paul Vermeersch, senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn, about publishing the ... Read more

In the glow of a phone, through sleepless evenings, Dallas Hunt worked on what would become his newest poetry collection Creeland (Nightwood Editions), an unwavering affirmation for his connection to home in Treaty Eight (northern Alberta) and the inherent inability of colonial ... Read more

Paul Vermeersch’s poetry has always been fascinated with the question of what makes us human. From the human body to the human mind, from our place in society to our place in the cosmos, Vermeersch’s latest book Shared Universe: New & Selected Poems 1995-2020  (ECW ... Read more

Kicking off our Indie Reading Room this fall is L'nuk (Mi'kmaq) artist and author Michelle Sylliboy who in her debut collection of poetry  Kiskajeyi: I AM READY (Rebel Mountain Press) preserves the complex L'nuk language, Komqwejwi’kasikl through word art and paired ... Read more

In 2015, Steven Heighton travelled to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece to enlist as a volunteer.  Reaching Mithymna (Biblioasis) is his firsthand account of his experience working at an ad hoc transit camp and an engaged exploration of the borders ... Read more

Author of the collection For It Is a Pleasure and A Surprise to Breathe (Wolsak and Wynn), award-winning poet Gary Barwin joins us to talk more about his own fluid definition of ritual, the wonders of language and the "hurly-burly" of life as it's happening over any kind ... Read more