Dennis Cooley's The Muse Sings (At Bay Press) gives new lease to the relationship between poet and muse. Below, Cooley shares more about what brings "oomph" to his writings and the challenges he took on to overcome the well-known trope of the muse, using the conventional ... Read more

 For the giftee who loves a good life-affirming phone sesh with their BFF, today's BINGEMAS picks are just the right kind of reads to remind them of their worth in gold.

Let’s start with where my thought process begins. I am waiting in a sun-baked parking lot at the edge of the Leamington, Ontario ferry dock. July heat is cooking the rows of cars and trucks around me. Around us, Waabishkiigo Gchigami is lightly rolling waves into shore and ... Read more

In this dark but hopeful collection The Brightest Thing (Caitlin Press), poet Ruth Daniell takes an honest look at love, relationships and the fairy-tale notion of "happily-ever-after" from a modern day perspective. We sat down with Ruth to talk more about this rad collection ... Read more

The 21^st century is marked by our relationship to and dependence on oil. Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons (BookThug) is fuelled by just that as it extracts from texts generated by an oil company, and splices together with language found in video games and magazines ... Read more

Howdy, lit-lovers! While we're sad to see a successful Ottawa VerseFEST wrap up today, there's a bevy of great book events to console you through the week.

Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including ... Read more

Fiction is many things, but let’s agree that at its most basic, it’s nothing more than the frenzied pursuit of truth via the use of the made-up. Novels do this on a macro scale, and while the short story has similar aims to the novel – to access truth through fiction – ... Read more

Mathew Henderson's debut collection of poetry, The Lease, has gone gangbusters. It was published last fall by Coach House Books, and it has really struck a chord with readers everywhere. The New York Times compares Henderson to Raymond Carver; The Millions calls it "a sneakily ... Read more

We’re kicking off our 30-Day Coast-to-Coast Poetry Project (and, forgive us, but we may refer to this as CoCoPoPro). By the end of the month we'll have shared a new poem every day from a different poet, collection, and independent Canadian publisher.