We teamed up with Matthew Stepanic, writer, and poet, as well as co-founder of Glass Buffalo and Glass Bookshop, for today’s gift guide series. Stepanic tells us that, “My main mission on this good green earth is to help as many folks as possible discover that poetry is ... Read more

Today’s ALU Best Bets are for those readers that connect with nature and the world around them while holding a poetic outlook — for the cli-po (climate poetry) reader. How to Hold a Pebble (NeWest Press) by Jaspreet Singh presents intimate engagements with memory, place, ... Read more

The Essential Derk Wynand, selected by John Barton (Porcupine's Quill) includes a body of work that the poet began in the 1970s. While at surface the collection touches on both public and private aspects of daily life, Wynand intelligently delves much deeper into our emotions—mapping ... Read more

Confession time: we may not have been able to stay up through the whole of Sunday's Oscars broadcast, but we sure will be up late reading these three literary follow-ups to three of the winningest films at this year's ceremony.

Lots of poetry for poetry month this week, plus, some novelists as well (one of them writing about poets, so....). Enjoy our coast-to-coast happenings!

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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

This week in book events: in Toronto, the Harbourfront's International Festival of Authors kicks off; GG shortlisted poet Arleen Paré reads with Stephanie Bolster and Monty Reid in Quebec; John Reibetanz reads from his poetry collection at Bookfest Windsor — ... Read more

This week in book events: writers bare it all in Montreal at the Live Nude Writers Event; Coach House Press celebrates its fall launch of books with a party in Toronto; Dawn Durmont launches her novel, Rose's Run, at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon;  I Found It at the ... Read more

We know, we know — you love indie Canadian books, and would love to attend readings and launch parties for new fall books and local authors — but it can be overwhelming, what with the hundreds of events happening all of the time, all over the country.

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Poetry lovers, it's that time of year once again, the most wonderful time of year... it's National Poetry Month! Pardon us for our excitement, but as a group of Canadian literary publishers that has produced 160 poetry collections over the last year alone, NPM is like Christmas, ... Read more