This week on the blog: the ALU Indie Reading Room, author interviews, a stunning debut, and more. 

Drawing from her own lifetime of experiences as a construction worker, Kate Braid brings us her newly published collection  Hammer & Nail: Notes of a Journeywoman (Caitlin Press). We welcome Kate to the ALU blog and chat more about how working in construction sparked her ... Read more

Our final week of #poetrygrrrowl starts fresh with Brenda Leifso's newest Wild Madder (Brick Books), a stunning collection that depicts the sense of wildness in self discovery with poems that dig at motherhood, marriage, and love. Scroll down to read our interview with Brenda ... Read more

In honour of Labour Day yesterday, we’re shining a light on poetry collections about work. With excellent poems about working in anything from from cruise-line hospitality to industrial labour unions, we’re truly thankful that these five poets didn’t quit their day jobs. ... Read more

This week Poetry Cure was just the antidote we needed to the is-it-spring-yet blues and we finally cleared up how to correctly pronounce Pulitzer.

Kate Braid's fifteen-year-career as a carpenter informs much of her new collection Elemental (Caitlin Press), both an ode to nature and a feminist nod to blue-collar tradeswork. Below Kate tells us about a knee surgery that was the impetus for this collection and the most ... Read more

When Rob Taylor was awaiting the arrival of his first child, he took on the task of writing a poem a week during his wife's pregnancy, about her pregnancy. The poems that make up  The News (Gaspereau Press) are a collection from those weeks that contemplate fatherhood and ... Read more

Last year we raised our poetic fists for National Poetry Month with Poets Resist, a month-long celebration of poetry as a form of resistance. This year, we're taking a deep breath and preserving our collective strength with Poetry Cure, a series dedicated to poetry as a ... Read more

ALU presents...time capsule! We're digging up historical and literary dirt through the ages, like which books made waves back then (or hearken back to and capture the spirit of times gone by) and which publishers came on the scene. We started off in the fifties and sixties ... Read more

For World Poetry Day, we wanted to get our form down right, so we asked co-editors Sandy Shreve and Kate Braid of  In Fine Form: A Contemporary Look at Canadian Form Poetry (Caitlin Press) to break it down for us. Below, they lay out the structures of 10 different poetry ... Read more