Our top choice for a read heading into this weekend? Debut novelist Tanya Turton's  Jade Is a Twisted Green (Dundurn Press), a sparkling coming-of-age novel about simultaneously navigating loss and Black, queer, and immigrant identity.

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch shares their second collection  The Good Arabs (Metonymy Press) in this latest instalment of Poetry Muse. They discuss working amidst other artists and creators, exploring the tensions and linkages between the micro and macro, and share their ... Read more

In celebration of Black History Month, we're shining a spotlight on some stellar Black authors (and additional author contributors) to keep your eye out for across genres. 

In her hybrid book of lyric essay and prose poetry,  Where Things Touch (Book*hug Press), poet and physician-in-training Bahar Orang considers the meanings and possibilities of beauty, reimagining what it really is and how we define it. A thoughtful, meditative book that ... Read more

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.

—Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck”

I think you can hardly be a poet and a feminist (at least of my generation) without holding ... Read more

From feline some cat-covered books to indulging our design-geek tendencies this week was a feast for our eyes. Scroll on for that and much more!

In this expanded Canadian edition, Lyric Sexology Vol 1. (Metonymy Press), Trish Salah uses poetic sequence to inspire new and creative thought about the languages in which trans sexuality or transgender has been previously imagined. In today's poetry grrrrowl Q&A, Trish ... Read more

In her third book of poetry Q & A (Book*hug Press) Adrienne Gruber delivers a poetic memoir about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum after the birth of her first child. Divided into chronological sections on each time period, the collection explores the history of pregnancy ... Read more

Poetry Grrrowl begins with debut poet Shazia Hafiz Ramji whose already garnered a lot of attention with her book  Port of Being (Invisible Publishing), a collection that mines speech from the city streets and the internet to explore the intersection between the personal and ... Read more

Poetry Cure begins with acclaimed poet Lorna Crozier whose poems, to quote the Globe and Mail, "are always a reason for rejoicing.” The poems in her newest collection What the Soul Doesn't Want (Freehand Books) speak to aging and grief, observing and drawing strength from ... Read more