About the Author
Lorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier has received numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, for her fifteen books of poetry, which include The Blue Hour of the Day, What the Living Won’t Let Go, Everything Arrives at the Light, and Inventing the Hawk. She is also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor of several anthologies. She lives in Saanich, British Columbia.
Renowned writer Louise Bernice Halfe, also known by the Cree name Sky Dancer, was named Canada's new Parliamentary Poet Laureate earlier this year. For National Poetry Month, we're thrilled to celebrate Louise and her newly published books from two independent Canadian publishers. ... Read more
With a balanced mix of humour and emotion, Susan Alexander's Nothing You Can Carry (Thistledown Press) expresses the holiness of place, obscured by the dark cloud that is the future, looming over every aspect of the human life as a result of the climate crisis we are facing. ... Read more
Spanning a period of 25 years, the poems in Jean Eng's Festival of All Souls (Inanna Publications) explore the life of an Asian woman born in Canada and the experience of living between two cultures where heritage, gender and values serve to enrich personal vision.
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Poetry Express kicks off with Afua Cooper, Halifax’s seventh Poet Laureate, whose collection Black Matters (Roseway Publishing) was developed in collaboration with photographer Wilfried Raussert to showcase everyday Black experiences. Winner of the Portia White Prize ... Read more
With the chaos of the presidential debates in full swing, we turned our sights to things that soothe us: books! Scroll on to find out what we were up to this week.
Today in the ALU DiscoverVerse, we welcome poet Catherine Hunter, author of St. Boniface Elegies (Signature Editions), a collection that traces a poet's relationships with her family and her community. Below, Catherine shares more about the grip that poetry has had, and ... Read more
The impetus behind Spencer Sheehan-Kalina's children's book Nootka Sound in Harmony (Rebel Mountain Press) came on a paddling trip around Nootka Sound in British Columbia when he discovered his love for Vancouver Island's rugged north. Below we chat with Spencer about his ... 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 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
In her latest Little Red (Mother Tongue Publishing), BC poet Kerry Gilbert examines the Big Bad Wolves of society with a contemporary verse tale of Little Red Riding Hood, one of the most well-read stories of missing and murdered girls and, more broadly, violence against ... Read more
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