After 19 healing days of the #ALUpoetrycure, we sure could eat. Tightrope Books' Best Canadian Poetry series editor Anita Lahey joins us to make a perfectly balanced poetry stew; detailing the common and contrasting themes in the poems that make up the series' 10th Anniversary ... Read more

We started off this month with Poetry Cure, a series dedicated to poetry as self-care, revisited some historical literary movements (postmodernism, what's up), and cheered for some indie presses that made the 2018 Alberta Literary Awards shortlist. 

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

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

Beth Goobie's breathing at dusk is a response to her 1994 collection Scars of Light – both collections address the author's harrowing abuse at the hands of her parents, but breathing at dusk reveals the poet in recovery, not anguish. Beth shares her journey to healing ... Read more

Did someone order a literary festival? There are a whopping four this week, plus tons of launches and readings (if those weren't enough!).

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

Happy birthday to us! Usually, we ring in our big day with a look ahead to books we can't wait to read in Fall, but since we've already tackled that, we're counting to three with:

1. Looking back on some fave memories;
2. Sharing 20 books we've loved over the years (+ making ... Read more

This week we cheered for two books on the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist: Silvija by Sandra Ridley (BookThug) and Injun by Jordan Abel (Talonbooks) who ultimately won the prize. We also shared eco-tips for reading green, maundered with a new poetry collection, ... Read more

We're kicking off June with a summer-inspired cocktail and Lorna Crozier's brand new collection  What the Soul Doesn't Want (Freehand Books); a collection full of Crozier's signature wit and imagery that explores aging, grief, and the wonder of the natural world with quirk ... Read more

A sassy, smart debut collection from Rhonda Ganz,  Frequent, small loads of laundry (Mother Tongue Publishing) is all about the ways in which we behave in moments of intimacy and domesticity. Ganz strings together the ordinary with the absurd and hangs up to dry snapshots ... Read more