For Indigenous History Month we're featuring books written by Indigenous authors and the people behind them. Today we celebrate Kegedonce Press, an Indigenous-owned and -operated publisher based on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation publishing beautifully ... Read more

One of the highlights of book club is going straight to the source: this week we electronically sat down with the inimitable Ursula Pflug, author of Seeds and Other Stories (Inanna Publications), to chat about dreams, alternate realities, surrealist influences, and more. ... Read more

Transmasculine Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac chats with us for ALU DiscoverVerse about his boisterous, touching, and often funny debut collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world (Kegedonce Press) — which grew from a challenge to write one haiku a day ... Read more

Mixed/adopted Mi’kmaw and Newfoundland poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough took time to chat with us about his debut Crow Gulch (Goose Lane Editions), a poetry collection that attempts to honour and dispel the stigma surrounding the community of Crow Gulch in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. ... Read more

It’s only when I sit down to write up a bit about each book I’ve chosen to include in this list that I notice that these six books share two strong themes. The first relates to memory and remembering. Each book plays with remembering the past and remembering the future. ... Read more

It is so difficult keeping up with the explosion of new authors in the indigenous world these days. What is particularly heartening is the number of award-winning young authors who are women. There is still a great deal of sexism in the industry; however, the industry is beginning ... Read more

Once you read that last chapter of a good book and put it down, there is so much to do and so much to consider. You want to take a moment and decide how it made you feel, or write down your two cents, maybe even cross it off your list and reach for the next book. But my personal ... Read more

Award-winning author Claire Tacon takes us on a road trip in her sophomore novel In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo (Wolsak & Wynn), a charming story about a dad struggling with his daughter's independence. We had the chance to talk with Claire about writing rituals, ... Read more

Lesley Belleau's first book of poetry,  Indianland (ARP Books) is concerned with woman- and motherhood, Indigenous life and politics, nature, longing, and memory. Interspersed with Anishinaabemowin throughout – like the poem "mahwee animikee", below – her collection ... Read more

We love tuning into CBC’s Canada Reads, and this year was no exception. We have some If You Liked x follow up reads to the books championed during the debates.