This week we launched ALU DiscoverVerse: Choose Your Own Poetry, a Canadian poetry binge, for #NPM20. Scroll on for details (+20% off featured books), a map of Canadian booksellers offering delivery, and more. 

Poet nathan dueck joins us for ALU DiscoverVerse, a month-long poetry binge: we chat about his playful, pop-culture-inspired collection  A Very Special Episode (Wolsak and Wynn), why silence makes him deeply uncomfortable, didactic German drama, and what a Santa's hat and Gideon’s ... Read more

This National Poetry Month is an action-packed celebration of twenty-four poets who write in all kinds of spaces and explore all kinds of styles and themes that delight, offer reflection, and soothe our spirits. Join us here on the blog throughout the month for our feature poets, ... Read more

This week we got our design nerd on, learned about the process behind bringing a novel into braille, recommended a debut novel, and more. 

In this Beautiful Books feature, designer Jared Shapiro talks to us about the joys of getting carried away in his creative design for nathan dueck's A Very Special Episode (Wolsak and Wynn) – the result of which is an intelligent use of font and form that elevates nathan's ... Read more