Chris Eaton's Symphony No. 3 (Book*hug Press) began as a 'fake' book, but what it became was a decadent elegy for a prodigious composer's lost love. Chris joins us in this ALU Reads the Provinces interview to share more about how the book developed out of a conspiracy theory ... Read more

This week we chatted with four more rad women of poetry for Poetry Grrrowl, got a history lesson in slang expressions, and picked up a book that's part literary thriller and all intersectionality.

Named the Best Poetry of 2018 by The New York Times, Amanda Jernigan's Years, Months, and Days (Biblioasis) transforms Die Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung—a collection of Protestant hymns—into sparse, but evocative lyric poems that meditate on the connection between ... Read more

This National Poetry Month we're shouting it out to all the rad women of poetry who write in all kinds of spaces and styles and explore all kinds of themes. Poetry Grrrowl is a raised fist and high-five to those women who make us better readers and thinkers. Join us here on ... Read more

This week we obsessively followed our hashtag #CarryOnBooks after our successful landing at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, got a taste of some new poetry, a follow-up read, and discovered a debut author.

Bridging secular spirituality and holy reverence with the commonalities of life, death, love, and hope, Amanda Jernigan’s Years, Months, and Days (Biblioasis) explores the connection between hymn and poem, recalling the spare beauty of Marilynne Robinsons’s novels or ... Read more

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

When Rob Taylor was awaiting the arrival of his first child, he took on the task of writing a poem a week during his wife's pregnancy, about her pregnancy. The poems that make up  The News (Gaspereau Press) are a collection from those weeks that contemplate fatherhood and ... Read more

Holy toledo: our 13 featured book events this week are truly coast to coast to coast: from Victoria, to Halifax, to Whitehorse! Bundle up (unless you live on the West Coast, in which case, stop making the rest of us jealous) and head out to one (or all!) of the great events ... Read more