Today's Try Poetry poet is ReLit award finalist David Ly and his latest collection Dream of Me as Water (Palimpsest Press). David tells us about poetry as escape and shares the sinuous concrete poem "Eels" from the book.

When it comes to discovering (or rediscovering) a love of poetry, there really is no time like the present. The unique despair that is being a human amid rising inequality and a pending climate collapse can be captured by poetry, sure, and also offset by it; the poets, in other ... Read more

Everyone has a literary love language; the prose, genres, and topics that get your heart pumping. When it’s the right book, you just know. In the spirit of Valentine's Day, we've put together a quiz that will help you identify your lit love language, and recommend some books ... Read more

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Named a 2021 Rising Star by the Writers' Trust of Canada, Eddy Boudel Tan is today's All Lit Up Gift Guide recommender sharing five thoughtful must-read picks for "the dreamer who imagines what might be possible if only society would collapse" to "anyone who’s ever felt victimized ... Read more

Vancouver-based writer Jen Sookfong Lee embraces personal lyric in her poetry debut with The Shadow List (Wolsak & Wynn), an intoxicating collection vivid and frank, that calls us to question the politics of who gets to choose and who doesn't. In language that is gripping ... Read more

In her debut collection The Only Card in a Deck of Knives (Wolsak & Wynn) Lauren Turner considers societal impulses to reject sick women: these fierce poems told from the perspective of a twentysomething female speaker with a terminal disease juxtapose the violence of a ... Read more