This week on Poetry Muse we are joined by Heather Nolan, author of  Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig (Breakwater Books). Heather shares a list of poetry collections she admires, her advice to aspiring poets, and how she began writing this collection while travelling ... Read more

Today on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Kevin Bushell, author of  Invisible Sea (DC Books). He shares in our Q&A session how inspiration comes to him, how he started writing his poetry collection, and a poem from his collection. 

This month on All Lit Up, we're putting a spotlight on books by and about women and the people behind them. Today's publisher in profile is Brick Books, a fiercely independent poetry press now owned exclusively by women, that offers beautifully designed poetry books by established ... Read more

The main character in St. John's-based author, musician, and CBC Poetry Prize longlister Heather Nolan's debut novella This is Agatha Falling (Pedlar Press) is a product of her environment and her past, calling up the notion of our connection to physical place. Below, Heather ... 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

Our final week of #poetrygrrrowl starts fresh with Brenda Leifso's newest Wild Madder (Brick Books), a stunning collection that depicts the sense of wildness in self discovery with poems that dig at motherhood, marriage, and love. Scroll down to read our interview with Brenda ... Read more

Poet John Reibetanz's collection  Afloat (Brick Books) explores humanity's relationship to water: how we use it, are threatened by it, corrupt it, and are made whole by it. John calls our relationship with water the "natural metaphor for the reciprocal relationship between ... Read more

In Caribou Run (Goose Lane Editions), Richard Kelly Kemick's debut poetry collection, we glimpse the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic through its annual cycle of migration, exploring what we share with this creature and what remains ineffable. Running the gamut ... Read more

Last week we included Karyotype, the debut collection of poetry by Kim Trainor, as part of our new year's resolution to read more new, emerging, diverse voices. Not only did the content of this collection — an investigation of human values and culture through the physical — ... Read more

Lots to do in this week in book events: including the ushering in of a new Giller winner! With a 3/5 chance of it being an indie book, we like those odds!

And of course, it's Remembrance Day on Wednesday, folks – please do take a moment to reflect in whichever way suits you ... Read more