About the Author
Don McKay
Don McKay has published numerous books of poetry and several books of essays. The poetry has been recognized with a number of awards, including two Governor General’s Awards and the Griffin Poetry Prize. His most recent book of essays, The Shell of the Tortoise, received the Winterset Prize for Excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador Writing for 2011. Paradoxides, his most recent book of poems, winner of the E.J. Pratt Prize for Poetry, includes meditations on geology and deep time, while pursuing ongoing obsessions with birds and tools. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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
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
Gaspereau Press of Kentville, Nova Scotia was established in 1997 with the launch of its literary quarterly, The Gaspereau Review, and first three books. Soon partners Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield were publishing eight titles a year and by 2000 they had purchased a printing ... Read more
Happy Back to School, and back to book publicity – there's a bevy of book events this week! If you can, make the trip out to Eden Mills, ON, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Brick Books.
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