Happy National Poetry Month (NPM)! We’ve got our fists up with our series Poets Resist dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day on the blog we’re featuring a poet whose work explores one of these: colonialism and violence, homophobia and transphobia, environmental ... Read more

Day five of #poetsresist gives us something to get loud about: Peter Midgley's Unquiet Bones (Wolsak & Wynn) features visceral, physical poems that explore struggles for democracy around the globe, speak to efforts to uproot colonialism while working in a variety of languages ... Read more

Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more

Peter Midgley's latest poetry collection  Unquiet Bones (Wolsak & Wynn, 2016) is an uncompromising reflection on how language tethers us to place: places we've come from and places we settle in. Drawing inspiration from HBC archives, Peter's collection showcases a "Janus-faced ... Read more

All Lit Up has long been a supporter of Synchronized Reading, in all its forms: turning pages in perfect harmony, lipsyncing to audiobooks, and, one of our favourite columns to write: Read This, Then That. By extension, we’re also big fans of the sport of Synchronized ... Read more

We're not the only ones  linking Pan Am and reading: the OPBO is hosting several readings events this week in Toronto, including children's writers and poetry events. The Saskatchewan Festival of Words also kicks off this week, bringing over 20 authors to Moose Jaw.

Are you ... Read more

It cheapens Ru to say that it is simply a story of immigration: this slim, beautiful book is introspective and honest, and much more universal in its message. Author Kim Thúy’s non-linear, fragmented narrative about a family fleeing a former life of luxury in Saigon to Malaysian ... Read more

Read This, Then That features literary pairings for the voracious reader. As big readers ourselves we know you always want your next book picked out before you finish your current one, so let us help you out with a two-fer recommendation.

When I lived in South Africa, the prevailing cocktail party question that came quickly after an introduction was “So, what do you do for a living?”

That was the yardstick by which one’s worth was measured and the conversation either moved on from there or, it moved away ... Read more