In her debut A Number of Stunning Attacks (Invisible Publishing), Jessi MacEachern delivers a collection of poems about gendered existence and dream that contribute to the ongoing association of fragmented forms and women's writing. Evocative of the styles of Nicole Brossard ... Read more
Fred Wah's Music at the Heart of Thinking (Talonbooks) is is a lifelong poem project that responds to readings in contemporary writing, art, and ideas from the past forty years. It works through language as a practice of thought and improvisation as the tool that listens ... Read more
In her collection One Thing – Then Another (ECW Press), Claire Kelly explores the feelings that come with moving across the country. From the major shift in environment and economics to the mind-boggling vastness of Canada, Claire shares more on how her own experience ... Read more
You may know us best as poetry-lovin’ folks here on All Lit Up, so we’re viewing this year’s Father’s Day through poetry-coloured glasses: we’ve rounded up three books from poets/children who each remember and honour their fathers in their collections, as well as ... Read more
For Women's History Month, we've saved Wednesdays for highlighting Canadian women writers, their latest work, and their writing process. This final October Wednesday, we have an interview with poet and writer Margaret Christakos, author most recently of Her Paraphernalia: ... Read more
The Counting House is the third full-length collection from Ottawa-based poet Sandra Ridley. A finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award, this latest collection evokes the pageantry and pedantry of the lives of those in Victorian England through a sort of ledger, or bookkeeping ... Read more
As the temperatures drop, warm your brains up with some literary happenings in your neighbourhood. If you're in Toronto, might we suggest The Puritan's Black Friday event, featuring a bevy of authors on All Lit Up?
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are ... Read more
There's tons going on this week, including Vancouver Writers' Fest, our second LPG40 event, this time in Montreal, and the International Festival of Authors in Toronto and surrounding area. BUT: if you go and do anything this week, make sure you VOTE first. VOTE. VOTE. VOTE. ... Read more
It's official: this may be our launchiest (and even raunchiest?) week ever.
Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, time, and address to hello@alllitup.ca to be included ... Read more
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