As we close our week of publisher highlights for Indigenous History Month, we recognize Bookland Press, an independent publisher with a strong commitment to publishing and promoting books written or translated by emerging and established Indigenous authors, with a focus on preserving ... Read more

This week we appreciated local food producers, discovered and shared Indigenous-authored books, arm-chair traveled back to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and much more.

Spoken word artist, radio host, and former poet laureate of Victoria Janet Rogers explores the beauty and brutality of the world in her sixth poetry collection  As Long As the Sun Shines (Bookland Press). These poems speak as "not an instructional
 / but a list from them ... Read more

In  Holy Wild (Book*hug), award-winning poet Gwen Benaway lays bare her experiences as a trans woman of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She charts sexual intimacy and self- and other-love but also transphobia and settler colonialism through gorgeous, expansive poems, like ... Read more

Recently, All Lit Up got an exciting new addition: Indigenous Litspace, a site that highlights the ever-growing list of Indigenous authors and books we're lucky enough to read, talk about, and share with you. To make more space for these incredible and essential writers, ... Read more

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 two of #poetsresist for National Poetry Month calls up Janet Rogers to the anti-colonialism plate: her fourth collection  Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books) interrogates Canada's often hurtful relationship with Indigenous Peoples in the post-TRC era of our history. ... 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

With four poetry collection under her belt, Janet Rogers gives us a fifth, Totem Poles and Railroads (ARP Books), a well-versed reflection on the relationship between Indigenous nations and corporate Canada. Janet offers intimate, thought-provoking poems we can really get ... Read more

This week there are just heaps of readings: whether it's fiction or poetry you're after, there's events on both coasts in Halifax, Vancouver, and Victoria (plus some in Toronto!).

Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the ... Read more