About the Author
Stuart Ross
Stuart Ross is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. He is the author of about a dozen books and countless chapbooks. His story collection 'Buying Cigarettes for the Dog' won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Stuart is the fiction and poetry editor for 'This Magazine', a regular columnist for 'subTerrain', and has his own imprint, "a stuart ross book," at Mansfield Press. He was the 2010 Writer in Residence at Queen's University, and has led writing workshops across the country. After half a century in Toronto, Stuart moved to Cobourg, Ontario, in 2009. 'You Exist. Details Follow.' is his seventh full-length poetry collection.
To kick off our annual summer book club, we virtually chatted with Book*hug Press, the team that brought us Shani Mootoo's newest novel Polar Vortex.
Today's ALU DiscoverVerse virtual chat is with debut poet Heather Birrell whose playful collection Float and Scurry (Anvil Press) features the likes of Mr. T, Joni Mitchell, and Fidel Castro, among others who explore love, libraries, and living in the face of a looming apocalypse. ... Read more
Today's Poetry Grrrowl feature is Allison Chisholm's On the Count of None (Anvil Press), a debut collection of poems that borrow inspiration from pop culture and are told with off-kilter humour and an occasional dark edge. Below Allison chats with us about her book and her ... Read more
The poems in Caroline Szpak's debut collection Slinky Naive are like a puzzle to be clicked into place: words, turns of phrases, metaphors and similes are pieced together revealing a delightfully unusual collection. Today, publisher Anvil Press tells us a little more about ... Read more
There's a lot going on this week, including the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair in Montreal (which is a much better alternative to Black Friday shopping, IOHO).
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Our literary events are truly coast-to-coast this week: we're holding out for when airlines get season tickets.
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When the temperatures dropped outside, ALU HQ became a near-literal freezer and we floated around the idea of an ALU snuggie. (Yay or nay?) But at least things heated up on the awards front: Carleigh Baker's Bad Endings (Anvil Press) was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ ... Read more
Why not celebrate Mother's Day by treating her to a literary event visit? There's tons to choose from this week, including Poet Laureate readings in London, the Atwater Poetry Project in Montreal, and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
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If you'd rather be hunting for new reads than eggs this week, check out our listings featuring launch parties, reading series, and all good things in between.
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