This week on Poetry Muse we are joined by Heather Nolan, author of  Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig (Breakwater Books). Heather shares a list of poetry collections she admires, her advice to aspiring poets, and how she began writing this collection while travelling ... Read more

Recounting a year in the life of poet Aaron Tucker,  Catalogue d'oiseaux (Book*hug Press) captures the time, space and love between a couple separated by geographical distance.

In this Poetry Express Q&A, Aaron tells us more about how the collection grew out of daily emails ... Read more

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

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

We chat with poet and author of the recently published collection  Mad Long Emotion (Coach House Books) Ben Ladouceur — who the Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury called "someone with chops and fodder, someone fully formed and bent on risk" — about the magic of re-reading ... 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

In her third book of poetry Q & A (Book*hug Press) Adrienne Gruber delivers a poetic memoir about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum after the birth of her first child. Divided into chronological sections on each time period, the collection explores the history of pregnancy ... Read more

Poet John Reibetanz's collection  Afloat (Brick Books) explores humanity's relationship to water: how we use it, are threatened by it, corrupt it, and are made whole by it. John calls our relationship with water the "natural metaphor for the reciprocal relationship between ... 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

Eight years ago, inspired by the line in Karen Solie’s Modern and Normal ‘Studies show your demographic does well to take up hobbies,’ Adrienne Gruber spent four months in Mexico learning how to scuba dive and how to stop being sad. Buoyancy Control (BookThug), ... Read more