Matt Rader's newest book of poetry,  Ghosthawk (Nightwood Editions) has been touted by Jan Zwicky as a book of "profound humility and intense vision.” A collection about wildflowers, relationships, and heartbreak, Ghosthawk soars while remaining rooted in the canyons ... 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

This week we interviewed Missy Marston, author of our #alubookclub pick Bad Ideas (ECW Press), recommended a follow-up read to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and shared poems and a debut short story collection. Also, ASMR is becoming official. Scroll on for that and more.

Our final week of #poetrygrrrowl starts fresh with Brenda Leifso's newest Wild Madder (Brick Books), a stunning collection that depicts the sense of wildness in self discovery with poems that dig at motherhood, marriage, and love. Scroll down to read our interview with Brenda ... Read more

Bridging secular spirituality and holy reverence with the commonalities of life, death, love, and hope, Amanda Jernigan’s Years, Months, and Days (Biblioasis) explores the connection between hymn and poem, recalling the spare beauty of Marilynne Robinsons’s novels or ... Read more

We're anticipating that March Break-life next week with a printable colouring sheet of parts-of-speech bookplates – for kids and kids-at-heart alike.

The 1990s in Canada was marked by the continued recession of the '80s, grunge-rock, the rise of celebrity culture and tabloids, and the Information Age. (And dangerous children's toys. See: moon shoes.) Scroll down to see what historical and literary happenings we dug up. 

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

Literary events across the country are heating up (unlike the temperature)! This week we have listings from Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Abbotsford: check out what's happening in your area.

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Not enough literary festivals last week for you? Check out this week, with festivals in Victoria, Vancouver, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and Toronto. But that's not all!

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