A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
If deep-pocketed institutions and organizations – and prizes – in this country aren't doing enough to support and elevate Canadian poetry, then it's up to the rest of us.
That democratic erosion, well underway when Goodman published his book in summer 2023, has only accelerated under a second Trump administration.
"The poet laureate role to me is to bring poetry to the people and the people to poetry."
"I sort of lucked into the idea that Fitzgerald should be a part of this book."
If there is any obvious hope to be found in the sombre and desolate poems on offer in this collection, it is in the perseverance of nature in the face of violence and peril.
Galway's rich feel for language and her ability to inhabit a wide range of characters and milieus is impressive.
Bourrie transcends a simple biography and creates a snapshot of our riven historical moment.
In his SHuSH newsletter of March 21, Kenneth Whyte, owner and publisher of Sutherland House, took exception to former University...
"There's the one book I write, and then there are the million different books that people read."
The agreement includes honouring all existing Fitz & Witz contracts.