rob mclennan ISBN 9781771262200 $17.00 CDN/USA 132 pages What do we know of history, and what, if anything, does it have to do with the present? Prompted by the author’s 2011 move from Chinatown to McLeod Street, in an area once known as the Village of Stewarton, A halt, which is empty is a series […]
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PoetryNOW: 11th Annual Battle of the Bards
This year’s Battle of the Bards takes place tonight at Harbourfront. It’s a great chance to see performances by two Mansfield writers among many others. Adebe DeRango-Adem and Peter Norman will both try their luck on the battlefield. The skirmishes begin at 7:30 pm. Kapow! Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre235 Queens Quay WestToronto M5J 2G8
Puneet Dutt at Henry of Pelham November 22nd
Puneet Dutt will headlining the wonderful “What’s the Big Idea” salon series that Henry of Pelham winery has been running on the Niagara Peninsula. It’s a great place to hear a reading, join a discussion, and drink a glass or two of wine. Well worth a visit if you have never been there. Tickets can […]
Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology in Ottawa
The Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology is going on the road this week for a launch in Ottawa on Wednesday. We’re basically taking over the wonderful Sawdust Reading Series for an evening of readings from local contributors. This was a great community project and promises to be a great community event. Please join us!
Meet the Presses is here again!
This is easily one of our favourite days on the calendar. Meet the Presses brings out all kinds of great creative people making marvelous books. Some are trade books and a lot are handmade with infinite care and imagination. It makes for a wonderful Saturday stroll if you’re in the neighbourhood. Come by and say […]
D.A. Lockhart launches in Windsor
D.A. Lockhart is doing his hometown launch for his latest book tonight at 7 pm. If you’re in Windsor/Essex check him out. The Gravel Lot That Was Montana is a terrific read!
On Second Thought
Priscila Uppal ISBN 978-1-77126-192-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 128 pages This is no typical mid-life crisis. Poet Priscila Uppal, faced with a very serious and frightening health crisis as she turned 40, reexamined her relationship to everything in her life, including her sense of what it means to heal. Thoughtfully and playfully, with Uppal’s famous dark wit […]
Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology
Edited by Priscila Uppal and Meaghan Strimas ISBN 978-1-77126-196-8 $20.00 CDN/USA 212 pages We all know someone. Or maybe that someone happens to be us. This groundbreaking landmark anthology explores the subject of cancer from all different points of view: patient, survivor, caregiver, lover, parent, child, doctor, surgeon, alternative healer, psychologist, compassionate human being, body […]
The Gravel Lot That Was Montana
D.A. Lockhart ISBN 978-1-77126-200-2 $17.00 CDN/USA 78 pages In poems that stretch from the wide boulevards of Detroit to the big sky vistas of Montana, D.A. Lockhart explores the way that places make us who we are. In these journeys and stopovers, layers of folk and Indigenous histories unfold and illuminate distinctive portions of […]
