Sean Howard’s new collection, Overlays (Gaspereau Press, 2025) collects “fresh poems from the deep wells of two related texts—John Thompson’s influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978) and Peter Sanger’s Sea Run (Gaspereau Press, 2023), a critical commentary on Thompson’s [work].”
Have you ever read a book that feels like looking into a mirror—one that reflects the parts of yourself you’ve buried while offering the comfort of a quiet, steady it’s not your fault?
Terese Mason Pierre is the editor of As The Earth Dreams (House of Anansi Press), a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
Sumaiya Matin: I’m delighted to be in conversation with you about your latest poetry chapbook titled What If Maybe and Other Poems, edited by Puneet Dutt and published by Baseline Press. This collection of nine poems, some previously published in literary magazines such as The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, The Temz Review, Queen’s Quarterly, …
What makes a sports team more than just athletes? For the Montreal Canadiens, it’s a rich tapestry of cultural significance and national pride, deeply interwoven with Quebec’s history.
Here is part II of my interview with Ted Barris. This interview has been edited for length and for clarity.
I’m putting the Code Noir on par in scale and importance with decrees like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Magna Carta, and the Treaty of Versailles. It is a founding document of the modern world. It’s just been buried because its story isn’t triumphalist.
This conversation took place on June 17th, 2025, in an online interview in Vancouver. It has been edited for length and for clarity. I recently had the opportunity to talk with celebrated BC author, Bill Arnott about his new book A Season in the Okanagan. His new book follows in the vein of his other travel memoirs, …
Revealing how dating apps are powerful social technologies that are radically transforming sexuality, relationships, and how we think about ourselves, this remarkable book cracks the code of modern romance.
Jerome Ramcharitar’s debut poetry collection The Riddle of Three Crimson Door (Cactus Press, 2025) is about language’s role in our consciousness, with meditations on dreams, animals, and the grotesque.
In order to effectively manage time leading up to the publication of the book, questions were sent to Reem Gaafar in March 2025, and her responses were provided in writing.
This interview took place over Zoom on February 23, 2025. Some of the questions were provided to the interviewees in advance. It has been edited for clarity and intention.
In 2024, Bren Simmers and Robert Colman both published books of poems centred on familial loss, with both tackling, in part, a parent’s struggle with dementia. Beyond very similar titles—The Work (Simmers) and Ghost Work (Colman)—both poets brought to the topic a fascination with the power of form. The authors recently had a virtual discussion about the process involved in their books’ creation.
Lightly edited for clarity, this dialogue took place at Hemingway’s Bar in Toronto on November 28th, 2024. Read Part 1 here. Nina: [Laughing] Everyone wants to kiss the doberman. Anyway. Anyway. So what do I want to know about you? Kevin: [Laughs] I mean I have a response to what you just said. Nina: Oh, …
Part one of a discussion of everything except writing between novelist Nina Dunic and poet Kevin Andrew Heslop on the occasion of the publication of Clarion.
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