A new Edmonton poetry house has found an unusual outlet for some of its content. Last year Rubicon Press launched Poetry in the Streets, a line of T-shirts bearing complete poems by two of its ... Read More »

It’s been a strong year for Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications, with three hot local sellers. Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue by Russ Gourluck, was McNally Robinson’s top-selling Manitoba book of 2006, and ... Read More »

Of the three Prairie provinces, Saskatchewan has always been the smallest player on the national publishing scene. For years there have been only two indigenous literary trade presses – Regina’s Coteau Books and Saskatoon’s Thistledown ... Read More »

Music buffs know John K. Samson as the lead singer and guitarist for the Winnipeg band the Weakerthans – a four-piece indie outfit with three critically lauded albums and fans around the globe. But Samson’s ... Read More »

Tory McNally remembers when she realized that her parents’ newest bookstore was going to take off. It was September 2002, a week after the Winnipeg-based McNally Robinson Booksellers opened a 20,000-square-foot outlet in a refurbished ... Read More »