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Canadian literary event roundup: June 1-7

Deux Voiliers Publishing open house featuring Brendan Ray, Stephen Lorne Bennett, Chris Turner, and Con Cu, Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa (June 1, 7 p.m., free) Niagara Literary Arts Festival kicks off with readings by Erno ... Read More »

June 1, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Canadian fiction editor Melanie Little steps down at Anansi

By Stuart Woods

House of Anansi Press president and publisher Sarah MacLachlan has announced several changes to its editorial department. Melanie Little, who joined the firm two years ago as senior editor of Canadian fiction, is stepping down ... Read More »

May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Stone Upon Stone, Spectacle & Pigsty win 2012 Best Translated Book Awards

By Katie Gowrie

The winners of this year's Best Translated Book Awards have been announced. The honours were presented May 4 at McNally Jackson Books in New York as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. In the ... Read More »

May 9, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Q&A: poet and Book Fridge founder Kerri Cull

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Labrador writer Kerri Cull, founder of the literary blog The Book Fridge, recently released her debut collection of poems, Soak (Breakwater Books). Quillblog caught up with Cull before her reading tonight at the White Horse Lounge ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Canadian literary event roundup: April 20-26

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Fan Expo Vancouver celebrates science fiction with Spider Robinson, D.D. Brant, A.M. Dellamonica, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Vancouver Convention Centre (April 21-22, check website for times) Blue Metropolis Festival offers readings, panel discussions, master classes, literary ... Read More »

April 20, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Bestsellers list: poetry

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

From Tupac Shakur to Don McKay, this week's bestsellers list honours National Poetry Month. For the two weeks ending March 25: 1. The Iliad, Homer; Stephen Mitchell, trans. (Simon & Schuster Canada, $35 cl, 9781439163375) ... Read More »

April 2, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

Don McKay wins BMO Winterset Award

By Natalie Samson

Last week, Don McKay's The Shell of the Tortoise (Gaspereau Press) became the first ever essay collection to win the $10,000 BMO Winterset Award. On March 22, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council presented the ... Read More »

March 29, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Jay Macpherson: 1931-2012

By Steven W. Beattie

One of Canada's finest “ and arguably most underappreciated “ poets has died. Jay Macpherson, a professor at the University of Toronto who won the Governor General's Literary Award for her 1957 collection, The Boatman, ... Read More »

March 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links roundup: The Hunger Games attracts older audiences, no one is buying Mike Daisey’s book, and more

By Sue Carter

The Hunger Games film predicted to net older audiences, thanks to the YA book's popularity with adults Mike Daisey's 15 minutes of notoriety are not translating into book sales British poet Ruth Padel on how ... Read More »

March 22, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Q&A with New Brunswick poet Sue Sinclair

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

New Brunswick poet Sue Sinclair is the author of four books of poetry: Secrets of Weather & Hope (Brick Books, 2001), Mortal Arguments (Brick, 2003), The Drunken Lovely Bird (Goose Lane Editions, 2004), and Breaker ... Read More »

March 9, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

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Search Results by tag: poetry

Canadian literary event roundup: June 1-7

Canadian fiction editor Melanie Little steps down at Anansi

Stone Upon Stone, Spectacle & Pigsty win 2012 Best Translated Book Awards

Q&A: poet and Book Fridge founder Kerri Cull

Canadian literary event roundup: April 20-26

Bestsellers list: poetry

Don McKay wins BMO Winterset Award

Jay Macpherson: 1931-2012

Book links roundup: The Hunger Games attracts older audiences, no one is buying Mike Daisey’s book, and more

Q&A with New Brunswick poet Sue Sinclair

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