BookThug is proud to present Liz Worth’s fourth book, a collection of poetry titled No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. No Work Finished Here is a reworking of Andy Warhol’s […]
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In Conversation: Steven Ross Smith discusses Emanations: fluttertongue 6
From Steven Ross Smith, one of Canada’s preeminent sound poets, comes Emanations: fluttertongue 6, the latest installment in Smith’s ongoing life-poem series. Emanations: fluttertongue 6 marks Smith’s return to verse form, while being a […]
Continue readingTop 5 Reasons to Read A by Giller Prize winner André Alexis
Photo credits: Deborah Dundas In Fall 2013, BookThug had the honour of published André’s novella A. André Alexis has described his fictional terrain as “the shifting ground between the imagined life and […]
Continue readingVideo Playlist: BookThug Fall 2015 Launch Party
BookThug’s Fall 2015 launch party at The Garrison on April 13th brought together BookThugs from across the GTA and beyond to celebrate the launch and release of nine new innovative […]
Continue readingPauls of History and the Pauls Book Launch
Calling all Pauls! Tonight we officially kick off #paulsmania with the launch of Jess Taylor’s debut story collection, Pauls, at the Steady Cafe in Toronto. We’re looking forward to a night […]
Continue readingFall Poetry PREVIEW: Huckleberry Finn by Martí Sales
Enter the world as seen through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn—a weary and defeated landscape, but one of inherent hope, where reinvention is possible through the seminal power of words, […]
Continue readingGiving Up by Mike Steeves is a Finalist for the QWF 2015 Awards!
BookThug is very pleased to announce that Mike Steeves’s first novel Giving Up is a Finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2015 Concordia University First Book Award! Yesterday, in the Montreal […]
Continue readingHighlights from BookThug’s spring/summer events: Guest blogger Emma Hambly on her time interning at BookThug
Dear blog readers: my name is Emma Hambly and I’m here this week to give a small recap of my time at BookThug. My master’s program at Ryerson allowed us […]
Continue readingThe Pride of BookThug: Read Proud!
Happy Pride Weekend to all! With Pride Week 2015 celebrations taking place coast-to-coast this weekend, we’re celebrating with a selection of LGBTQ authored books we are proud to have published. […]
Continue readingIn Conversation: Lisa Gordon speaks to her new chapbook, Moving In With the Dalai Lama
The poems of Moving In With the Dalai Lama, the debut chapbook by Lisa Gordon, hide in the interstices of language, and are anchored in the tentative relationships that surround […]
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