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April 23, 2025Danny Jacob's Debut Novel is a Genre-Bending Gothic Fairy Tale
Poet and essayist Danny Jacobs is featured on Open Book today, and this time for his exciting debut novel, The Ignis Psalter (Gordon Hill Press/The Porcupine's Quill). In a multigenerational tale about ...
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April 04, 2025Amy LeBlanc Explores What Happens When a Body No Longer Feels Like a Home in Her New Poetry Collection
There are many works of art about illness and disability, but the language and metaphors used to explore such conditions can often be infused with negative, even violent terms that do not truly represent ...
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March 28, 2025Internationally-Acclaimed Poet stephanie roberts Returns with the Breathtaking Collection, UNMET
On the heels of critical praise for her first poetry collection, stephanie roberts returns with another complex and stunning work that looks at both the seen and unseen, and explores social issues through ...
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March 27, 2025Readers Will be Spellbound by The Seated Woman, the New Poetry Collection from Clémence Dumas-Coté
In her previous works, Clémence Dumas-Coté has captivated readers with richly-layered, immersive poems that linger long after they have been read. Based in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, her writing ...
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February 18, 2025Fascinating and Notorious Mining Mogul Viola MacMillan Has Her Story Told in Windfall
Canada's history in the mining industry contains many stunning and nefarious stories that most are unaware of. Around many of our Ontario cities and towns, for example, there are streets, neighbourhoods, ...
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February 12, 2025Tea Gerbeza Challenges Ableist Perceptions of Normalcy in How I Bend Into More
Among the many complex themes in Tea Gerbeza's work, reclaiming disabled identity, disability justice, and disabled and queer joy are just a sampling. These concerns and more find their way onto the ...
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February 06, 2025Gwen Lamont's Young Self Writes Her Way Home in The View From Coffin Ridge
As an academic with a deep understanding of the impact of trauma, Gwen Lamont used what she had learned from her own life to bridge the gap between her story and those that she studied and researched. ...
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January 28, 2025A New Poetry Collection from Irene Marques Invites the Reader to Re-Enter Their Truly Bare Bones
Our featured poet today, Irene Marques, is an internationally renowned academic and author, with her many works published in a multitude of languages. In her latest collection, Marques focuses on "the ...
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January 09, 2025Read an Excerpt from Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the River of Life
The title of our featured historical work, Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the River of Life, comes from a Cayuga word meaning two roads or paths. It's emblematic of the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum, otherwise ...
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December 11, 2024Kevin Stebner's New Poetry Collection Breaks Down the Beauty of Typographical Shapes to Reveal their Inherent Voices
The newly founded Assembly Press has already started making waves on the CanLit scene with unique and exciting titles that will resound with savvy readers, and they've published a real gem in polymath Kevin ...
