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March 08, 2016
Nuance vs. Notoriety
For the longest time, I’ve been of the strong belief of the writerly life as associated with an either/or mentality: concision and painstaking precision, or, as writer Jack Kerouac would put it in his ...
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March 28, 2016
How the Light Gets Through
When the going gets tough sometimes it’s just tough to get going, and maybe when life throws you lemons, you don’t feel like making lemonade. So when things get tough and the world looks like it’s ...
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March 27, 2016
The Art of Resurrection
The Spring must be the cause that my writing has suddenly become obsessed with questions of the body and soul, the spirit we carry with us. The way I see poetry has been through a kind of defrosted lens ...
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March 25, 2016
Through My Window
It's hard for me to believe that one of my favourite children's books in the world, one that I grew up on and read practically everyday, is turning 30: Through My Window, one of the first books (if not ...
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September 05, 2023
Something to delight in: Why I became a book publicist
From my bookish beginnings as an anxious kid who preferred the certainty of a good story to the probable humiliation of trying to make new friends, I always believed that making a career out of books ...
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May 10, 2023
Eva Tihanyi's "3-Layer" Poetry Collection Cicle Tour is a Tour de Force
Eva Tihanyi's Circle Tour (Inanna Publications) has a simple but fascinating structure of three sections: the Outer Circle, Inner Circle, and the Centre. Each section has its own power – the outward-facing ...
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January 30, 2020
February 2020 Writer-in-Residence Nadia Hohn on Recommended Books, Overlooked Gems, and Charming Tropes
Critically-acclaimed Jamaican-Canadian children's author Nadia Hohn has spent her career celebrating Black stories, from her award-winning debut picture book Malaika's Costume (House of Anansi) to her ...
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September 01, 2023
"Things I Wouldn’t Otherwise Be Able to Say" September Writer in Residence Fawn Parker on Poetry & Process
Fawn Parker is not slowing down anytime soon, and that is very good news for readers. On the heels of her widely acclaimed, Giller-nominated novel What We Both Know, which came out in 2022, she has ...
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May 20, 2025 @ 6:30pm - 8:00pm - 371 Queen St. W. Flying Books at Neverland - https://flyingbooks.ca/events/46514
Aisha Sasha John at Flying Books at Neverland
Join us on Tuesday, May 20th, from 630 - 8 pm at Flying Books at Neverland, 371 Queen St. W. (map) for an opportunity to chat with Aisha Sasha John in our intimate bookstore/cafe/bar.
Aisha will be speaking ...
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May 27, 2025 @ 6:30pm - 8:00pm - 371 Queen St. W. Flying Books at Neverland - https://flyingbooks.ca/events/46518
Farah Ghafoor and Terese Mason Pierre at Flying Books at Neverland
Join us on Tuesday, May 27th, from 630 - 8 pm at Flying Books at Neverland (map) for an opportunity to hear from poets Farah Ghafoor and Terese Mason Pierre. The authors will chat on debuting and craft, ...