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July 17, 2025Read an Excerpt From A Phial of Passing Memories by James Yékú
Poet and scholar James Yékú’ has written in a variety of forms, but he returns this month with a second poetry collection that is deep and evocative, and that firmly grounds the reader in particular ...
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May 23, 2025Carolyn Ramzy Shares Profound Poetry About a Coptic Girlhood in Taslim: We Are the Prophets
Carolyn Ramzy's scholarly endeavours have taken her to a professorship in Ethnomusicology at Carleton University, where her main focus is on Egyptian Coptic Christian music-making. So it's no surprise ...
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May 07, 2025Read an Excerpt from Commonwealth, a New Poetry Collection by D.A. Lockhart
The poetry of D.A. Lockhart has filled over a half-dozen collections and has been published widely in some of the finest journals. Now the author returns with another series of poems that are sure to ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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November 04, 2024Suzan Palumbo's Novella Countess is a Queer, Caribbean, Anti-Colonial Sci-fi Epic
Suzan Palumbo has already turned heads in her previous work, with short fiction that has been nominated for the Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy Awards. Avid sci-fi readers will delight in immersing ...