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Touch the Sky: Tree Poems
An excerpt from Worth More Standing:Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, edited by Christine Lowther

The Chat with Alexander MacLeod
This week we’re in conversation with award-winning Nova Scotia writer Alexander MacLeod, whose sophomore fiction collection, Animal Person, is out now …

The Chat with Meredith J. Batt and Dusty Green
Just in time for Pride celebrations comes the extraordinary book Len & Cub (Goose Lane), which documents, through a series of archival photographs, a same-sex …

Pedestrian Crossing: Recommended Reads About Walking
A recommended reading list by the author of the new essay collection Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female.

From Catastrophe to Possibility
A recommended reading list by Sharon English, whose latest book is Night in the World.

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Books for Pride
Diversity and acceptance are the threads that bind these picture books for grades Kindergarten to Grade 6.

Pushing Back
A recommended reading list by the author of the new novel Minique.

The Garden: A Place of Complexity and Questioning
An excerpt from new book A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee.

On Rereading: Books that Bowled Me Over and Blew My Mind
A recommended reading list by author of the new novel Mad Honey.

The Chat: Griffin Poetry Prize Roundtable 2022
We’re so pleased to once again partner with our friends at the Griffin Poetry Prize to spotlight each of this year’s Canadian finalists in a special …