Guernica Editions

The Muslims on our street sang prayers for me. Everyone on Facebook encouraged me to date her: we were both quirky, and though on different continents, we played Scrabble with slang words—me in English and her, also in English. The only person, of course, who had doubts, was my therapist, Dr. Samson, who was certain she was a fabrication—she was Mohamed of Tunisia rather than Vivian of Amsterdam. [Read the full story.]

http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXFall20/Fall20%20-%20Eleanor%20Levine.pdf

Congratulations on the Puschart Prize nomination, Conyer! You can buy her debut full-length collection We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite here: https://www.guernicaeditions.com/title/9781771835091.

https://twitter.com/longconmag/status/1334253457197441033?s=20&fbclid=IwAR1olgB2OCUtv7zUMsgVLlcB6t0GZoegM9lSwxDfEZ7Eel40L0JTjaZcTPk

Changing the Face of Canadian Literature is an anthology compiled and edited by writer, spoken word poet and editor Dane Swan. It's a book that highlights and celebrates the work of BIPOC Canadian writers, including Doretta Lau, Ayelet Tsabari, Jael Richardson, Kaie Kellough, Doyali Islam and Charles C. Smith.

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-nonfiction-of-2020-1.5822569

Read micro-essays on poetic craft by Clayton, Vulpe, and Susan Atkinson, and read a review of Keith Garebian's latest poetry collection, Against Forgetting.

https://mailchi.mp/f52873e4744b/arc-poetry-november-newsletter?e=[UNIQID]

I was delighted to receive a poetry collection from Carolyne Van Der Meer in the post recently. Carolyne is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and lecturer who lives in Montreal, Quebec. She has recently published 'Heart of Goodness' - a sequence of thirty poems exploring the life of Marguerite Bourgeoys who established the Congrégation de Notre-Dame... we talk here about the book, the subject and the writing process.... Read the full interview.

https://niamhboyce.blogspot.com/2020/11/heart-of-goodness-by-carolyne-van-der.html

I am on my third read-through of Sky Gilbert’s Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World. It is the best book I’ve read this year, one of the most interesting books I’ve ever encountered. I’ve been dancing around this one for quite awhile, hesitant about the review because I am in awe of the book. Nobody expects me to be brilliant even if the book has put me in touch with a desire to be immortal, to make an impact. Gilbert’s book deserves to be read, deserves to be influential. While Gilbert hasn’t been a professor for very long (he was still in grad school when I was there not so long ago), he’s doing great things. I have read a lot of entertaining books this year, but I’m certain this is the best, a great idea for a Christmas gift in a year when all the best-sellers seem to be about American politics. Read the full review.

https://barczablog.com/2020/11/23/sky-gilberts-remarkable-new-book-shakespeare-beyond-science-when-poetry-was-the-world/