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Don't forget, we're regularly updating our guide to local bookstores in Atlantic Canada offering curb-side pickup and delivery for books. Stay safe and support your local bookstore <3 https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/stay-home-with-books-indie-bookstores-offering-pickup-delivery/ @Tidewater_Books @westminsterbks @BookmarkHalifax @PEIBookmark &more!

The FOLD went online this year, and registration is now open! Check out all of the great virtual events happening from Apr 30-May and register @ http://thefoldcanada.org

#todayspoem is from Year of the Metal Rabbit (Tammy Armstrong, #Gaspereau) - "the kind that glints the eye of a strange bird who pauses / to rest on our deck's railing, wanting nothing / but to whisper its one question into the world's wind-sore ear" #nationalpoetrymonth

#ThrowbackThursday, National Poetry Month Style. Here's a 2014 interview with Sylvia D. Hamilton about And I Alone Escaped To Tell You (#GaspereauPress) her debut poetry collection exploring the long history of how African people came to NS https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/voices-across-centuries/

Missed an issue of Atlantic Books Today? You can read back issues of ABT online! Visit http://atlanticbookstoday.ca/digital-editions #readatlantic https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/digital-editions/

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2020 Book Awards: Longlist Announcement – League of Canadian Poets

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Congratulations are in order this National Poetry Month! There are so many incredible books on these longlists, including lots of books from Atlantic authors and publishers

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The Gerland Lampart Memorial Award longlist includes Boom Time by Lindsay Bird (Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers), The Truth About Facts by Bart Vautor (Invisible Books), and These are not the potatoes of my youth by Matthew Walsh (Goose Lane Editions)

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award longlist includes Strange Attractor by Anne Simpson (McLelland and Stewart) and Inquiries by Michelle Porter (Breakwater Books Ltd.)

The Raymond Souster Award longlist includes Boom Time by Lindsay Bird (Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers), New Brunswick from Shane Neilson (Biblioasis), Strange Attractor by Anne Simpson (McLelland and Stewart), and Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-Gough (Goose Lane Editions)

Congratulations to all! ...

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2020 Book Awards: Longlist Announcement The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2020 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. Shortlists for our Book Awards will be announced Tuesday, April 20 – we can’t wait! Co...

Stay Home with Books: Indie Bookstores Offering Curbside Pickup & Delivery | Atlantic Books Today

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Don't forget, we're regularly updating our guide to local independent bookstores and businesses in Atlantic Canada offering curb-side pickup and delivery for books. Stay safe and support your local bookstore <3

Dave Shoots, Bookseller
Librairie Pelagie
Tidewater Books
Westminster Books
Baintons Tannery Outlet
Blue Griffin Books
Bookmark II
Bookmark
King's Co-op Bookstore
LaHave River Books
Otis & Clementine's Books & Coffee
Strange Adventures Comix & Curiosities
Tattletales
Woozles
& more! ...

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Atlantic Canadian readers can support independent bookstores and local shops while social distancing: bookstores are now offering more online shopping, local delivery & contact-free pick up options

How public libraries are helping Nova Scotians — even with their doors closed | CBC News

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Libraries throughout the province are continuing to help their communities, even with the closures related to COVID-19.

Shift - NB with Vanessa Vander Valk | Live Radio | CBC Listen

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This year's Frye Festival had to be cancelled due to COVID-19, but they are moving some of their scheduled programming online, from April 17-26 ...

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Shift is an energetic two and a half hours that connects people in the province with the events of the day and with each other.

Poetry debut | Atlantic Books Today

7 days ago

It's National Poetry Month!
"Engaging, tender and astute": Annick MacAskill reviews Douglas Walbourne-Gough’s debut poetry collection Crow Gulch, from Goose Lane Editions, in our most recent issue of ABT. ...

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Crow Gulch shows us a poet with a distinct style and point of view.