Poetry
Celebrate all shades of the rainbow with 10 Atlantic Canadian queer books
byQueer writers have always written outside the margins. In honour of Pride festivals across the region from July 16 to August 22, spanning St. John’s to Moncton, Atlantic Books Today has complied a list of queer-friendly books and authors
Origin stories: Errol Sharpe
byPublisher and writer Errol Sharpe didn’t know he wanted to write a book until he’d already finished half the research for his first one
Newfoundland poet Mark Callanan
byIn the mid nineties Mark Callanan could have been a portrait of proto-teen, banging awkwardly at a guitar trying to make up songs. You know, working on his music. It didn’t take him long to realize it was the words he cared most about
McGrath, Peacock take home 2015 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards
byIn a ceremony at Government House in St. John’s Wednesday afternoon, poet Carmelita McGrath was named winner of the E.J. Pratt Award for Escape Velocity published by Goose Lane Editions. Retired veterinarian Andrew Peacock won the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction with his debut book Creatures of the Rock:A Veterinarian’s Adventures in Newfoundland published by Doubleday Canada. The wins represent a first for both well-established…
Poetic meditations on loss and reason
bygeo*logics
by Stephen Rowe
$16.95, paperback, 72 pp.
Breakwater Books, March 2015
This poetry collection offers lines like constellations
byStill No Word
by Shannon Webb-Campbell
$16.96, paperback, 96 pp.
Breakwater Books, March 2015