The first national anthology of poetry by African Canadians will be released in celebration of Black History Month this February. Published by Frontenac House, The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry features the works of over 90 poets across Canada. The poets are a diverse bunch in terms of form, history and geography. From big cities to [...]
This year, Canadian literature belongs to the country’s female readers and writers for a few key reasons.
Canada has no classic Christmas story! But that doesn’t stop Susanne Marshall from searching high and low for a Canadian tale worthy of the season.
Enjoy a tasty morsel of Canadian news stories from around the web, curated for your reading enjoyment. It’s Canada Soup!
Our Literature Editor rounds up the winners of some of the principal Canadian prizes awarded this year. Enjoy this bounty of Canadian literature!
Canadian literature has long had a thematic interest in the uncanny, the strange, the frightening, the unknown. From the magical and sometimes terrifying inhabitants of First Nations myths and legends, to the paranoiac claustrophobia imbuing early literature, identified by Northrop Frye as the “garrison mentality,” to the continued dread within contemporary literature of the myriad [...]
It’s that time of year again: autumn is upon us, with the tang of decay in the air and the scent of paper burning in the woodstove. And paper, bound into books and printed in interesting and artisanal fonts, is the order of the day for lovers of Canadian literature in autumn. Forthwith: the shortlisted [...]
“He drank like a fish.” “The early bird gets the worm.” “It’s raining cats & dogs.” These and other expressions were coined by the satiric voice of Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
Congratulations to Ken Babstock , who last evening won the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize for a Canadian poet, for his fourth collection, Methodist Hatchet. Babstock was in the running with much-respected poets Jan Zwicky (for Forge, and whose Songs for Relinquishing the Earth won the 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry) and Phil Hall [...]
Leonard Cohen was recently awarded the Glenn Gould Prize, aka. “the Nobel Prize of the Arts.” Now, let us count the ways in which he is equal to the prize!
The sinking of the Titanic has resonated now for 100 years in the consciousness of Canadians. The grief, wonder, and curiosity the disaster continues to inspire has been the impetus for countless literary works. While the majority of these are factual or biographical, significant imaginative works of poetry and prose have been produced, works that [...]
Literature editor Susanne Marshall “longs for serious engagement with literature in the public sphere” and explores the effectiveness of populist literary awards like Canada Reads and CBC’s Bookie Awards.
TCE Blog is proud to present an excerpt from Douglas Gibson’s new book, Stories About Storytellers. Enjoy an excerpt on Teacher, Novelist, Essayist , and Cottager, Hugh MacLennan.
“Over the Hills in the Rain, My Dear” is a poem that encapsulates the long endurance and ridiculous wonder of longtime love. What better poem for Valentine’s Day?
TCE Blog is proud to present an excerpt from Douglas Gibson’s new book, Stories About Storytellers. Enjoy an excerpt on Greenpeace founder, writer, and Very Merry Man, Robert Hunter.
