I was a student at the University of Toronto and was writing poetry and got a call from a place called Coach House Press, who asked if I had perhaps a book of poetry they could publish. They had…

My advice for the airport’s perennial opponents is simple: stale arguments won’t defeat Ford’s dream. Voters won’t be galvanized by specious arguments about an airport that’s been in operation since

bathtime   time is the actuality of perspective, the lands of low tide are more than myth only if one lives longer than a few hours ...

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

Batter up! With the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series and an entire country cheering them on, CBC Books has put together this reading list of baseball-themed books by Canadian authors.

The doorway   The outermost whorl of a flower that encloses the bud is known as a calyx. The ground was dry but the river was ev...

The Toronto air show is blatant advertising for militarism, war, and violence, it re-traumatizes victims of war, and its ear-splitting noise disturbs residents across the city over the Labour Day long...

from his Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton

When I first encountered the visual texts of the spirited “intermedia worker” Judith Copithorne, my understanding of what poetry a...

Gary Barwin and Lillian Nećakov have some collaborative work up in the Tuesday poem series ; Book*hug Press features Stephen Cain as part of...

We’re back with the final feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. We are closing things out with Stephen Cain! Stephen is one our oldest friends in the literary community, having ...

Kate Siklosi lives in Tkaronto / Dish With One Spoon Territory. Her work includes Selvage (Invisible Publishing, 2023) [ see my review of ...

Pierre Poilievre reportedly has plans to slash the CBC's budget. That would be a disaster for national unity.

Let’s skip the delicate language and ask the question any sensible person must be thinking: How stupid do you have to be to support a man who’s threatening to destroy your country? What kind of judgme...

By framing his election call in terms of needing a mandate, Premier Doug Ford invites us to look back on all that he’s done to the city without such a mandate.

Author Stephen Cain, Book*hug Press Co-Publisher Jay Millar, and poet Liz Worth join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation.

“ Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst after a hard day of nothin' much at all”            -         The Replacements, “Her...

Out of frustration we tried electing right-wing populists. Now things are worse.

“We will be calling the election next Wednesday,” the Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford told reporters at a campaign-style announcement in Brampton.