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We share some locally-published, esteemed titles that will help to make Indigenous voices a regular part of every reading journey.Go to full post …read more

These four books help unpack some of our preconceived notions about what a suburb is and its relationship to Vancouver-proper.Go to full post …read more

Our individual and collective commitment to repairing relationships with Indigenous communities and to celebrating the lives and successes of their peoples is not simply a one-month project.Go to full post …read more

“I love how poetry can often blaze a more direct path to emotional truth than prose.”Go to full post …read more

Our last dispatch from the Poetry in Transit archives brings you this excerpt from “Atmospheric with Dull Knives” by Jen Currin, featured in 2006, the year that Poetry in Transit celebrated its tenth anniversary! Go to full post …read more

“In this interesting time of isolation, I think that what we all need are reminders of how deeply and intrinsically connected we are to each other.”Go to full post …read more

“I want to better understand how humans can be part of the natural world, rather than constantly butting our heads and machines against it.”Go to full post …read more

This week we’ve reached back into the Poetry in Transit archives to bring you “The Old Routine” from Lionel Kearns’ A Few Words Will Do (Talonbooks). Go to full post …read more

“I guess the dream of poetry is that it catches a reader and that reader’s pulse slows a bit”Go to full post …read more

“Every poem is an exercise in saying something true”Go to full post …read more

This week, a quiet moment of beauty brought to you poem by Gillian Wigmore’s poem “Stellako,” featured in Poetry in Transit 2008/09Go to full post …read more

The following interview is part four of a nine-part series of conversations with BC poets about their new poetry collections. New interviews will be posted everyone Tuesday and Thursday throughout April for National Poetry Month 2020. All interviews were conducted by Go to full post …read more