The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced a new $1.5-million endowment from British Columbia writer DC Reid. Funded over 10 years, the DC Reid Poets’ Grant will perpetually disperse eight annual $5,000 ...

The Griffin Poetry Prize is one of Canada's most prestigious prizes for national and international poetry. Canadian writers who have won this award include Anne Carson, Dionne Brand and Billy-Ray ...

Eurithe Purdy, Al Purdy’s widow, has announced the creation of a major new Canadian literary prize to honour poets “who embody exceptional talent and a profound connection to the Canadian spirit, a ...

Poet and author Humphreys guest edits the ninth installment of this anthology series, the challenging aim of which is to choose what each editor sees as the 50 best poems published in Canadian print ...

Jide Salawu’s bracing poetry debut challenges the idea that national writing can exist in isolation The post Canadian Literature Needs to Stop Talking Only to Itself first appeared on The Walrus.

is a column by writer Alicia Elliott that looks at arts and culture through the prism of the books on her shelf. On September 8, the Canadian literary world was rocked by the announcement that the ...

Canadian poet-translator George McWhirter stood alone at a lectern Wednesday night to accept the Griffin Poetry Prize he earned with his friend and longtime collaborator Homero Aridjis. The prodigious ...

Poets are not usually known for their storytelling gifts, a weakness occasionally brought home in this comprehensive collection of letters penned by Canadian poets over the last century and a half.

“We love the things we love for what they are,” Robert Frost declares at the end of “Hyla Brook.” But as Frost knew, that’s only half the truth. We also love the things we love because of how they ...

Edited by Jacob McArthur Mooney, Molly Peacock, and Anita Lahey. Tightrope (IPG, dist.), $21.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-926639-93-2 In its eighth year of publication, this collection features 50 ...

TORONTO - Canadian poet-translator George McWhirter stood alone at a lectern Wednesday night to accept the Griffin Poetry Prize he earned with his friend and longtime collaborator Homero Aridjis. The ...