All poets must read this book. It’s guaranteed to make you think again.

The Dialogic Basho

Basho: i want a poem
Frog: i want a pond

Basho: poematic pondness
Frog: pondific poesis

Basho: where are you?
Frog: where you are

Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems.

The first issue of a new periodical of contemporary experimental prose edited by Malcolm Sutton and published by BookThug.

After the “after the end,” after the dreadful pulps, after all manner of casual abortion, cosy mutilation, pointless sacrifice and staggering loss comes the etcetera barbecue – a quick sprint through a burning building with a look at what’s hung on the walls inside.

The Hunt is a collection of postcards that tell the fragmented story of a nameless family’s search for the murderer of their mother.

And Achilles swift-footed
he spoke filled with anger:

“You’ve screwed me, Apollo,
you biggest headfucker of all the gods,
you turned me here now
from the tall city wall
and those many men
who could have been dusted
before they slunk back home to Troy”

In Vancouver as the dark winter tapered into spring
I undertook to sing
My life my body these words
The men from a perspective.

“Victor Coleman is not James Joyce” – Bill Hoffer

Cartilage of the reader, the book’s completion is a softness

The Sands of Dream is the first English translation of Thérèse Renaud’s earliest book, considered by some to be the first truly Surrealist collection published in Canada. It is also BookThug’s Department of Reissue No. 1.

we are bossed vaudeville
quaint articulate contaminants
all ways under construction