by Sean Flinn

Q&A: filmmaker Brian D. Johnson on Al Purdy, poetry, and persona

Al Purdy is packing the house, or houses. There are the two sold-out screenings of Brian D. Johnson's documentary, Al Purdy Was Here at the Toronto International Film Festival. Then there's the Al Purdy A-Frame Association's ... Read More »

September 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Derek McCormack’s The Show That Smells adapted as marionette theatre

By Sean Flinn

Gil Garratt and Gemma James-Smith tried to create a puppet of Derek McCormack, but it didn't work. The husband-and-wife team behind the small Toronto theatre company Clawhammer attempted to construct a marionette of the author ... Read More »

May 12, 2015

Thomas King

By Sean Flinn

Thomas King’s water treatment

September 12, 2014

Tapping the market: indie presses hopping on the craft-brewing trend

By Sean Flinn

In 1982, Canada's first microbrewery, Horseshoe Bay Brewing, opened in Vancouver. Since then, more than 200 others have launched across Canada, fuelling the popularity of the craft- brewing industry, which has enjoyed significant growth in ... Read More »

December 27, 2013 | Filed under: Book culture

After dominating the poetry awards, Toronto’s BookThug finds itself at a crossroads

By Sean Flinn

Every independent publisher hopes for that pivotal moment when it all turns around, when it all turns big time. For Toronto's BookThug, the moment came last fall, when the small press claimed three of the ... Read More »

September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Book culture

Quill and Quire

Q&A: filmmaker Brian D. Johnson on Al Purdy, poetry, and persona

Derek McCormack’s The Show That Smells adapted as marionette theatre

Thomas King

Tapping the market: indie presses hopping on the craft-brewing trend

After dominating the poetry awards, Toronto’s BookThug finds itself at a crossroads

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