Tabloids and Newspapers
Newsprint magazines, newspapers, and the occasional online daily or weekly. What's happening? Downtown nightlife including the poetry scenes. What's just been published? The world of books. Some newsprint tabloids have a simultaneous online presence.
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U.K. (England)
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“To be a member of OttawaXPress.ca means to take part in a vibrant community of people fascinated by cultural manifestations and social debate.” Get their email newsletter. Find out about book reviews.
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/books/
“Quill & Quire is the monthly magazine of the Canadian book trade. Its primary audience is publishers, booksellers, librarians, writers, students and educators, and other media in every province.”
An online edition called Quill & Quire Omni is updated with book industry news daily and has a section of book reviews including reviews of poetry books (type “poetry” in the search-the-archives box). Various paid memberships allow further access to resources such as electronic access to Qull & Quire’s big publications: The Book Trade in Canada and the Canadian Publishers Directory.
Canada
http://www.quillandquire.com/
“Eye Weekly first launched in Oct. 1991, Toronto only had three daily papers, one weekly and no internet.” Now you can keep tabs online of weekly Spoken Word listings.
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.eye.net/arts/word/index.php
“The Mercury Press is an independent, 100% Canadian-owned trade publisher, specializing in the finest in Canadian cutting edge fiction and poetry.”
“The Mercury Press publishes Word: Canada’s Magazine for Readers + Writers throughout the year. Word features literary event listings, columns, and reviews.”
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.themercurypress.ca/
Tyee Books is a section of the online newspaper The Tyee: A Feisty One Online. “…with Tyee Books we have an accessible, free forum that people throughout the province can dive into to discuss books, from B.C. and beyond. That conversation is the core mission of Tyee Books.”—Charles Campbell , Tyee, Contributing Editor
Fun features from The Tyee: Teen Angst Poetry | Slammin’ Poetry: Hear it here
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British Columbia,
Canada
http://thetyee.ca/Books
“For more than a decade, the publishing teams at Insomniac Press and The Mercury Press brought you Word as a free tabloid. Word provides a much-needed service to the Canadian literary scene, including reviews, comment and opinion. Word’s writers and reviewers are among the most insightful and entertaining in the country…. The Word Reader is published three times per year, issues appearing as Winter/Spring, Summer, and Fall. Word’s Toronto literary calendar of events appears online monthly as PDF files.”
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.themercurypress.ca/word/index.html
“Word, Toronto’s Urban Culture Magazine is an essential one-stop guide to music, urban culture, entertainment and news.”
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.wordmag.com/
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“The Guardian newspaper, of which Guardian Unlimited is its online presence, was founded in 1821 and has a long history of editorial and political independence.” The books sections is chockablock. Find Poetry related stories, Podcasts, and their innovative Poetry workshop (“Want to have your work reviewed by a published poet? Every month, our poetry workshop is hosted by a different poet who sets an exercise, chooses the most interesting responses and offers an appraisal of them…”).
U.K. (England)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/
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