University of Alberta Press

06/25/2025

06/25/2025

'Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour' by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, explores connections between class, literature, and art from Cape Breton Island. Today's Featured in-store! 💕🇨🇦📚

"She addresses the fact that people from poor or working-class backgrounds face significant barriers entering the Canadian arts scene and shows that if they do not write themselves into stories, others will, often with damaging results. Beaton thoughtfully examines personal and working-class legacies, celebrating the authenticity and power of truly seeing ourselves and each other in the art that we create."

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06/17/2025

Thank you Tidewater Books! Such a gem of book from Kate Beaton.

'Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour' by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, explores connections between class, literature, and art from Cape Breton Island. Today's Featured in-store! 💕🇨🇦📚

"She addresses the fact that people from poor or working-class backgrounds face significant barriers entering the Canadian arts scene and shows that if they do not write themselves into stories, others will, often with damaging results. Beaton thoughtfully examines personal and working-class legacies, celebrating the authenticity and power of truly seeing ourselves and each other in the art that we create."

Visit us in person or online at tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚

University of Alberta Press .beaton

06/17/2025

In this compelling interview with Karen Solie, Dawn Macdonald reflects on her “massive diversion of several decades” from writing poetry, the influence of he...

05/23/2025

Dawn Macdonald's interview with CBC Yukon is online.
And it's a treat to listen to as they talk about winning the 2025 Canadian First Book Prize (Griffin Poetry Prize) for her debut collection, NORTHERNY.
And about the cover art.
And what it might be like to be on the same stage as Margaret Atwood at the Griffin Poetry Readings in Toronto on June 4!

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-81-airplay/clip/16147634-yukon-poet-nabs-national-award

05/21/2025

Dawn Macdonald has won the Canadian First Book Prize, awarded by the Griffin Poetry Prize, for her debut collection NORTHERNY.

Please join us in our delight for her accomplishment!

https://bit.ly/4kakEKI

05/08/2025

It's "confetti" season on campus...

05/06/2025

Celebrating book design is always a delight!
Today, we are sharing the 2025 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show: 115 examples of outstanding university press design from the past year.
We are pleased to announce that rob mclennan's ON BEAUTY was recognized in the Poetry and Literature category.
Congratulations to our remarkable designer, Alan Brownoff!

Read more & visit the virtual display: bit.ly/4iR61dI

05/05/2025

It's Red Shirt Day, a National Day of remembrance and activism honouring the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited People (MMIWG2S+).

It began with the REDress Project, created by Métis artist Jaime Black in 2010. https://bit.ly/4jY0hQm

We are proud publishers of KEETSAHNAK / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters, edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt. https://bit.ly/3Itd5xl