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Emily Donaldson rounds up the most promising titles of the season to add to your reading list

September is here and various events are set to take place at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and surrounding communities to help ease you into and get engaged with the new semester. Every Friday from 1:00 to 6:00 pm, KPU brew beer sales will be taking place at the KPU Brew Lab in the Langley campus. Student-brewed

The future of the planet, of democracy and identities, of languages and people, and of our imaginations: this is the theme of the 2023 edition of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, gearing up to celebrate 25 years.

If you love poetry, watch for these books coming out in the first half of 2023.

Tawahum Bige [he/they] is, in their words, “the whole gamut”: poet, performer, land defender, rapper, musician, and writer, as well as an uncle and a little brother.  Bige, a Two-Spirit, nonbinary Łutsel K’e Dene and Plains Cree writer, began their poetry career while studying at Kwantlen University. They remember being struck by the power of imagery while hearing spoken word poet Hannah Johnson perform at Slamming the Binary: “They had this work about mermaids and their experience with gender, and pushing against it, but what I remember most was just bei...