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Bill Richardson, winner of the Stephen Leacock medal for humour and former CBC Radio personality, delivers a “fresh and frisky” poetic take on transitioning into life as a retiree and living through the golden years.

In their frank and witty delivery, Richardson’s illustrated retirement rhymes for the hoary-headed do not just playfully reveal the inevitable weakening that afflicts the mind and body as the years wear on, they also cast light on the ageless, exuberant spirit that too often remains hidden inside. From retirement homes, cruises, and grandchildren to liver spots, memory problems, and geriatric sex, Richardson’s candid reflections on the trials, tribulations, and humiliations of growing old are funny, sharp, and irreverent.

Illustrated by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff, The First Little Bastard to Call Me Gramps is an essential companion to the graces, and disgraces, of ageing.

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We wanted to know more about Griffin nominee Shane Book's work in film, so we sat down to talk with him about his short film Praise and Blame, in which an internationally acclaimed dissident poet from Belarus with a frozen waffle obsession has a past that threatens to engulf him.

On the heels of the announcement of Shane Book's Griffin Prize nomination for his new collection Congotronic, Damian Rogers met with him to chat about immigrant mentality, bespoke Hammer pants, and anxiety at Woolco.

On the release of his seventeenth poetry collection Sequence, Damian Rogers met with the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz at the Royal Ontario Museum to chat about science fiction, the eternal moment, and finding inspiration in a fast food restaurant.