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Do it wrong
A radically liberating collection of essays, ideas and approaches to writing and teaching poetry Do It Wrong is a short, snappy series of provocations and suggestions designed to help poets think outside the box and foster creativity. It’s a permission slip to take a path others reject, to do t...
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Madness belongs to the people
"madness resists mastery yet, to attenuate the violence / of a colonial system" With gentle fervour and precise language that speaks to the nonverbal, the gestural, the sonic, Jody Chan’s third collection of poetry mobilizes the intimate, the historical, the revolutionary, and the mundane to con...
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Lumens
Lumens liberates the racist symbolic order rooted in whiteness-as-goodness in history's nomenclature of light, situating dark(ness) as the genesis of meaning. Both poetry collection and shadow-historiography, Lumens embarks on an Enlightenment quest in reverse. These poems question the violent r...
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Heart of damage
Celebrated Argentinian poet María Negroni explores her relationships to her mother and her writing through a veritable lash of language. Heart of Damage is a “portrait of the artist as a young woman” that explores the mysteries of the mother–daughter bond and speculates about a link between trau...
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Skin
Conceived in the same world as Pennock’s first two books of poetry, Bones and Blood, Skin is the final book in a trilogy that centres a two-spirit Indigenous person's experiences.Skin is a haunting, genre-blurring collection rooted in Treaty 8 territory, where memory, place, and loss intertwine. ...
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The fisher king
In this magnificent retelling of The Fisher King, celebrated poet and essayist Rebecca Tamás makes a call for attention to and connection with the natural world. A transcendental and cosmological text, The Fisher King moves from an opening prologue of spiritual devotion and aspiration in the ve...
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Whispering gallery
Experimental visual and prose poems that reimagine Greco-Roman mythology through a feminist lens. The poems in Whispering Gallery explore the tensions between analog and digital poetics, language, and materiality. Each poem, first typed on a typewriter and then digitally manipulated, is named ...
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All the waking hours
A lyric interrogation of life as a bored woman in the twenty-first century, for readers of Jenny Odell and Deborah Levy. What does it mean to be a human in the late stages of capitalism? How does boredom change as we age, and what moves us from inertia to action? Does being a woman in middle ag...
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Lightning in our roots
A timeless expression of ancestors’ voices as they transmit stories and witness truths for future generations. In Lightning in Our Roots, Avis Blackbird invites the reader on a journey to feel Indigenous fluidity of space and time, the impact of colonization, enduring connections to the land, li...
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Lake of two mountains
A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the r...
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Elimination dance
Bilingual Traveller's Edition: Edition pour Voyageurs. French translation by Lola Lemire Tostevin.Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Va...
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Reunion
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD FOR POETRYPoems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. Reunion is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in whic...
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Outskirts
WINNER OF THE 2012 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDWINNER OF THE 2012 ATLANTIC POETRY PRIZEA powerful diptych juxtaposing our rootedness in family love with a report from the precipice of planetary disintegration. Sue Goyette's outskirts is a tour de force. Its originality lies in Goyette's refusal of ...
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The true names of birds
The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a voice that has captured the attention of Canadian poetry readers for the last half-dozen years. Deeply centred in domestic life, Goyette's work is informed by a muscular lyricism. These are poems that push the limits, always true ...
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Ordinary hours
Sophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns' Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty, we revisit Enns' rural Mennonite childhood, replete with the sensuousness of "diesel fu...
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Marrying the animals
Near the centre of Marrying the Animals, Cornelia Hoogland's new book of poetry, is the sequence "In the Meantime: Elizabeth Smart Poems" Hoogland's exploration of Smart's obsession with the poet George Barker is an apt heart for this volume, for its abiding spirit is passion. With feather touch ...
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I, nadja and other poems
Poems that reach towards the lost or the might have been. In her debut collection, Susan Elmslie delves into the life and mental illness of the real person behind André Breton's surrealist romance, Nadja, recovering the story of a flesh and blood woman who became a symbol for the unknowability of...
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Frayed opus for springs & wind instruments
The English translation of new work from a celebrated Danish poet. Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places and states of mind, from a lit bicycle shed in the back yard to a root canal in November, from a typhoon in Hong Kong to inst...
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Mortal arguments
Mortal Arguments is Sue Sinclair's second poetry collection. In it, she continues her extraordinary phenomenological investigation of lived experience, addressing with increasing urgency issues of profound philosophical and political importance such as consumerism, privilege, and our ability to r...
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A really good brown girl
Deluxe redesign of the Gerald Lampert Award-winning classic. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fourth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of A Really Good Brown Girl features a new Introduction by Lee Maracl...
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Karyotype
A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology. At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Karyotype's poems range from the title sequence, which explores th...
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Auguries
Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of Auguries, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are saturated with their northern landscape. Roberts is well versed in the distances and dynamics between tedi...
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Roaming charges
A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman. Antony Di Nardo's third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page. Blending a bohemian ebullience with a reporter's obligation to witness...
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Hsin
WINNER OF THE 2023 J.M. ABRAHAM ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD Nanci Lee's debut explores 4th Century Su Hui's palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune. Heart-mind and nothingness are fair English translations of Hs...
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The end of travel
With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant images, Julie Bruck's new book gentles the largesse of life out of its many smallnesses.The way a straw buoys up in a can of pop, or a friend's dress holds her shape, even on its hanger: Bruck textures her poetry with a life "you could close yo...
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In a riptide
FEATURED ON CBC'S FRESH AIR WITH DAVID COOPERFunny while serious, wise without being certain, full of feeling and yet rinsed of sentimentality. The characters in Ronna Bloom's new collection In a Riptide are tired, sick, old, fragile, baffled, worried, dying, dead, uncertain, snacking, happy, gen...
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The artemesia book
Granddaughters, asters, Medea cakes, para pom tandle, Mrs. Roker raking, Caraquet, angelic recurrence, Neruda, zupzupzup, the high bush cranberries, the Somme, a waterfall in Iceland that cries by the thousandsful, the Strawberry Shaman and the Japonica Bushelful Bountiful Lady: you would never m...
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Midland swimmer
Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite. And conversely, how experience can be the whetstone for language, chastening its presumptions and requiring from it fresh exactitudes of music and insight. Wh...
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Bones
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD Poems about a young two-spirit Indigenous man moving through shadow and trauma toward strength and awareness. Bones, Tyler Pennock's wise and arresting debut, is about the ways we process the tr...
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Moldovan hotel
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 VINE AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WESTERN CANADA JEWISH BOOK AWARDS Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora. In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish an...
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Daughters of men
Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course through every life. "what do you dowith other people's memorieswhen they are carved into this landthe land offering up proof"—from "Prayer for Rain" Brenda Leifso's first vo...
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Infinite audition
Part poetry book, part theatre audition resource, Infinite Audition reflects a transmasculine and disabled experience of the world in a voice that is funny, humane and rooted in deep authenticity.Infinite Audition is a work that explores all spoken word poetry can be. The sections range from solo...
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The cyborg anthology
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 VMI BETSY WARLAND BETWEEN GENRES AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 ELGIN AWARD Poems written by Cyborgs in the future—this collection melds sci-fi and poetry, human and machine. The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs...
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All the names between
Poems that form an eloquent, searching contemplation of "the warp and weft of being and nonbeing." All the Names Between is Nova Scotia poet Julia McCarthy's meditative and crackling-with-dark-energy third collection. From her observation of "long-horned beetles...rearranging the landscape" to an...
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Hymn
A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body. Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes—from Belfast to the clear-cuts of Vancouver Island, from the subterranean heat of Jules Verne's Iceland to the ventriloquism of the Alberta Rocki...
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Shameless
In Marlene Cookshaw's work time is slowed so that you can walk around in the moment, rub your knuckles on its nap, trace its lattice-work of airs and pressures, and touch the sensitive places left by accidents and old loves. Life seems to come forward to meet speech, even as speech is reaching to...
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Mowing
An award-winning poet's day-book of poems, where both bounty and loss are tenderly assigned value. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she's haying June-high grass...
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Wet dream
WINNER OF THE 2023 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRYWet Dream is an expansive book of ecological thinking for living on a wet planet on fire. Erotic and political, vibrating with pleasures, medicines, and unrest, these poems metabolize toxic logics and traverse enmeshed ecologies through the wetness th...
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Modern and normal
In Modern and Normal, Karen Solie takes her on-the-road fascination with being between places to a new level, exploring conceptual and perceptual states of in-betweenness.For example, between what is perceived and what is actually there, or between and among the patterns the world repeats from th...
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All our wonder unavenged
A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe. In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Physic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of the holiness of subtleties, a master of m...
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Bottom rail on top
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 A.M. KLEIN POETRY PRIZEA rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it.Somewhere in the cut between Harriet Jacobs and surveillance, Southampton and sneaker game, Lake Providence and the supply chain, Bottom Rail on Top sets off ...
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Two hemispheres
Imagining the lives of nineteenth-century women asylum patients, Nadine McInnis charts her descent into, and recovery from, depression. In the afterword to Two Hemispheres, McInnis describes her first encounter with the remarkable photographs that illustrate this moving volume. Patients of the Su...
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Blood
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITY READS AWARDBlood follows a Two-Spirit Indigenous person as they navigate urbanity, queerness, and a kaleidoscope of dreams, memory, and kinship. Conceived in the same world as their acclaimed debut, Bones, Tyler Pennock's Blood centres around a prot...
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Elementary particles
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDPart family history, part scientific exploration, Elementary Particles examines the world through the lens of a daughter grieving the loss of her beloved father. Through keen, quiet observation, Sneha Madhavan-Reese's evocative new collection takes us from t...
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Glass float
Griffin Award-winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness. Waves carried a glass float—designed to hold up a fishing net—across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone's breath is inside it. In Glass Float, her seventh collection, award-win...
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Echolalia echolalia
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD Relentlessly inventive poetry that proclaims a diasporic, queer, and disabled self-hood.In Jane Shi's echolalia echolalia, commitment and comedy work together to critique ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies, and the body politic. Here are pla...
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Short haul engine
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2002 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2002 DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY AWARDKaren Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury after ...
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Accretion
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD An extraordinary debut set in Toronto, unfurling against the backdrop of an ancient Persian love story. The story of Layla and Majnun, made immortal by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, has been retold thousands of times, in thousand...
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Omens in the year of the ox
Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken. Steven Price's second collection is part of a long-lived struggle to address the mysteries that both surround and inhabit us. The book draws together moments both contemporary and historical,...
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Orion sweeping
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD Anne Marie Todkill's debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and grace in unexpected places. The poems assembled in Orion Sweeping take nothing at face value. What are we to mak...
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Dayo
WINNER OF THE 2025 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDAn elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging. Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who exists in a place not their own. A wanderer, migrant worker, exile or simply a stranger. At its core, the poems in Dayo interrog...
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Combustion
Lorri Neilsen Glenn's poems welcome the reader into a place where the strange is made familiar and the familiar reveals its own magic. Here the combustible materials of childhood and old age are always potentially present, and the attention paid them multi-dimensional. Her poems engage their subj...
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Yellow crane
JURY SELECTION FOR LE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL 2019Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin. Yellow Crane, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landsca...
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Placeholder
Disintegration, gaps in the historical record, and unaccounted-for absences hold these magically makeshift lyric poems together. Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau's second collection navigate flexible and shifting terrains where the speaker'...
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The fetch
A book of voices arising out of the lives of people who populated outport Newfoundland. Drawing on family recollections, interviews with elders and extensive research in archives and regional museums, The Fetch, Nico Rogers' first book, is a brilliant hybrid—neither a novel nor a collection of sh...
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Wittgenstein elegies
New and revised edition of an early work by the Governor General's Award–winning poet. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the last of our six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Wittgenstein Elegies features an expan...
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Stomata
A powerful grief book—poems that are not so much elegiac as visionary. Stomata, Genevieve Lehr's second collection, asks that language shoulder loss, that it reach out centrifugally, at full metaphorical stretch, calling upon all its narrative and lyric resources to be adequate to human tragedy. ...
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The grey islands
Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada's former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the second of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of The Grey Islands f...
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A sudden sky
A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces between things—always a gap, a failed connection, like radio waves cau...
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Impact statement
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PAT LOWTHER AWARDA revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so-called care under carceral capitalism. Borrowing and disrupting the forms of patient records, psychiatric assessments, and court docume...
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Daddy
WINNER OF THE 2025 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYIf you reloop trauma enough, does it make a danceable rhythm? If you get lost in physical sensation enough, does that make you free?DADDY is a powerful look at patriarchy, intergenerational trauma, and queer desire that seeks an unravelling of syst...
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Nuns looking anxious, listening to radios
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the happiness. Otherwise you could train for life, you could actually learn from grandmothers, mothers; poems—those bodies of lines and spaces—would ...
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Monologue dogs
Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year and Walrus Poetry Prize-winning author. Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every "voice" has its own imagined rhythm and nuances of poetic speech that are as vibrant, wayward, mournful, errant, or unruly as...
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Ending with music
Maurice Mierau tackles big subjects—sex, senility, war, suicide—without a ponderous bone in his body. His approach to poetry is amazingly vital, with a strong pop sensibility and a wry sense of humour. These poems are ripe with the atmosphere of a Wim Wenders film, with a little Isaac Bashevis Si...
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Love outlandish
A love affair chronicled—from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith. In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the clichés that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his work, explores their torrents and eddies afresh. As in his previous books, Demp...
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Other people's lives
Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson's poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man's-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their o...
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The knowing animals
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 NEW BRUNSWICK BOOK AWARDS Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being as an embodied, contemplative, feeling animal. In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers...
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South side of a kinless river
A nuanced, relational, and community-minded new book from one of Canada's preeminent poets.South Side of a Kinless River wrestles with concepts of Métis identity in a nation and territory that would rather erase it. Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between Indigenous women and Euro...
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Unidentified poetic object
Poems that highlight an excess, an emptiness, and a wilderness on the other side of use. In Unidentified Poetic Object, his twelfth collection of poetry, Brian Henderson strikes from language an "alphabet of lightning": an animacy and urgency in which every object is potent with actions, past and...
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The family china
Poems about the sense of belonging, about the tenuous ties we make across borders both international and internal. In The Family China, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded thro...
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Alien, correspondent
This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives and works in that remarkable city. Whether writing about the Middle East or about domestic life, Di Nardo refuses to romanticize; he doesn't moralize about the causes of...
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Horrible dance
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDA brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory.By turns darkly comic, emotionally connec...
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The martha landscapes
Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first acquaintance....in a blur of words." The cross-relationships that occur, in a po...
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Night work
A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. "Denied the leap and dash up the ice, what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk and cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes ar...
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My great-grandfather danced ballet
Two timelines intersect, weaving an alternate reality of queer ancestors, half-truths, domesticity, and desire in spite of past and present persecution.What if the queer ancestor you always wondered about had really existed—and could speak to you across all time? When there’s only one document to...
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Baby book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR POETRY"God is personal," the astrologer said. Terrifying and also personal, like a baby. Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a family vacation on a discount bus tour to a cosmogo...
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The woman downstairs
In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and acquaintances of life, its small coincidences and occurrences, its unexpected meetings. With a passionate distance, Bruck blends the outside observer's cool embrace with a ...
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Short talks
Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This new edition of Short Talks features ...
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Orient
Orient is the third collection from one of Western Canada's most accomplished poets. Composed mainly of three long poems—an extended meditation on the connection between man and fish, the lament of a big-souled cowboy poet looking up from rock bottom, and a historical envisioning of an intimate r...
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Trouble sleeping
"If only my cousin had kept off me, kept out of me his brown fly-strop glue, his shot dog-eye cream. Afterwards, he would comb my hair to a wet Elvis point between my eyes and warn me what his wolves would do to me, and where I'd be sent, if I ever told." This experience is at the core of Phil Ha...
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I am the big heart
WINNER OF THE 2021 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRY A love story to the emotional self—this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite. What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stret...
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First
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 CITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE Governor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost first frien...
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Year zero
Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson's poetry, poised and listening on this hinge of creativity, ontological wonder is inf...
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Familial hungers
FINALIST FOR THE 2026 J.M. ABRAHAM POETRY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARDPoems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food.Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hu...
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Tell them it was mozart
Linked poems that uncover the ache and whimsy of raising children on the autism spectrum. Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenberg's debut collection, traces both a slow bonding and the emergence of a defiant humour. This is a...
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Introduction to the introduction to wang wei
Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André AlexisFor me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain and, because the rain lasts, wandering the aisles on the fifth floor, taking bo...
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Torch river
"Beneath these sensually charged images lies a complex interrogation of the paradox of nature."—Quill and Quire In this stunning new collection, Elizabeth Philips takes us down into the swirling core of planetary energies, the central mystery of life itself. Sexual love, the wilderness, the birth...
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Tabako on the windowsill
An altar is a door; wonder is the key.What losses and intimacies bring you to this threshold? Tabako on the Windowsill contends tenderly with such questions, initiating through them the work of transformation. To shape an entire book around portals and thresholds is to search for living myth. Har...
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The banquet of donny & ari
Under the sugar maples of Montreal, family life is given mythic dimensions in this sweeping novella-in-verse. If Dionysus and Ariadne lived in Montreal in the late twentieth century, would he serve veal stuffed with apples and paté de fois gras? Coach nubile young singers in a performance of L'Or...
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Deeds/abstracts
Before his tragic death in 1992, Greg Curnoe had submitted to Brick Books a manuscript based on extraordinarily detailed research into the history of 38 Weston, his address in London, Ontario. The result is a journal/collage that traces the occupancy of that one small plot of land hundreds of yea...
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Noble gas, penny black
WINNER OF THE 2009 LAMPMAN-SCOTT AWARDLucid accurate detail and music at every turn. Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David O'Meara's work. Travel—being between places, in stations and airports and unfamiliar cities—crea...
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Sharawadji
A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically-malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness. Brian Henderson has established himself as a poet who brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instrument of discovery. In his work we realize, over and over again, that each of the...
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The garbage poems
FINALIST FOR THE 2026 LAMDBA LITERARY AWARD FOR BISEXUAL POETRYLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BMO WINTERSET AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PAT LOWTHER AWARD Poems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore everything from chron...
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A page from the wonders of life on earth
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDAn ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things.A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature—constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past—th...
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Worn thresholds
Reading Julie Berry's poetry means entering a new poetic space, crossing thresholds of pain and delight at once raw and refined. "like marie d'oignies who buried bloody/ mouthfuls of herself/ in the garden/ i need my poems to be like this," Berry writes in "Touching Ground.""Like this" is finely-...
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Heaven's thieves
WINNER OF THE 2017 PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDLyric poems built with consummate skill by a poet at the peak of her powers. Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions—What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? Wh...
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Nowhere is safe in gaza
A book-length erasure poem that takes as its source text South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with violations of the Genocide Convention. In Nowhere is safe in Gaza, Feisal G. Mohamed distills and amplifies the human experience at the heart of this leg...
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Burning in this midnight dream
A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada. Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose i...
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Immigrant blues
Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devastations of war, especially its effects on the emotions, thoughts and memories of exiled survivors. ...
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Our latest in folktales
Poems of serious wordplay—an affirmation and celebration of the spectacles we make of our lives. On-stage in Matthew Gwathmey's debut collection are agitated 19th century horsemen, 80s comic book beetles, plaid-clad suburban grunge enthusiasts, Korean aunts turned traffic cops, Parisian mimes — i...
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