# Brick Books

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- [Our Fall 2026 Season!](https://www.brickbooks.ca/our-fall-2026-season/): Madness Belongs to the People by Jody Chan 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 confront the instrumentalization of disability as a surplus class. Chan’s multidisciplinary poems are a lyrical account
- [Nowhere is safe in Gaza: Preface](https://www.brickbooks.ca/nowhere-is-safe-in-gaza-preface/): "South Africa’s action against Israel seems to have opened a new era in the relations between the Global North and the Global South, and the symbolic impact is profound."—Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories "Genocide means...deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Short Talks](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-short-talks/): We’re delighted to continue our 50th anniversary series this month with Anne Carson’s Short Talks. This edition is part of our classics series published in celebration of our 40th anniversary a decade ago! This months blog post is written by Hao Nguyen.
- [Festive Get-together Sale and 2025 Gift Guide](https://www.brickbooks.ca/festive-get-together-sale/): We’re getting to know each other here at Brick Books and Assembly Press, and we’ve designed a festive sale to help you get to know our books and our authors better too! Here’s the deal: Buy one Brick title from our website and we’ll throw in one free Assembly title; buy one Assembly title from
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Songs for Relinquishing the Earth](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-songs-for-relinquishing-the-earth/): After another brutal wildfire season and a slew of predictions things will only get worse, it’s tempting to say that by now the earth has been relinquished for good.
- [Publishing Ecosystems: The Garbage Poems](https://www.brickbooks.ca/publishing-ecosystems-the-garbage-poems/): In a climate where readers, booksellers, librarians, and other audiences are more interested than ever in “buying Canadian,” The Association of Canadian Publishers has launched a new Certified Canadian Publisher Program. Anyone who picks up a book with this seal isn’t only supporting an independent press, but an ecosystem of authors, editors, designers, printers, and distributors within Canada.
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Dream of No One but Myself](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-dream-of-no-one-but-myself/): What struck me the first time I read D.M. Bradford’s work is how powerfully their fragmented line – often refusing, it seems, to complete a full sentence – achieves an effect of contentious contact with “the big picture.” In Dream Of No One But Myself, terse, painfully observant poems about family dynamics blur into essays which disintegrate into scatterings of language, punctuated by colourful reassemblages of once cut-up photos from the author’s childhood.
- [Plot twist: Assembly Press x Brick Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/plot-twist-assembly-press-x-brick-books/): Assembly Press and Brick Books are delighted to share the news that we are merging operations. Our decision to do so is rooted in care: we’ll be able to better support our authors and their books as a more operationally resilient publishing house that is better set to achieve long-term sustainability. Each press will maintain editorial
- [Publishing Ecosystems: In a Riptide](https://www.brickbooks.ca/publishing-ecosystems-in-a-riptide/): In a time where LGBTQ!2S+ folks, racialized folks, Indigenous people, people who are poor, people with disabilities, and women continue to face threats to their personhood and lives, we are conscious of what poetry has been, is, and can be.
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Fetishes of the Floating World](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-fetishes-of-the-floating-world/): “when I lie down my head/ what will hold me in my rabbit-sleep” This is the last line gifted us in Dom Domanski’s Fetishes of the Floating World.
- [Publishing Ecosystems: Infinite Audition](https://www.brickbooks.ca/publishing-ecosystems-infinite-audition/): As one of Canada’s few poetry-only publishers, Brick Books has a deep awareness of what poetry can do for us in a tumultuous political landscape, both south of the border and within Canada.
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Hard Light](https://www.brickbooks.ca/50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-hard-light/): We’re delighted to continue our 50th anniversary series this month with Michael Crummey's Hard Light. This months blog post is written by Matthew Hollett.
- [Are You Feeling Philosophical?](https://www.brickbooks.ca/are-you-feeling-philosophical/): The world that we are living in has us pondering lately...
- [2025 Mid-Year Award News Roundup](https://www.brickbooks.ca/2025-mid-year-award-news-roundup/): We are over halfway through 2025, so we thought we would do a roundup of our award news since the beginning of this year!
- [Your TBR Needs More Poetry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/blog-more-poetry/): Treat yourself to more poetry – you deserve it!
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At— Short Haul Engine](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-short-haul-engine/): We’re delighted to continue our 50th anniversary series this month with Karen Solie’s Short Haul Engine. This months blog post is written by David O’Meara.
- [Feeling Philosophical in the New Year](https://www.brickbooks.ca/feeling-philosophical-in-the-new-year/): The New Year is fast approaching, with all of its attendant fears, hopes, and fleeting resolves. But what is the essence of a New Year if not to find new ways of seeing? What would happen if, instead of joining a gym, or finally banishing sugar (oh, would thou be true!), we instead began to
- [New Year, New to Poetry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/new-year-new-to-poetry/): "Read more books" can be a popular item on many New Year's resolutions, and hopefully it's one of the more joyous and easier-to-keep resolutions on your list, especially because reading is so good for you. Did you know readers have a 4-month survival advantage over non-readers (Bavashi, 2021) and that reading can reduce stress more
- [Introducing Poetry at Work](https://www.brickbooks.ca/introducing-poetry-at-work/): “It was a gift to have to time to be slow" - workshop participant If you're a poetry reader, you know that reading poetry can take you to a spacious internal place. To read a poem is to slow down to the level of breath, to pay close attention, and to feel a bodily sense
- [Annual Subscription](https://www.brickbooks.ca/annual-subscription/): Each year, Brick Books strives to bring moving and relevant books into the world by publishing poetry with deep craft and something at stake—titles that broaden the definitions of what poetry can be and do in the world. This year is no exception as we bring you 7 arresting titles from 7 incredible authors. While
- [Congratulations Don McKay](https://www.brickbooks.ca/congratulations-don-mckay/): We are so thrilled that one of our co-founders, Don McKay, has been added to the illustrious list of poets who have received the Griffin Poetry Prize's Lifetime Recognition Award. An attuned, wise, humble, and very funny poet, teacher, and editor, Don served as editor and co-publisher with Brick Books from 1975-2018 and continues to
- [Trivia Warm-up](https://www.brickbooks.ca/trivia-warm-up/): Although next year is our Big Year (50th Anniversary), in honour of National Poetry Month, we're offering a little teaser of activities ahead with a Brick Books Trivia Quiz that tests the depth of your knowledge on our history. The best part: take the quiz and automatically be entered to win a $50 gift certificate
- [Pride Month Begins 🌈](https://www.brickbooks.ca/pride-month-begins-🌈/): Who says December is the most wonderful time of the year? We think it's June: let summer come, let the sidewalks be painted in rainbow colours, let the parades parade, and let the pride flags fly proudly. We are very proud to have published and to be publishing some of Canada's finest, award-winning titles from
- [Writing Craft Bundle](https://www.brickbooks.ca/writing-craft-bundle/): It's the beginning of a new year, which means new commitment to your writing goals. If you are looking to explore ways to experiment with style and form, to engage in deeper philosophical conversations, or pursue purposeful themes, the Brick Books Writing Craft Bundle is the bundle for you! Over the years, our staff has
- [Let's Make Poetry a Beach Read Category](https://www.brickbooks.ca/lets-make-poetry-a-beach-read-category/): Mystery, romance, odes to friendship, page-turners are all things found in poetry though perhaps the fiction industry (ahem) might try to convince you otherwise. To that end, if you are looking for some great summer reading--and to get your hands on our great fall titles often before anyone else--look no further than our Annual Subscription.
- [Breaking the Rules](https://www.brickbooks.ca/breaking-the-rules/): Not that any of us really want to remember our high school experience, but who can forget the pain of our early efforts at social conformity? Don't we all cheer for the kid who throws off the mantle and just...becomes? Each of the books in our Breaking the Rules collection shrugs off the typical expectations
- [Announcing Fall 2024 Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/announcing-fall-2024-books/): Fall release season is but a few short summer weeks away, and we are thrilled to announce our frontlist titles. September 2 brings preeminent poet Marilyn Dumont's new collection, South Side of a Kinless River, a nuanced, relational, and community-minded new book from one of Canada’s preeminent poets.Be one of the first to get your
- [Summer Incantations with Don Domanski](https://www.brickbooks.ca/summer-incantations-with-don-domanski/): Crickets, cicadas, thunder, meteor showers, and fantastic solar storms--these are the days of summer, of living within the beauty of the world. Don Domanski's work offers us these moments of incantation and contemplation, through which we begin to perceive the workings of a larger existence. If you are interested in exploring the knot of spirituality,
- [Gift the 2024 Annual Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/gift-the-2024-annual-collection/): Whether for solace, inspiration, learning, challenge, or connection, humans turn to poetry in times of delight, shift, loss, and crisis. If you have a reader in your life who appreciates poetry for this companionship, our 2024 Annual Collection makes a thoughtful gift. A curated collection of poetry excellence, the 2024 Annual Collection includes each of
- [Making room for stillness and quiet](https://www.brickbooks.ca/making-room-for-stillness-and-quiet/): If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you are likely no stranger to current prolonged darkness (both literally and metaphorically). It's the time our bodies are telling us to slow right down: sleep, eat soup, drink tea, light candles, find the warm blanket, and, of course, read. What says stillness and quiet like a good
- [Support Quietude with the Annual Subscription Plan](https://www.brickbooks.ca/support-your-poetic-quietude-with-the-annual-subscription-plan/): And so, here is January -- with its lists and improvements and raised hopes all bundled up in hard-cover book jackets, scarved in podcast tours. Oh, January, can we give you a holiday instead? One that includes a wood-burning stove, a mug of tea, quiet, and reading that asks only for you to be open
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Moldovan Hotel](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-moldovan-hotel/): Alive and Thriving for 50 Years Founded in 1975 by poets Don McKay and Stan Dragland, Brick Books is marking its 50th anniversary in 2025. Keeping a poetry-only small press not only alive but thriving for fifty years in a capitalist culture is an unlikely feat, and we’re in the mood to celebrate. One
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—A Really Good Brown Girl](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-a-really-good-brown-girl/): Alive and Thriving for 50 Years Founded in 1975 by poets Don McKay and Stan Dragland, Brick Books is marking its 50th anniversary in 2025. Keeping a poetry-only small press not only alive but thriving for fifty years in a capitalist culture is an unlikely feat, and we’re in the mood to celebrate. One
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—Why I Was Late](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-why-i-was-late/): Alive and Thriving for 50 Years Founded in 1975 by poets Don McKay and Stan Dragland, Brick Books is marking its 50th anniversary in 2025. Keeping a poetry-only small press not only alive but thriving for fifty years in a capitalist culture is an unlikely feat, and we’re in the mood to celebrate. One
- [Literary Press Group celebrates 50 years supporting Canadian literary publishers](https://www.brickbooks.ca/literary-press-group-celebrates-50-years-supporting-canadian-literary-publishers/): Literary Press Group celebrates 50 years supporting Canadian literary publishers Video, 50 Books for 50 Years campaign highlights Canadian literary culture FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto—May 6, 2025: The Literary Press Group of Canada (LPG) is celebrating 50 years of supporting independent Canadian literary publishers in 2025. Highlights of the anniversary year include a dedicated
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At—outskirts](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-outskirts/): Alive and Thriving for 50 Years We’re delighted to continue our 50th anniversary series this month with Sue Goyette's outskirts. This months blog post is written by Annick MacAskill. Founded in 1975 by poets Don McKay and Stan Dragland, Brick Books is marking its 50th anniversary in 2025. Keeping a poetry-only small press not only
- [Add Poetry to Your Summer with the Annual Subscription Plan](https://www.brickbooks.ca/add-poetry-to-your-summer-with-the-annual-subscription-plan/): Oh, summer, the perfect time to refresh your mind, body, and soul on the beach, by the lake, or at the community pool — and always with a book (and, hopefully, sunscreen). Here are just a couple of exceptional books of poetry you can have by your side this quickly approaching season: Familial Hungers by
- [There Is Poetry In Pride🌈](https://www.brickbooks.ca/there-is-poetry-in-pride/): There is poetry to be found in pride. There is poetry in the protest, the freedom, and the fight of pride. There is poetry in the community, the joy, and the love of pride. Pride continues to be an act of resistance today, but the poetic resilience of the Queer community is, and will always
- [Brick Books 50th Anniversary: Brilliant and Timeless Books to Take Another Look At— awâsis – kinky and dishevelled](https://www.brickbooks.ca/brick-books-50th-anniversary-brilliant-and-timeless-books-to-take-another-look-at-awasis-kinky-and-dishevelled/): Alive and Thriving for 50 Years We’re delighted to continue our 50th anniversary series this month with Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer's awâsis – kinky and dishevelled This months blog post is written by Emily Riddle. Founded in 1975 by poets Don McKay and Stan Dragland, Brick Books is marking its 50th anniversary in
- [Fighting the Good Fight](https://www.brickbooks.ca/fighting-the-good-fight/): In the midst of this messy world, so much of humanity stands in resilience. The fight might feel long and treacherous, but it is a necessary fight, and it is not a fight that needs to be fought alone. If you wish to experience conscious, empathetic, and vivid poetry collections that offer diverse experiences of
- [Trivia Time!](https://www.brickbooks.ca/trivia-warm-up-2/): This year is our big 50th Anniversary, and to test the depths of your knowledge on our history, we've created this Brick Books Trivia Quiz. Have fun, and let us know how you did! Take the quiz here!
- [Sweetness for the Solstice + Poem by Anna Swanson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/sweetness-for-the-solstice-poem-by-anna-swanson/): I always picture dormant seeds in the ground beginning to stir and turn toward the light today, the darkest day of the year. I try to find a moment to stop and find the ears of the parts of myself that have collapsed or gone hopeless or numb or punch-drunk or cynical, and whisper there’s
- [Introducing Bundles](https://www.brickbooks.ca/introducing-bundles/): If you’re anything like us, when you are grappling hard with understanding something, you want to read Every. Single. Book on the subject you can get your hands on. Or maybe you might have a friend who is writing poetry for the first time, or a child who needs to see themselves reflected, or a
- [New to Poetry?](https://www.brickbooks.ca/new-to-poetry/): In a world that often feels too loud, too fast, too much, poetry stands as a beacon of hope and solace. It's more than mere words on a page; it's a lifeline, a whisper in the chaos, a guide through the storm. Yet navigating the vast and varied world of poetry for a new poetry
- [In Grief and Solidarity](https://www.brickbooks.ca/in-grief-and-solidarity/): The publishers at Brick Books feel compelled to add our voice to the chorus of voices from around the world calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the safe return of the Israeli and international hostages in Gaza and Palestinian political prisoners in Israel, and an end to Israel’s ongoing occupation. We add our voice to the
- [Introducing Brick Books' First Broadside](https://www.brickbooks.ca/introducing-brick-books-first-broadside/): I have a little wall of framed broadsides between my kitchen and bathroom—letterpress gems I’ve bought at bookfairs and readings across the country—and I love how, occasionally, when the light strikes it right, the broadsides make a little clearing in the forward momentum of my day by inviting me to pause inside a poem I
- [Introducing the 2023 Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/introducing-the-2023-collection/): In the now-ramping-up lead in to the Holiday Season, I recently read a social post about getting your loved ones things they really need. Suggestions included a mortgage payment (which, wow...do people do that?), or babysitting time, or meals for the freezer. These are all thoughtful, wonderful gifts that would, if gifted to me, bring
- [Standing With](https://www.brickbooks.ca/standing-with/): If you read any kind of news or are on any kind of social media platform, it’s likely you are, like us, caught up in the emotional rollercoaster of disbelief, anger, and fear given the manifestation of hate, fascism, irrationality, and unpredictability that appears to be the new normal south of the border (and in
- [What makes a book work?](https://www.brickbooks.ca/what-makes-a-book-work/): Thinking of submitting your poetry manuscript to Brick Books? Our acquisitions editors reveal what they look for in a book while reading through the submissions pile. Nick Thran I’d be lying if I said I was somehow looking for books like awâsis – kinky and dishevelled, or Dream of No One but Myself. They always
- [Indigenous Poets Recommend](https://www.brickbooks.ca/indigenous-poets-recommend/): In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous poets Justene Dion-Glowa, Tyler Pennock, and Daniel Lockhart recommend books they treasure by other Indigenous poets: * Justene Dion-Glowa (author of Trailer Park Shakes) recommends Shopping Cart Boy by Joshua Jordan G. H (Sireton Creative, 2018). Joshua's collection, (written when he was just 16,) shines a
- [8 Top Recent Diverse Poetry Titles for Every Library](https://www.brickbooks.ca/8-top-recent-diverse-poetry-titles-for-every-library/): What Makes Poetry an Essential Library Acquisition? Poetry has always been the art form to which people turn in times of crisis—in the face of illness, death, or heartbreak, in grief at the loss of what we knew to be true, at the loss of the world as we knew it. Poetry is read at
- [New Year, New Writing Goals](https://www.brickbooks.ca/new-year-new-writing-goals/): In the spirit of the new year, the Brick Books staff share their writing goals for 2023. Each of the Brick books we recommend have inspired and continue to inspire our own writing. Brenda I recently bought a pin featuring Lisa Simpson saying, “The whole damn system is wrong!” partly in response to a printer
- [The Birth of a Book](https://www.brickbooks.ca/the-birth-of-a-book/): There may be nothing sentimental about a machine, but I have to say that whenever I stop by Coach House Printing, where our books are lovingly printed in Toronto, my nervous system relaxes a little amid the rhythmic thunking of the machines printing and folding and binding and trimming the guts of books—something both comforting
- [Discover Your Poetry Balm for Today's Overwhelming World](https://www.brickbooks.ca/discover-your-poetry-balm-for-todays-overwhelming-world/): No doubt about it, it's hard to find respite from the onslaught that is today's world. And yet poetry has always been a balm of sorts, the art form to which people turn in times of crisis—in the face of illness, death, or heartbreak, in grief at the loss of what we knew to be
- [Our Favourite Books to Read Outdoors](https://www.brickbooks.ca/our-favourite-books-to-read-outdoors/): Alayna's Reads: Isn’t reading outside in summer a special kind of bliss? Especially under a tree, in a hammock, by a river or lake (or, if you’re really lucky, all of the above, all at once). And reading poetry outside is a special subset of reading outside; it can powerfully recalibrate you to read one
- [The Leap of Translation](https://www.brickbooks.ca/the-leap-of-translation/): Committing to publish a translation requires a leap of faith—at least it required one of us when we decided to publish an English translation of Désormais, ma demeure, by Québécois-Chilean poet Nicholas Dawson. We'd been wanting to embark on a translation program at Brick Books for a while—it felt important to us, as Canada's longest
- [If You Were a Bundle, What Bundle Would You Be? In Celebration of Pride](https://www.brickbooks.ca/if-you-were-a-bundle-what-bundle-would-you-be-in-celebration-of-pride/): What collections of poetry would you put together into a Queer at Heart Bundle?

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.brickbooks.ca/): As one of the few poetry-only publishers in the world and a long-venerated member of Canada’s publishing industry, Brick Books is a hub and a home for poets and lovers of poetry.
- [Authors](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/)
- [Contact Us](https://www.brickbooks.ca/contact-us/)
- [About Brick Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/about/): All Poetry All the Time As one of the few poetry-only publishers in the world and a long-venerated member of Canada’s publishing industry, Brick Books is a hub and a home for poets and lovers of poetry. Our guiding goal is to listen to and amplify urgent voices in poetry, and to do so with
- [Avis Blackbird](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/avis-blackbird/)
- [Submissions](https://www.brickbooks.ca/about/submissions/): The Selection Process at Brick Books The present procedure of selecting the final manuscripts for publication, evolved over a number of years, involves a 3-phase sorting: first reading by an acquisitions editor, occasionally in consultation with another acquisitions editor or editors compiling a list of about 15 finalists to be read in depth by a
- [Distribution](https://www.brickbooks.ca/about/distribution/): Retailers and institutions can order books through our distributors:
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- [Galleys](https://www.brickbooks.ca/galleys/)
- [Lasänmą](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/lasanma/)
- [Feisal G. Mohamed](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/feisal-g-mohamed/)
- [Misha Solomon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/misha-solomon/)
- [Pujita Verma](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/pujita-verma/)
- [Queer at Heart Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/queer-at-heart-collection/)
- [Voices Without Borders Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/voices-without-borders-collection/)
- [Resisting the Patriarchy Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/resisting-the-patriarchy-collection/)
- [New to Poetry Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/new-to-poetry-collection/)
- [My Heart is Heavy Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/my-heart-is-heavy-collection/)
- [Hidden Gems Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/hidden-gems-collection/)
- [Fighting the Good Fight Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/fighting-the-good-fight-collection/)
- [Feeling Philosophical Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/feeling-philosophical-collection/)
- [Earthly Entanglements Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/earthly-entanglements-collection/)
- [Domanski's Dreams Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/domanskis-dreams-collection/)
- [Breaking the Rules Collection](https://www.brickbooks.ca/breaking-the-rules-collection/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-the-garbage-poems-anna-swanson/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: Infinite Audition by Charlie Petch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-infinite-audition-charlie-petch/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-in-a-riptide-by-ronna-bloom/)
- [Anna Swanson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/anna-swanson/)
- [Ronna Bloom](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/ronna-bloom/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: Tabako on the Windowsill by Hari Alluri](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-tabako-on-the-windowsill-by-hari-alluri/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: In Your Nature by Estlin McPhee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-in-your-nature-by-estlin-mcphee/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: Ring of Dust by Louise Marois (Translated by D.M. Bradford)](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-ring-of-dust-by-louise-marois/)
- [Louise Marois](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/louise-marois/)
- [Christine Wu](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/christine-wu/)
- [Estlin McPhee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/estlin-mcphee/)
- [Hari Alluri](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/hari-alluri/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: Familial Hungers by Christine Wu](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-familial-hungers-by-christine-wu/)
- [Shipping](https://www.brickbooks.ca/shipping/): All orders are shipped via Canada Post (lettermail when the books are small enough) and via courier. This means tracking numbers are not usually available and cross-border shipments can take upwards of one month from purchase. In Canada Rates: $5 for the first book + $2.50 per each additional book Into the US Rates: $5
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- [Followers and Fans Page: South Side of a Kinless River](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-south-side-of-a-kinless-river/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: echolalia echolalia by Jane Shi](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-echolalia-echolalia-by-jane-shi/)
- [Jane Shi](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/jane-shi/)
- [Followers and Fans Page: DADDY by Jake Byrne](https://www.brickbooks.ca/followers-and-fans-page-daddy-by-jake-byrne/)
- [Jake Byrne](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/jake-byrne/)
- [D.M. Bradford](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/d-m-bradford/)
- [Jody Chan](https://www.brickbooks.ca/authors/jody-chan/)
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- [Riffs by Dennis Lee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/riffs-by-dennis-lee/): Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career. 8.75 x 6 Inches | 105 Pages Publication Date: March 15, 2015 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781771313445
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- [Dream of No One but Myself by D.M. Bradford](https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/dream-of-no-one-but-myself-by-dm-bradford/): Winner 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Shortlisted 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards Finalist 2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal Jury Selection Shortlisted 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family 8.75 x 5.75 Inches | 112 Pages Publication Date: Oct. 7, 2021 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781771315609
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## Author Bios

- [Adebe DeRango-Adem](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/adebe-derango-adem/): Adebe DeRango-Adem is the author of five full-length poetry books to date. Her poem, Vox Genus / Provectus," was selected by poet Sonia Sanchez as the winner of the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest. In 2023, her fourth poetry collection Vox Humana (Book*hug Press, 2022) won the Raymond Souster Award. In the same year,
- [Barry Dempster](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/barry-dempster/): Barry Dempster was born in Toronto, Ontario, and educated in child psychology. He is the author of two novels, a children's book, three volumes of short stories and eighteen collections of poetry. He has been nominated for the Governor General's Award twice; for his first book, Fables for Isolated Men, and for The Burning Alphabet,
- [Tyler Pennock](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/tyler-pennock/): Tyler Pennock is a two-spirit adoptee from a Cree and Métis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. Their first book, Bones (Brick Books), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry, was released in 2020, and their second book, Blood, was
- [Jody Chan](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jody-chan/): Jody Chan is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, care worker, and community organizer. They are the author of two previous books of poetry: sick (Black Lawrence Press 2020), finalist for the Lambda Literary and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, and winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and 2021 Trillium Award for Poetry; and impact statement (Brick Books 2024), longlisted for
- [Avis Blackbird](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/avis-blackbird/): Avis Blackbird is Secwepemc and Sto:lo and of mixed European heritage. She is an author, visual artist and photographer and belongs to the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. Avis is completing her graduate courses for counselling. Lightning in Our Roots is her first published work. She lives in Coast Salish territory in British Columbia.
- [Feisal G. Mohamed](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/feisal-g-mohamed/): Feisal G. Mohamed is a professor of English at Yale University with degrees in biology, English, and law. A past president of the Milton Society of America, his most recent books are Sovereignty (2020) and Resistance: A Paean to the Liberal Arts (forthcoming). In addition to academic venues, his writing has appeared in The New
- [Lasänmą](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/lasanma/): Lasänmą (she/her) was raised in Haines Junction, Yukon and is a member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation. Her English name is Mariah MacDonald, and she is a part of the Wolf Clan. Mariah lived in Haines Junction and Whitehorse before moving to Vancouver at the age of twenty-one, where she studied at the
- [Pujita Verma](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/pujita-verma/): Pujita Verma is a poet and illustrator currently living in London, Ontario. Her work has appeared across the Toronto Transit Commission Network and CBC's The National. She won awards from the League of Canadian Poets, the Toronto Arts & Letters Club Foundation, and the Eden Mills Writer's Festival, and was runner-up for the Janice Colbert
- [Misha Solomon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/misha-solomon/): Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022) and FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020), and his work has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Arc, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Riddle Fence, and & Change. He completed an
- [Susan Gillis](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/susan-gillis/): Susan Gillis has lived on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada and in Tiotià:ke Montréal, and now makes her home in Algonquin territory near Perth, Ontario. A poet, editor and member of the collective Yoko’s Dogs, Susan is the author of Swimming Among the Ruins (Signature Editions, 2000), Volta (Signature Editions, 2002), which won
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- [D.M. Bradford](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/dm-bradford/): Darby Minott Bradford is a poet and translator. They are the author of the hybrid poetry collection Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books, 2021), which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry, and was a finalist for, among others, the Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General Literary Awards. Bradford's first translation, House
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- [Christine Wu](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/christine-wu/): Christine Wu is a Chinese-Canadian poet who was born and raised on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver, BC). She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria, a MLIS from Dalhousie University, and a MA in English from the University of New Brunswick. In 2023, she was the
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- [Jake Byrne](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jake-byrne/): Jake Byrne is the author of Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) and DADDY (Brick Books, 2024). In 2019, they won CV2's Foster Prize for poetry. They live in Toronto/tka:ronto.
- [Jane Shi](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jane-shi/): Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Blog, Briarpatch Magazine, The Offing, and Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others. Jane is an alumnus of Tin House Summer Workshop,
- [Manahil Bandukwala](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/manahil-bandukwala/): Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist based in Mississauga and Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Award, and was selected as a Writer's Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com.
- [Marc Perez](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/marc-perez/): Marc Perez is a Filipino poet and writer living in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead, EVENT Magazine, decomp journal, CV2, PRISM international, and Vallum, among others. A recipient of grants from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, he has
- [Andrea Actis](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/andrea-actis/): Andrea Actis was born in Toronto but for most of her life has lived in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She teaches writing and literature at Capilano University and from 2015 to 2017 edited The Capilano Review. Grey All Over is her first book.
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- [Jan Conn](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jan-conn/): Peony Vertigo is Jan Conn's tenth book of poetry. Her poetry has received a CBC Literary Prize, the inaugural P.K. Page Founder's Award, and in 2016 was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a member of the collaborative writing group Yoko's Dogs whose publications include, most recently, Caution Tape (Collusion Press, 2021). She works
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- [Matthew Hollett](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/matthew-hollett/): Matthew Hollett is a writer and visual artist in St. John's, Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk). His work explores landscape and memory through photography, writing and walking. His first book, Album Rock (2018), is a work of creative nonfiction and poetry investigating a curious photograph taken in Newfoundland in the 1850s. He won the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize
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- [Nanci Lee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/nanci-lee/): Nanci Lee is a Syrian-Chinese poet and educator based in Mi’kmaki (Nova Scotia). When not writing or playing outdoors, Nanci works for Tatamagouche Centre, a justice-oriented retreat and learning centre focused on learning, gathering, transforming divisiveness through encounter. Nanci’s work has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, Matrix Magazine, The Antigonish Review, The Literary Review
- [Justene Dion-Glowa](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/justene-dion-glowa/): Justene Dion-Glowa is a queer Métis creative, beadworker and poet born in Win-Nipi (Winnipeg) and has been residing in Secwepemcú'lecw since 2014. They are a Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity alumni. They have been working in the human services field for nearly a decade. Their microchap, TEETH, is available from Ghost City Press. Trailer
- [Erin Robinsong](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/erin-robinsong/): Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut collection of poetry, Rag Cosmology, won the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and her chapbooks include Liquidity (House House Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in Lemon Hound, Vallum, The Capilano Review, Effects, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, and many others. Collaborative performance works
- [Derk Wynand](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/derk-wynand/): Derk Wynand was born in Bad Suderode, Germany in 1944 and has lived in Canada since 1952. The author of several works of poetry, fiction and translation, and a former editor of The Malahat Review, he teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Brick Books published Wynand’s Closer to Home in
- [Jan Zwicky](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jan-zwicky/): Jan Zwicky has published nine collections of poetry, including Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, which won the Governor General’s Award, and, most recently, The Long Walk. Her books of philosophy include Lyric Philosophy, Wisdom & Metaphor, and Alkibiades’ Love. Zwicky grew up on the prairies, was educated at the Universities of Calgary and Toronto, and currently
- [Deanna Young](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/deanna-young/): Deanna Young’s previous books include House Dreams, nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award and the ReLit Award, and Drunkard’s Path. Young grew up in southwestern Ontario during the 1970s and ’80s. Reunion, her fourth collection, belongs to that place and time. She now lives in
- [Gillian Wigmore](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/gillian-wigmore/): Gillian Wigmore is the author of two previous books of poems: soft geography (Caitlin Press, 2007), winner of the 2008 ReLit Award, and Dirt of Ages (Nightwood, 2012), as well as a novella, Grayling, (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2014). Her work has been published in magazines, shortlisted for prizes and anthologized. She lives in Prince George,
- [Sue Wheeler](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/sue-wheeler/): Sue Wheeler lives, works and writes on a seaside farm on Lasqueti Island, BC. Her previous books are Solstice on the Anacortes Ferry (Kalamalka Press, 1995) and Slow-Moving Target (Brick Books, 2000), both shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.
- [David Waltner-Toews](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/david-waltner-toews/): David Waltner-Toews lives in Kitchener, Ontario. A veterinary epidemiologist, he is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph and consults on health and ecology over much of the world. He has published six books of poetry, including this one, two books of fiction, and six books of nonfiction.
- [Agnes Walsh](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/agnes-walsh/): Born and brought up in Placentia, Newfoundland, Walsh studied folklore in Georgia (USA), before returning home and taking to writing plays, poetry and fiction founded in her love of her ancestral place. She divides her time between St. John’s and Patrick’s Cove around the Cape Shore from Placentia. In 2006 she was named the inaugural
- [Sarah Venart](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/sarah-venart/): Sarah Venarts’s poetry has been published in Numero Cinq, Concrete and River, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, This Magazine, Prism International, and on CBC Radio. She is the author of Woodshedding (Brick Books, 2007) and Neither Apple Nor Pear. Sarah lives in Montreal and teaches writing at John Abbott College.
- [Kim Trainor](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/kim-trainor/): Kim Trainor began writing poetry in the spring of 2009. Over the years she has worked at a campus radio station, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, a biomedical library, and is currently a sessional lecturer at UBC. Her poetry has won the Gustafson Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and has appeared in the
- [Colleen Thibaudeau](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/colleen-thibaudeau/): Poet Colleen Thibaudeau was born in Toronto on December 29, 1925, and grew up in St. Thomas, Ontario and also in Grey County. Married to fellow poet James Reaney in 1951, she died in London, Ontario on February 6, 2012.
- [Anne Szumigalski](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/anne-szumigalski/): Anne Szumigalski immigrated to Canada from England in 1951, and lived in Saskatoon from 1956 until her death in 1999. The author of 15 books, she received the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1995 for Voice, a collaboration with the visual artist Marie Elyse St. George.
- [Jennifer Still](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jennifer-still/): Jennifer Still’s first collection of poems, Saltations (Thistledown Press, 2005) was nominated for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Poems from Girlwood were finalists in the 2008 CBC Literary Awards. After living her adult years until just recently in Saskatchewan, Jennifer now lives in Winnipeg with her husband and two children.
- [John Steffler](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/john-steffler/): John Steffler was the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada from 2006 to 2008. His other books of poetry include Lookout, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; That Night We Were Ravenous, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize; and Helix: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Poetry Prize. Steffler is also
- [Dean Steadman](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/dean-steadman/): Dean Steadman’s work has been widely published in Canadian journals and e-zines, as well as in the anthology Pith and Wry: Canadian Poetry (Scrivener Press, 2010). He is the author of two chapbooks: Portrait w/tulips (Leaf Editions, 2013), and Worm’s Saving Day (AngelHousePress, 2015). He was a finalist in the 2011 Ottawa Book Awards for his poetry
- [Francis Sparshott](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/francis-sparshott/): Francis Sparshott was born in England on May 19, 1926. He has an M.A. from Oxford University. He came to Canada in 1950, and taught Philosophy at Victoria College, University of Toronto, from 1955 to 1991. He has been a member of the League of Canadian Poets since 1968, and was president from 1977 to
- [Carolyn Marie Souaid](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/carolyn-marie-souaid/): Carolyn Marie Souaid is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of over a dozen. Her work has been shortlisted for a number of literary awards, including the A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. She was born and raised in Montreal, where she still makes her home. This World We
- [Karen Solie](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/karen-solie/): Karen Solie is the author of three collections of poems, including Pigeon, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published in North America, the U.K., and Europe. Her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the BC Book Prize Dorothy
- [Douglas Burnet Smith](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/douglas-burnet-smith/): Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of ten previous volumes of poetry. His most recent book is The Killed (Wolsak & Wynn). He has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and has won numerous prizes for his writing, including The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize. Currently he divides his time between Paris, France and
- [Carolyn Smart](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/carolyn-smart/): Carolyn Smart has written six previous collections of poetry, including The Way to Come Home (Brick Books, 1993), and Hooked: Seven Poems (Brick Books, 2009). Her memoir At the End of the Day (Penumbra Press, 2001) won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. Smart is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for
- [Emily Skov-Nielsen](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/emily-skov-nielsen/): Emily Skov-Nielsen is an MA graduate from UNB’s English/Creative program. Her poems have been published (and longlisted in several contests) in journals across Canada including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The Puritan, CV2, Prairie Fire, and Prism International. She is the author of Volta (Anstruther Press 2017). She currently works for The Fiddlehead, Atlantic Canada’s
- [Sue Sinclair](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/sue-sinclair/): Sue Sinclair grew up on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk in Newfoundland and is currently living on Wəlastəkwiyik Territory, where she teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry, all nominated for or winners of national or regional awards. Sinclair edits poetry for
- [Goran Simic](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/goran-simic/): Goran Simic was born in Bosnia in 1952 and has published eleven volumes of poetry, drama and short fiction; his work has been translated into nine languages and has been published and performed in several European countries. One of the most prominent writers of the former Yugoslavia, Simic was trapped in the siege of Sarajevo. In
- [Ann Shin](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/ann-shin/): Raised on a farm in BC’s Fraser Valley, Ann Shin now lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters. An award-winning filmmaker, new media producer, and former radio producer, Ann recently directed and produced the documentary Defector: Escape from North Korea.
- [David Seymour](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/david-seymour/): David Seymour was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick and was raised beside the Niagara Escarpment in Milton, Ontario. In the past twelve years he has lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Leith, Scotland, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Toronto, Ontario, and Rosarito Beach, Mexico. During that time he has worked as a security guard, built in-ground pools, travelled through
- [Ann Scowcroft](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/ann-scowcroft/): Ann Scowcroft has been a professional writer and editor for many years, and was an academic for a few. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and presently works in the field of humanitarian assistance. Quebec is home base. The Truth of Houses is her first book.
- [Barbara Schott](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/barbara-schott/): Barbara Schott lives in Winnipeg where she was born and raised. She was nominated for the 1997 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, and won second place in the Prairie Fire Poetry Contest that same year.
- [Angeline Schellenberg](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/angeline-schellenberg/): Angeline Schellenberg’s poetry has appeared in Prairie Fire, CV2, TNQ, Rhubarb, Room, Geez, Wordgathering, Lemon Hound, and The Society, as well as in Cradle Song: a book of poems about newborns (Leaf Press). Her first chapbook, Roads of Stone (The Alfred Gustav Press), was released in May 2015. Her poetry won third prize in the
- [Nico Rogers](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/nico-rogers/): Nico Rogers writes poetry and fiction. He published his first book, The Fetch, in 2010. His latest poems come from being at home with his son and from being a stepfather to a 10-year-old girl. They reach into his personal and family history, while also attempting to flesh out some of the complexities of contemporary, urban
- [William Robertson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/william-robertson/): At the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. He now lives in Saskatoon.
- [Shaun Robinson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/shaun-robinson/): Shaun Robinson’s poetry has appeared in the Puritan, the Malahat Review, Prairie Fire, Poetry Is Dead, and the Rusty Toque, and received Honourable Mention in ARC Magazine’s 2018 Poem of the Year contest. Born in 100 Mile House, BC, Robinson has lived in Vancouver since 2006. He studied in UBC’s Creative Writing MFA program, where
- [Clea Roberts](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/clea-roberts/): Clea Roberts lives on the outskirts of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Her debut collection of poems, Here Is Where We Disembark (Freehand Books, 2010), was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award, was nominated for the ReLit Award, and was translated into German and Japanese. Clea’s poems have been published in journals
- [Monty Reid](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/monty-reid/): Monty Reid was born in Saskatchewan, worked for many years in Alberta, and now lives in Ottawa. His books include Garden (Chaudiere), The Luskville Reductions (Brick), and CrawlSpace (Anansi). Recent chapbooks include Kissing Bug (Phafours), Moan Coach (above/ground) and Site Conditions (Apt. 9). He has won Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry on three
- [John Reibetanz](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/john-reibetanz/): John Reibetanz is the author of eleven previous collections of poetry, and his poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry (Chicago), The Paris Review, The Walrus, and Canadian Literature. A finalist for the National Magazine Awards, the National Poetry Competition, and the ReLit Award, John has given readings in major cities all across Canada.
- [Roberta Rees](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/roberta-rees/): Roberta Rees lives in Calgary where she has taught high school and university English courses and now teaches Creative Writing for Women.
- [James Reaney](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/james-reaney/): James Reaney lived in London, Ontario until his death in June 2008. He is the author of many experimental plays for children and adults, short stories, a children’s novel, a non-fiction book on the national tour of The Donnelly Trilogy, a good many important essays and several volumes of poetry, best known and loved of
- [Kenneth Radu](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/kenneth-radu/): Kenneth Radu lives in Quebec where he has retired from teaching at John Abbott College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
- [Steven Price](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/steven-price/): Steven Price was born and raised in Colwood, BC. His first collection of poetry, Anatomy of Keys (Brick Books, 2006), won the Gerald Lampert Award and was named a Globe & Mail Book of the Year. His work has appeared in Canadian and American literary journals. He is one of the poets in Breathing Fire
- [E. Alex Pierce](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/e-alex-pierce/): E. Alex Pierce lives in East Sable River, Nova Scotia where she is developing a centre for writers and artists. Her work has been anthologized in Words Out There: Women Writers in Atlantic Canada (Roseway), The Best Canadian Poetry 2008 (Tightrope), and in Undercurrents: New Voices in Canadian Poetry (Cormorant).
- [Elizabeth Phillips](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/elizabeth-phillips/): Elizabeth Philips is the author of three previous collections of poetry, most recently A Blue with Blood in it and Beyond my Keeping. Both collections received the Saskatchewan Poetry Award for their respective years. She has edited numerous poetry collections and has taught creative writing in the Banff Wired Studio, the Banff Writing with Style
- [Soraya Peerbaye](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/soraya-peerbaye/): Soraya Peerbaye’s first collection of poetry, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (Goose Lane, 2008), was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Tell: Poems for a Girlhood (Pedlar Press, 2015) was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Trillium Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She lives
- [Arleen Paré](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/arleen-pare/): Arleen Paré’s first book, Paper Trail, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award for Poetry and won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2008. Leaving Now, a mixed-genre novel released in 2012, was highlighted on All Lit Up. Lake of Two Mountains, her third book, won the 2014 Governor General’s Award
- [Pain Not Bread](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/pain-not-bread/): Pain Not Bread is a collaborative writing group formed in 1990 by Roo Borson, Kim Maltman and Andy Patton. In Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, they occupy the border created by translation, allusion and echo, and make it into habitable space, a place where the subtle sensitivities of poets from the troubled late Tang
- [P. K. Page](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/p-k-page/): P. K. Page wrote some of the best poems published in Canada over the last five decades. In addition to winning the Governor General’s award for poetry in 1957 she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999. She was the author of more than a dozen books, including ten volumes of
- [Susan Paddon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/susan-paddon/): Susan Paddon was born and grew up in St. Thomas, Ontario, attended McGill and Concordia in Montreal, and lived overseas in Paris and London before settling in Margaree, Nova Scotia. Her poems have appeared in Arc, CV2, The Antigonish Review, and Geist.
- [Michael Ondaatje](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/michael-ondaatje/): Michael Ondaatje is a poet and novelist whose books include Divisadero, Anil’s Ghost, The Cinnamon Peeler, and The English Patient, which won the Booker Prize and was made into an Academy Award-winning movie.
- [Steve Noyes](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/steve-noyes/): Steve Noyes has published six collections of poetry, a story collection, and a novel. His latest poetry title is small data, from Frog Hollow Press. His second novel, November’s Radio, is forthcoming from Oolichan Books in Spring, 2015. Noyes was brought up in Winnipeg, studied writing at UBC, and has worked several times in China.
- [David O'Meara](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/david-omeara/): Born and raised in Pembroke, Ontario, O’Meara now lives in Ottawa and tends bar at the Manx Pub. Storm still (1999) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. The Vicinity (2003) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Noble Gas, Penny Black is his third collection.
- [Jane Munro](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jane-munro/): Jane Munro’s sixth poetry collection Blue Sonoma (Brick Books) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. A member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko’s Dogs, she’s been a professor of Creative Writing at several universities in British Columbia, taught many informal writing workshops, and read her poetry to audiences across Canada. For more than 20 years,
- [A. F. Moritz](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/a-f-moritz-2/): A native of Niles, Ohio, A.F. Moritz has lived in Toronto since graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1974. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto.
- [Jessica Moore](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/jessica-moore/): Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator. Her first book, Everything, now (Brick Books 2012), is a love letter to the dead and a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy (Talonbooks 2012) by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation award. Mend the Living, her translation of the novel by Maylis de
- [Maurice Mierau](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/maurice-mierau/): Maurice Mierau is a Winnipeg writer who has published poetry, fiction, and reviews since the mid-1980s. He was born in the United States and grew up in Africa, the Caribbean, the U.S., and Saskatchewan. His background is Mennonite. His interests include jazz (he plays upright bass in a jazz group), old Hollywood movies, science fiction,
- [Steve McOrmond](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/steve-mcormond/): Steve McOrmond is the author of three previous collections of poetry, most recently The Good News about Armageddon (Brick Books 2010), which appeared on a number of book critics’ Best of 2010 lists and was shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award. His second collection, Primer on the Hereafter (Wolsak and Wynn 2006), was awarded the
- [Nadine McInnis](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/nadine-mcinnis/): Nadine McInnis is the author of six other books, including Quicksilver (short stories), Hand to Hand (poetry) and Poetics of Desire: Essays on Dorothy Livesay. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Event and Room of One’s Own. She lives in British Columbia.
- [Don McKay](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/don-mckay/): Don McKay is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Long Sault (1975), Lependu (1978), and Apparatus (1997). He has twice won the Governor General’s for Night Field (1991) and Another Gravity(2000), and in June 2007 he won the Griffin Poetry Prize for Strike/Slip(2006). In 1975 he began serving as editor and publisher with
- [Emily McGiffin](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/emily-mcgiffin/): Emily McGiffin’s first poetry collection, Between Dusk and Night, was a finalist for the CAA Poetry Prize and the Raymond Souster Award. She was awarded the 2008 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards in 2012, and in 2015 won the ASLE Environmental
- [Julia McCarthy](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/julia-mccarthy/): Julia McCarthy was originally from Toronto, ON. She spent a decade living in the U.S., most notably in Alaska and Georgia. She also lived in Norway and spent significant time in South Africa before returning to Canada and settling in rural Nova Scotia where she worked as a potter to support her poetry habit. She
- [Randall Maggs](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/randall-maggs/): A writer and a wood craftsman, Randall Maggs was born in Vancouver, but has lived for nearly 40 years on the west coast of Newfoundland. After leaving the Canadian Air Force, he earned graduate degrees in English at Dalhousie and the University of New Brunswick, and in 1977 became a member of the faculty at
- [Dan MacIsaac](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/dan-macisaac/): Raised on Vancouver Island, Dan MacIsaac is a third-generation lawyer and served for ten years as a director on the board of the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria. His poetry, verse translations, and fiction have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals and magazines. One of his stories was short-listed for
- [D.A. Lockhart](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/d-a-lockhart/): D.A. Lockhart is the author of The Gravel Lot that Was Montana, This City at the Crossroads, and Big Medicine Comes to Erie. His work has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. He is also the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press. A Turtle Clan member of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, Lockhart currently resides
- [Joanna Lilley](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/joanna-lilley/): Since emigrating from the UK in 2006, Joanna Lilley has lived in Whitehorse, Yukon. Her poems and stories have been published in Canada and the UK in journals including The Malahat Review, Grain and The Fiddlehead. The Fleece Era is her first collection of poetry. She has also published a book of short stories The Birthday
- [Tim Lilburn](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/tim-lilburn/): Tim Lilburn is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including To the River, Kill-site, andOrphic Politics. His work has received the Governor General’s Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. Lilburn is also the author of two essay collections, Living in the World as if It Were Home
- [Brenda Leifso](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/brenda-leifso/): Wild Madder is Brenda Leifso’s third book of poetry, following Barren the Fury (Pedlar Press, 2015) and Daughters of Men (Brick Books, 2008), which was shortlisted for an Ottawa Book Award. Her poetry has been published in journals and anthologies across Canada, has won the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, and has been short-
- [Genevieve Lehr](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/genevieve-lehr/): Born in Newfoundland, Genevieve Lehr has lived and worked as an ESL teacher coast to coast in Canada. She lives in Halifax. Her poetry has been published in many literary journals, both in Canada and abroad. She is the editor of Come And I Will Sing You: A Newfoundland Songbook (University of Toronto Press, 1985,
- [John B. Lee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/john-b-lee/): John B. Lee’s prodigious output began with his first publication Poems Only a Dog Could Love in 1976 and now has well over 50 books. Prize Winner for Winston Collins/Descant Prize for the Best Canadian Poem, John B. Lee lives in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada where he works as a full time author. His work
- [Dennis Lee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/dennis-lee/): Dennis Lee has written more than twenty books of poetry, including Civil Elegies, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award, and Alligator Pie, the children’s classic. His most recent collection of poems is Testament. Brick Books published his poetry collection Riffs in 1992 and is presenting a new edition in 2015 as the Brick Books
- [Ross Leckie](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/ross-leckie/): Ross Leckie was born in Lachine, Quebec, in 1953. He has degrees from McGill, Concordia and the University of Toronto, and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. His work has appeared in leading Canadian and American literary reviews, and he is the author of a previous collection of poems
- [Carole Glasser Langille](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/carole-glasser-langille/): Carole Glasser Langille lives and writes in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Her previous volume of poetry All that Glitters in Water was published in 1990.
- [M. Travis Lane](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/m-travis-lane/): M. Travis Lane has lived in Fredericton since she came to Canada in 1960. This is her tenth volume of poetry.
- [Barbara Klar](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/barbara-klar/): Barbara Klar lives northwest of Saskatoon. Her first book, The Night You Called Me a Shadow, won the Gerald Lampert Award. The Blue Field, her second book, was nominated for the 1999 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. Klar is also the author of the chapbook, Tower Road, from JackPine Press. Cypress is her third collection.
- [Robert Kroetsch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/robert-kroetsch/): Robert Kroetsch was the author of eight novels including The Puppeteer, Alibi, and What the Crow Said. Also to his credit are several volumes of poetry and non-fiction works. Robert Kroetsch was a Governor General’s Award winner.
- [Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/tonja-gunvaldsen-klaassen/): Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen was born in Saskatoon in 1968. She spent her childhood first in Calgary, and later on a farm in Saskatchewan. Her first collection Clay Birds won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry in 1996. She now lives in Halifax with her husband James and their two small sons.
- [Lyn King](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/lyn-king/): Lyn King was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada as a child. She now lives north of Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines. Walking into the Night Sky is her second book. Brick Books published Lyn’s first book, The Pre-Geography of Snow, in 1987.
- [Don Kerr](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/don-kerr/): Don Kerr is the author of five books of poetry, four full-length plays on CBC Radio and The Fringe (including The Smoking Cabaret), a short fiction collection and a non-fiction book on the history of the city of Saskatoon. An editor of note as well, he has edited a comprehensive book of Anne Szumigalski’s poetry.
- [Michael Kenyon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/michael-kenyon/): Michael Kenyon’s work has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Baxter Hathaway Prize in fiction, The Malahat Review’s Novella Prize, Prism international’s fiction contest, the Journey Prize, the National, and the Western Magazine Award. His novel The Beautiful Children won the 2010 Relit Award.
- [Janice Kulyk Keefer](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/janice-kulyk-keefer/): Janice Kulyk Keefer is the auther of several works of fiction, poetry and literary criticism. Her recent novel, The Green Library, was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award. She lives in Toronto, and teaches at the University of Guelph, in Ontario.
- [Eve Joseph](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/eve-joseph/): Eve Joseph grew up in North Vancouver. As a young woman she traveled widely before moving to Victoria where she now lives with her family. Her first book, The Startled Heart, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
- [Frances Itani](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/frances-itani/): Besides her two previous books of poetry (No Other Lodgings, Fiddlehead, 1978 and Rentee Bay, Quarry, 1983), Frances Itani has published a children’s book and co-authored a book of short stories. More recently, Frances Itani, a Member of the Order of Canada, had a spectacular international debut with her first novel, Deafening, which received a
- [Maureen Hynes](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/maureen-hynes/): Maureen Hynes lives in Toronto. Her first book of poetry, Rough Skin(Wolsak and Wynn, 1995), won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry by a Canadian. Her second collection, Harm’s Way (Brick Books, 2001), was followed by Marrow, Willow (Pedlar Press, 2011) and then The Poison Colour (Pedlar
- [Chris Hutchinson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/chris-hutchinson/): Chris Hutchinson was born in Montreal and has lived in Victoria, Edmonton, Vancouver and most recently Phoenix, Arizona. He now lives in Vancouver. His poems have been translated into Chinese and have appeared in numerous Canadian and U.S. publications. He is the author of the poetry collection, Unfamiliar Weather (Muses’ Company, 2005). Other People’s Lives
- [Helen Humphreys](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/helen-humphreys/): Helen Humphreys is the author of four books of poetry, six novels, and two works of creative non-fiction. She was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. Her first novel, Leaving Earth (1997), won the City of Toronto Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her
- [Ken Howe](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/ken-howe/): Ken Howe was born in Edmonton, grew up in Beaverlodge, Alberta, and now lives in Regina with his friendly pit bull Zuki. He has played principal horn with the Regina Symphony for eight years. Ken is a member of the Council of Canadians, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and R. Murray Schaeffer’s Wolf Project.
- [Leah Horlick](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/leah-horlick/): Leah Horlick grew up as a settler on Treaty Six Cree territory and the homelands of the Métis in Saskatchewan. Her first collection of poetry, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012) was shortlisted for both a ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. In 2016 she won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, Canada’s only award for LGBT emerging writers.
- [Cornelia Hoogland](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/cornelia-hoogland/): Cornelia Hoogland has published five poetry collections, most recently, Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011). Her poetry has been published internationally and has been short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards on multiple occasions. Hoogland is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario , and is the founder and the
- [Brian Henderson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/brian-henderson/): Brian Hendersonhas been a Governor General’s Award finalist (Nerve Language, Pedlar Press, 2007) and a finalist for the CAA Chalmers Award for Poetry (Sharawadji, Brick Books, 2011). He is the author of eleven previous volumes of poetry, including The Alphamiricon (a deck of visual poem cards) and [OR] (Talonbooks, 2014). Former director of WLU Press, he is now co-editor of the
- [Carla Hartsfield](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/carla-hartsfield/): Carla Hartsfield was born in Waxahachie, Texas and now lives in Toronto. She is a classically trained pianist, a singer-songwriter, a self-taught autoharp player, a music teacher, and a visual artist. She has published two previous collections of poetry (The Invisible Moon, 1988 and Fire Never Sleeps, 1995) with Véhicule Press.
- [Diana Hartog](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/diana-hartog/): Diana Hartog has published three previous collections of poetry – Polite to Bees (1992), nominated for the BC Book Prize, Candy from Strangers(1986), winner of the BC Book Prize and Matinee Light (1983), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award. She has also written a memoir, No Hippies Allowed (1994) and a novel The Photographer’s Sweethearts
- [Maureen Harris](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/maureen-harris/): Maureen Harris is a librarian at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Event and CV2.
- [Eaton Hamilton](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/eaton-hamilton/): Eaton Hamilton is the author of eight books of fiction and poetry. Her memoir Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey, retitled No More Hurt, was a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK, shortlisted for the MIND Book Award and the VanCity Book Prize, and appeared on the Guardian’s books of the year list. Her poetry
- [Phil Hall](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/phil-hall/): Phil Hall’s first Brick Book was Why I Haven’t Written (1985). His fifth, Trouble Sleeping, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in 2001. With An Oak Hunch, his sixth Brick Book and ninth altogether, we proudly celebrate twenty years of association. Hall holds an M.A. in creative writing from The University of Windsor. He
- [Matthew Gwathmey](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/matthew-gwathmey/): Matthew Gwathmey was born in Richmond, Virginia and studied creative writing at the University of Virginia. His poems have appeared in Grain, Crazyhorse, Prairie Fire, The Iowa Review, and other literary magazines. He became a Canadian citizen in 2013 and lives with his wife and children in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he is a PhD
- [Naomi Guttman](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/naomi-guttman/): Naomi Guttman’s first book of poems, Reasons for Winter, won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. Her second, Wet Apples, White Blood, was co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing’s Best Book of Poems for 2007. The Banquet of Donny & Ari: Scenes from the Opera is her third poetry collection. Raised in Montreal, she
- [Catherine Greenwood](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/catherine-greenwood/): Catherine Greenwood’s poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies; her first book, The Pearl King and Other Poems (Brick Books, 2004), was a Kiriyama Prize notable book. She works for British Columbia’s Ministry of Justice in Victoria, where she lives with her husband, the writer Steve Noyes.
- [Don Gutteridge](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/don-gutteridge/): Don Gutteridge is the author of 40 books: fiction, poetry and scholarly works. He taught high school for seven years and then joined the Faculty of Education at Western University in the Department of English Methods. He is now professor emeritus and lives in London, Ontario.
- [Neile Graham](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/neile-graham/): Winnipeg-born Neile Graham was living in British Columbia, Washington State and western Montana while writing Spells for Clear Vision. Her first book, Seven Robins, appeared in 1983. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Canadian Literature, Calyx, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, Quarry, and Wot.
- [Sue Goyette](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/sue-goyette/): Sue Goyette lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has published three books of poems, The True Names of Birds, Undone and outskirts (Brick Books) and a novel, Lures (HarperCollins, 2002). Her fourth collection of poems, Ocean, is forthcoming from Gaspereau Press in 2013. She’s been nominated for several awards including the Governor General’s Award for
- [Nora Gould](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/nora-gould/): Nora Gould writes from east central Alberta where she ranches with her family. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 1984 with a degree in veterinary medicine. Her debut poetry collection, I see my love more clearly from a distance (Brick Books, 2012), was winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book
- [Lorri Neilsen Glenn](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/lorri-neilsen-glenn/): Originally from Western Canada, Lorri Neilsen Glenn lives in Halifax. The author of many academic books and two previous books of poetry (all the perfect disguises, 2003, and Combustion, 2007), she served as Poet Laureate for Halifax from 2005-2009.
- [Ulrikka S. Gernes](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/ulrikka-s-gernes/): Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in 1965 in Sweden of Danish parents. At the age of twenty-two she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, already a published and highly acclaimed poet. Her first collection, Natsværmer (Moth), was published in Denmark in 1984, when she was eighteen years old. Since then she has published an additional ten collections,
- [Patrick Friesen](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/patrick-friesen/): Patrick Friesen is the author of Blasphemer’s Wheel, winner of the Manitoba Book of the Year Award and runner-up for the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award. A Broken Bowl was shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. His most recent work is Earth’s Crude Gravities. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia. He has retired
- [Karen Enns](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/karen-enns/): Karen Enns grew up in a Mennonite farming community in southern Ontario. She currently lives and writes in Victoria, B.C., where she works as a private piano instructor. Her first book of poetry, That Other Beauty, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award.
- [Susan Elmslie](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/susan-elmslie/): Susan Elmslie’s first trade collection of poetry, I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick, 2006), won the A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and a ReLit Award. Her poems have also appeared in several journals and anthologies—including the Best Canadian Poetry in English (2008, 2015)
- [Stan Dragland](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/stan-dragland/): Stan Dragland has published four books of fiction: Peckertracks, a Chronicle (shortlisted for the 1978 Books in Canada First Novel Prize), Journeys Through Bookland and Other Passages, Simon Jesse’s Journey (for children) and, most recently, The Drowned Lands. Wilson MacDonald’s Western Tour, a “critical collage” has been followed by three other books of criticism, The
- [Susan Downe](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/susan-downe/): Susan Downe is a retired psychotherapist, a gardener, a wife, daughter, mother, and grandmother. Her praise-poem, Between This And This, was published by Spanish Onion Press in 1998. She lives in London, Ontario.
- [Wendy Donawa](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/wendy-donawa/): Wendy Donawa, formerly a museum curator and academic in Barbados, now lives on the West Coast and participates in Victoria’s vibrant poetry scene. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and online publications across Canada. She was a finalist in The Malahat Review’s 2013 Open Season Competition, and in 2015 she was runner-up in the
- [John Donlan](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/john-donlan/): Donlan lives in Vancouver half the year, where he worked as a reference librarian at the Vancouver Public Library for 20 years. For the other six months, he lives on a lake north of Kingston, Ontario, surrounded by 177 acres of wilderness. Spirit Engine is his fourth collection of poetry.
- [Adam Dickinson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/adam-dickinson/): Adam Dickinson is a professor of poetry and poetics at Brock University. His first book, Cartography and Walking, was shortlisted for an Alberta Book Award. He lives in St. Catharines.
- [Antony Di Nardo](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/antony-di-nardo/): Antony Di Nardo is a poet and teacher. He currently divides his time between Beirut, Lebanon — where he teaches English at International College — and central Canada. He is the author of two previous collections of poems: Alien, Correspondent (Brick Books, 2010) and Soul on Standby (Exile Editions, 2010).
- [Degan Davis](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/degan-davis/): Degan Davis spent his childhood in Mattawa, Ontario, at the confluence of two rivers. He works as a Gestalt Therapist, both in a university setting and in private practice. Degan’s poetry and non-fiction have appeared in such places as The Globe and Mail, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, and The New Quarterly. He is currently
- [Lynn Davies](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/lynn-davies/): Lynn Davies was born in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, TickleAce, Grain, CV2, Germination, The Malahat Review, and The Telegraph Journal. Her work has been broadcast on CBC Radio and translated into French and Spanish. Lynn lives in Fredericton.
- [Greg Curnoe](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/greg-curnoe/): Greg Curnoe was born in London, Ontario, and attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. Following the influence of Dada, he, along with other artists, rejected much of established culture and founded the Nihilist Party in 1962. He is the author, with David McFadden, of The Great Canadian Sonnet (Coach House Books,
- [Michael Crummey](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/michael-crummey/): Michael Crummey is an internationally celebrated novelist and poet; he has published nine books of poetry and fiction. Galore won the Canadian Authors Association’s Fiction Award, the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region), and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Governor General’s Award. Sweetland was a national bestseller and a finalist
- [Joan Crate](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/joan-crate/): Joan Crate was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Her numerous publications include poetry and short stories in Grain, Secrets from the Orange Couch, blue buffalo, and the Calgary Herald.
- [Marlene Cookshaw](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/marlene-cookshaw/): Born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta, Marlene Cookshaw studied writing at the University of Victoria and later worked for several years as the editor of The Malahat Review. Her poems have won several awards, among them the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize. She has published five previous collections with Brick
- [Meira Cook](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/meira-cook/): Méira Cook has published three previous poetry collections with Brick Books. Her poetry has won first place in the CBC Literary Awards, and a poem from this collection won the inaugural Walrus Poetry Prize. Her first novel, The House on Sugarbush Road, won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, Nightwatching,
- [Karen Connelly](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/karen-connelly/): Karen Connelly, a native of Calgary, has lived in Thailand, Spain, France and Greece. Her travels are an integral part of her writing. Touch the Dragon, a travel book deriving from her experience in Thailand, won the 1993 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction.
- [Hilary Clark](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/hilary-clark/): Hilary Clark was born and lived in Vancouver until 1990. She taught English at the University of Saskatchewan from 1990-2015. Now retired, she lives in Victoria, BC, with much more time to write. Her first book More Light won the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. Her book The
- [Kate Cayley](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/kate-cayley/): Kate Cayley is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer living in Toronto. She is the author of one previous poetry collection (When This World Comes to an End, Brick Books), a young adult novel (The Hangman in the Mirror, Annick Press), and a short story collection (How You Were Born, Pedlar Press), which won the
- [Anne Carson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/anne-carson/): Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. A former MacArthur Fellow, awards for her numerous books include the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Red Doc was recently awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the inaugural Folio Prize. Her first full poetry collection Short Talks was
- [Heather Cadsby](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/heather-cadsby/): Heather Cadsby was born in Belleville, Ontario and moved to Toronto at a young age. In the 1980s, along with Maria Jacobs, she produced the monthly periodical Poetry Toronto and founded the poetry press Wolsak and Wynn. Also at this time, she organized poetry events at the Axle-Tree Coffee House in Toronto and Phoenix: A
- [Charmaine Cadeau](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/charmaine-cadeau/): Charmaine Cadeau was born in Toronto. Her first collection of poetry, What You Used to Wear, was published with Goose Lane in 2004. She is currently Assistant Professor at High Point University in North Carolina.
- [Diana Fitzgerald Bryden](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/diana-fitzgerald-bryden/): Diana Fitzgerald Bryden is the author of one other book of poetry, Learning Russian (Mansfield Press, 2000), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Her poems have appeared in various publications and anthologies in Canada and the United States. Her first novel, No Place Strange, was published by Key Porter in fall, 2009.
- [Julie Bruck](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/julie-bruck/): Julie Bruck has published three previous collections with Brick Books, most recently, Monkey Ranch, which received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2012. Recent work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best Canadian Poetry, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Plume, The Puritan, Hazlitt, and The Rusty Toque. A long-time Montrealer, she lives
- [Tim Bowling](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/tim-bowling/): Tim Bowling was born and grew up on the West Coast and now lives in Edmonton. The Memory Orchard is his sixth collection of poems. The Witness Ghost (Nightwood) was nominated for the 2003 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Darkness and Silence (Nightwood, 2001) won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize, and Dying Scarlet (Nightwood, 1998)
- [David Bromige](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/david-bromige/): David Bromige is a Canadian born in England and resident in the United States. He was (by choice) on the fringe of the Vancouver Tish Group in the sixties, and he’s in the neighbourhood of the “language” writers now. Bromige’s Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987 (Black Sparrow) won the 1988 Western States Book Award
- [Roo Borson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/roo-borson/): Roo Borson has previously published nine books of poetry, as well as a number of essays and other pieces of non-fiction. She has served as a writer-in-residence at several major Canadian universities, and has given readings across Canada as well as in the U.S. and Australia. She currently lives in Toronto.
- [Stephanie Bolster](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/stephanie-bolster/): Stephanie Bolster’s first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General’s and the Gerald Lampert Awards in 1998. She has published two other collections, Two Bowls of Milk, which won the Archibald Lampman Award, and Pavilion. Raised in Burnaby, B.C., she now teaches at Concordia University and lives in Pointe-Claire, Québec.
- [Guy Birchard](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/guy-birchard/): Guy Birchard lives below the radar, perfectly disaffiliated, in Verwood, Saskatchewan.
- [Darren Bifford](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/darren-bifford/): Darren Bifford is the author of the chapbooks Wolf Hunter (Cactus Press, 2010), Hermit Crab (Baseline Press, 2014), and The Age of Revolution (Anstruther Press, 2017). His first full-length collection was Wedding in Fire Country (Nightwood Editions, 2012). He co-edited (with Warren Heiti) Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2015).
- [Julie Berry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/julie-berry/): Julie Berry lives in St. Thomas, Ontario.
- [Sheri Benning](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/sheri-benning/): Sheri Benning grew up on a small farm in central Saskatchewan and now lives in Saskatoon. She has also lived in St. Petersburg (Russia), Fredericton, and Edmonton. Her first book, Earth After Rain, won the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Prize (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and the Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award. An earlier version of Thin Moon
- [Rhonda Batchelor](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/rhonda-batchelor/): Rhonda Batchelor has worked in and around publishing, as a writer, editor, publisher, bookseller and consultant, since 1977. From 1990 to 1997 she and her late husband, the poet Charles Lillard operated Reference West, a small literary press publishing over 100 chapbooks of poetry and short fiction by some of Canada’s finest writers. Her own
- [John Barton](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/john-barton/): John Barton’s previous books include Great Men, Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis, and Hypothesis. West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait, his acclaimed third book, was republished in a bilingual edition in 2006. Co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, he lives in Victoria. Barton edited The Malahat Review for many years. Hymn
- [Margaret Avison](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/margaret-avison/): Margaret Avison was born in Ontario. She attended public school in Western Canada, high school and university in Toronto. She spent eight months in Chicago in 1956-57, on a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She has worked in libraries, publishing houses, universities, archives, and missions, was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1972-73. In 1985
- [Irfan Ali](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/irfan-ali/): Irfan Ali is a poet, essayist, writer, and educator. His short poetry collection, Who I Think About When I Think About You was shortlisted for the 2015 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Accretion is his first full-length work. Irfan was born, raised, and still lives in Toronto.
- [Louise B. Halfe — Sky Dancer](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/louise-b-halfe-sky-dancer/): Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer was raised on Saddle Lake Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. Her first book, Bear Bones & Feathers (Coteau, 1994), received the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. Blue Marrow (Coteau, 1998) was a
- [Bert Almon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/bert-almon/): Bert Almon won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry for Earth Prime (Brick) in 1998. He has been a Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry and a finalist in the Blackwell’s/Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire, Descant, Prism international, and Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Edmonton,
- [Andy Patton](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/andy-patton/)
- [Kim Maltman](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/kim-maltman/)
- [Marlene Creates](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/marlene-creates/)
- [Brent MacKay](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/brent-mackay/)
- [Marianne Bluger](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/marianne-bluger/)
- [Don Domanski](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/don-domanski/): Don Domanski (1950–2020) was born and raised in Sydney, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived briefly in Toronto, Vancouver and Wolfville, before settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived for most of his life. Author of nine collections of poetry, his work is infused with a deep and abiding interest in mythology, religion and esoteric
- [Avery Lake](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/avery-lake-2/): Avery Lake is a worker and writer living in occupied Tiohtià:ke. She attended Concordia University and is not in the scene.
- [Anne Marie Todkill](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/anne-marie-todkill-2/): Anne Marie Todkill has lived mainly in her home town, Ottawa, but has been setting down new roots in Wollaston Township, Ontario, where she lives off-grid with her husband. She spent many years as a medical and academic editor, but never strayed far from her lifelong, intersecting preoccupations with writing and the natural world. She has
- [Assiyah Jamilla Touré](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/assiyah-jamilla-toure-2/): Assiyah Jamilla Touré is a multidisciplinary artist of West African descent. They were born and raised on Skwxwú7mesh land and lived for many years in Kanien’kehà:ka territory (Montreal) and are now based on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Wendat (Toronto). In 2018 their chapbook feral was published by House
- [Bradley Peters](https://www.brickbooks.ca/author-bios/bradley-peters/): Bradley Peters is a poet, actor, and carpenter from Mission, BC. His poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines, has been shortlisted for The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Award, has twice been the runner-up for Subterrain's Lush Triumphant Award, and in 2019 placed first in Grain Magazine's Short Grain contest. Sonnets from a Cell is

## Events

- [Visiting With](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/visiting-with/): Join Vancouver poets Mercedes Eng and Cecily Nicholson in conversation with Toronto poets Jody Chan and Maysam Ghani for an afternoon of community-based poetry and conversation.
- [Why Not Poetry?](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/why-not-poetry/): A reading at Queen Books with John Barton and Jim Nason.
- [Brick Poetry Double Launch: Anna Swanson & Charlie Petch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/brick-poetry-double-launch-anna-swanson-charlie-petch/): Double launch of Anna Swanson's The Garbage Poems and Charlie Petch's Infinite Audition! With Alayna Munce, Qurat Dar, M'yz.
- [Poetry @ Silence with Charlie Petch, Anna Swanson, Lisa Baird, and Ziysah von Bieberstein](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/poetry-silence-with-charlie-petch-anna-swanson-lisa-baird-and-ziysah-von-bieberstein/): An unforgettable evening of poetry and performance to celebrate the release of two new poetry collections from Brick Books.
- [The Garbage Poems Book Launch at Iron Dog Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/the-garbage-poems-book-launch-at-iron-dog-books/): Celebrate the launch of The Garbage Poems with author Anna Swanson!
- [Montreal Launch of In a Riptide with Stephanie Bolster & Gillian Sze](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/montreal-launch-of-in-a-riptide-with-stephanie-bolster-gillian-sze/): A poetry book launch, celebrating the release of An Orange, A Syllable by Gillian Sze, Long Exposure by Stephanie Bolster, and In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom.
- [Ampersand Review's November Reading Series with Ronna Bloom and Charlie Petch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/ampersand-reviews-november-reading-series-with-ronna-bloom-and-charlie-petch/): The Ampersand Review Series is welcoming Brick Book author's Ronna Bloom and Charlie Petch at Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus.
- [Montreal Launch for In a Riptide](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/montreal-launch-for-in-a-riptide/): Join us for a poetry book launch, celebrating the release of AN ORANGE, A SYLLABLE (Sze), LONG EXPOSURE (Bolster), and IN A RIPTIDE (Bloom).
- [Al Purdy A-frame Alumni Chapbook Launch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/al-purdy-a-frame-alumni-chapbook-launch/): Join recent alumni in launching a new chapbook that celebrates Al Purdy’s influence, his legacy, and how the A-frame continues to serve as a community gathering place for writers.
- [Infinite Audition Book Launch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/infinite-audition-book-launch/): A most theatrical book launch, with music by Janice Jo Lee, monologues performed by five amazing actors, and Charlie will do a set of poems
- [Writers x Brick Books: 50 Years of Canadian Poetry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/writers-x-brick-books-50-years-of-canadian-poetry/): Join us as Brick Books celebrates 50 years of publishing Canadian poetry with a special event at Writers at Woody Point, honouring the past, present, and future of poetry - especially as it lives and thrives in Newfoundland and Labrador. Hosted by Michael Crummey - one of Brick’s most beloved and internationally recognized authors, and
- [Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) CXIII](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/shab-e-sher-poetry-night-cxiii/): Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Canada’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series. Featured poets: Ronna Bloom & Mbonisi Zikhali Zomkhonto + Open Mic for poetry in any language
- [Happy 50th Anniversary](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/happy-50th-anniversary/): Join Brick Books for a celebratory reading of your favourite Brick Books poems (BYOBrickPoem) at the Al-Purdy A-Frame. Reach out to us for more details!
- [Estlin McPhee Book Launch at McNally Robinson in Saskatoon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/estlin-mcphee-book-launch-at-mcnally-robinson-in-saskatoon/): Join poet Estlin McPhee for the Saskatoon launch of their debut collection In Your Nature (Brick Books), with special guests Leah Horlick and Rowan F. Neufeld. This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
- [Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek at LitLive Reading Series in Hamilton](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/christine-wu-jessica-bebenek-at-litlive-reading-series-in-hamilton/): LitLive Reading Series presents Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers. Christine will read alongside Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press).
- [Planet Earth Poetry's Community Writing Practice with Estlin McPhee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/planet-earth-poetrys-community-writing-practice-with-estlin-mcphee/): Join Planet Earth Poetry’s Writing Practice on Zoom with guest Estlin McPhee, author of In Your Nature. Writing Practice is free to attend — please feel free to invite a friend and share these Zoom credentials with them. There will be exercises, discussion, and silent time to write together. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4946604447?pwd=MnZDYjkrQWxMMnRpMkhaSmFNekxmdz09#success Meeting ID: 494 660
- [Estlin McPhee Reads From In Your Nature at Russell Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/estlin-mcphee-reads-from-in-your-nature-at-russell-books/): Discover the poetry of Estlin McPhee, author of In Your Nature, on Friday, May 23, at Russell Books. Estlin will be joined by another featured poet, Arleen Paré. Doors at 7:00 pm, event starts at 7:30 pm. The event will also be livestreamed.
- [Dual Book Launch at mai/son with Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dual-book-launch-at-mai-son-with-christine-wu-jessica-bebenek/): mai/son presents the Montréal co-launch of Jessica Bebenek’s No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press) and Christine Wu’s Familial Hungers. With special guests Liz Howard and Andrew Whiteman.
- [Dual Book Launch at Another Story Bookshop with Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dual-book-launch-at-another-story-bookshop-with-christine-wu-jessica-bebenek/): Another Story Bookshop presents the Toronto co-launch of Jessica Bebenek’s No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press) and Christine Wu’s Familial Hungers. Also featuring guest reader Terese Mason Pierre, author of Myth.
- [Poetry Night at the Barrie Public Library with Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/poetry-night-at-the-barrie-public-library-with-christine-wu-jessica-bebenek/): Barrie Public Library presents Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers. Christine will be reading alongside Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press).
- [Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek at Outer Haven Poetry Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/christine-wu-jessica-bebenek-at-outer-haven-poetry-series/): Outer Haven Poetry Series presents readings from Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers, and Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press).
- [Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek at Little Wren Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/christine-wu-jessica-bebenek-at-little-wren-books/): Little Wren Books presents readings from Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers, and Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press).
- [Double Book Launch: In Your Nature & Tabako on the Windowsill](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/double-book-launch-in-your-nature-tabako-on-the-windowsill/): You’re invited to a double launch of In Your Nature and Tabako on the Windowsill, new poetry collections by Brick Books authors Estlin McPhee and Hari Alluri. Celebrate with the authors and featured guests Cassandra Blanchard and Zena Sharman. Doors 6:00 PM, readings start promptly at 6:15 PM. Books will be for sale via cash
- [Dual Book Launch at Perfect Books with Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dual-book-launch-at-perfect-books-with-christine-wu-jessica-bebenek/): Perfect Books presents the Ottawa co-launch of Jessica Bebenek’s No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press) and Christine Wu’s Familial Hungers. With special guest Ellen Chang-Richardson, author of Blood Belies.
- [‘The Catch Up’ Reading Series with Christine Wu, Annick MacAskill, and Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/the-catch-up-reading-series-with-christine-wu-annick-macaskill-and-jessica-bebenek/): Fredericton's monthly reading series, 'The Catch-Up,' curated and hosted by acclaimed writer Fawn Parker, returns with a special 'Poetry Month' spectacular featuring visiting poets Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers, Annick MacAskill, author of Votive (Gaspereau Press), and Jessica Bebenek, No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press)!
- [LaHave River Books Presents a Triple Book Launch with Christine Wu, Jessica Hiemstra, and Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/lahave-river-books-presents-a-triple-book-launch-with-christine-wu-jessica-hiemstra-and-jessica-bebenek/): LaHave River Books Presents a Triple Book Launch with Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers, Jessica Hiemstra, author of Blood Root (Goose Lane Editions), and Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press). Cory Lavender, author of Come One Thing Another, will give an introduction.
- [Dual Book Launch at Trident Booksellers and Cafe with Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dual-book-launch-at-trident-booksellers-and-cafe-with-christine-wu-jessica-bebenek/): Trident Booksellers and Cafe presents the Halifax launch of Christine Wu’s Familiar Hungers and Jessica Bebenek’s No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press).The event will be hosted by Clare Goulet.
- [Dual Book Launch & Poetry Reading at Librairie Pulp Books & Café with Louise Marois, Manahil Bandukwala, D.M. Bradford, Faith Paré, and Misha Solomon](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dual-book-launch-poetry-reading-at-librairie-pulp-books-cafe-with-louise-marois-manahil-bandukwala-d-m-bradford-faith-pare-and-misha-solomon/): Ring of Dust by Louise Marois, translated by D.M. Bradford, and Heliotropia by Manahil Bandukwala will have a dual book launch and reading at Librairie Pulp Books & Café. Join Louise Marois, D.M. Bradford, Manahil Bandukwala, and special guests Faith Paré and Misha Solomon, for a night of poetry reading. Doors open at 6:45pm.
- [Block Shop Books Poetry Reading with Christine Wu & Jessica Bebenek](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/block-shop-books-poetry-reading-with-christine-wu-jessica-bebenek/): Block Shop Books presents Christine Wu, author of Familial Hungers, and Jessica Bebenek, author of No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press), for a dual reading of their new poetry releases.
- [Marc Perez Reads from Dayo for The Whole Cloth Reading Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/marc-perez-reads-from-dayo-for-the-whole-cloth-reading-series/): Marc Perez will read the entirety of Dayo at The Whole Cloth Reading Series. Jan 22 at 5pm, Coach House, Green College UBC.
- [Jody Chan Reads at Speakeasy Reading Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/jody-chan-reads-at-speakeasy-reading-series/): Catch Brick Poet Jody Chan reading @ Glad Day Bookshop & on Zoom on January 15th at 7PM.
- [Virtual Reading with Jane Shi and Manahil Bandukwala](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/virtual-reading-with-jane-shi-and-manahil-bandukwala/): Join Jane Shi and Manahil Bandukwala as they read from their recent releases on December 12th 7PM EST. Please register ahead via Zoom link invitation at palimpsestpress.ca
- [Manahil Bandukwala Reads for Angel Reading Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/manahil-bandukwala-reads-for-angel-reading-series/): Manahil Bandukwala Reads for Angel Reading Series alongside Sydney Hegele, Danila Botha, Chido Muchemwa, and Nina Dunic! Arts and Letters Club of Toronto 14 Elm Street, Toronto December 6th, 2024 7PM
- [Triple Poetry Launch: Daddy, Heliotropia, and Bad Weather Mammals](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/triple-poetry-launch-daddy-heliotropia-and-bad-weather-mammals/): Join two Brick authors Manahil Bandukwala and Jake Byrne (and ECW author A-E Best) as they launch their newest collections! Tuesday, November 26th, 7PM @ Argo Bookshop.
- [Emily Austin at Kingston WritersFest!](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/emily-austin-at-kingston-writersfest/): Event 18: Terrible People and Wild Failures September 28, 2024 2:15 – 3:15 pm Black holes, bad dates, true crime, strip clubs and peladophobia. Join authors Emily Austin and Zoe Whittall for an exploration of space – outer and inner, queer intimacy, disconnection, grief, and the human desire to be loved while grappling with
- [Marilyn Dumont is launching SOUTH SIDE OF A KINLESS RIVER at Paper Birch Books!](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/marilyn-dumont-is-launching-south-side-of-a-kinless-river-at-paper-birch-books/): On September 27, Marilyn Dumont is launching SOUTH SIDE OF A KINLESS RIVER at Paper Birch Books! Registration is required: https://lu.ma/t2mlrf6y
- [Sneha Madhavan-Reese Reads from Elementary Particles](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/sneha-madhavan-reese-reads-from-elementary-particles/): Join us at Another Story Bookshop to hear Sneha Madhavan-Reese Read from Elementary Particles Tuesday September 17 at 7:00pm. 315 Roncesvalles Ave.
- [Launch of Echolalia Echolalia at Massy Arts Society with Jody Chan](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/launch-of-echolalia-echolalia-at-massy-arts-society-with-jody-chan/): Join us Thursday, October 17, 6:00pm-8:00pm PST for the launch of Echolalia Echolalia. Hosted by Mercedes Eng with Jody Chan reading.
- [Jane Shi at The Parlor, Pioneer Square, Open Books: A Poem Emporium](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/jane-shi-at-the-parlor-pioneer-square-open-books-a-poem-emporium/): A book-signing with a potential public facing component. 108 Cherry Street Seattle, WA 98104
- [Jane Shi at Word Vancouver Festival](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/jane-shi-at-word-vancouver-festival/): Saturday, September 28, 2024 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST Word Vancouver Festival UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street Vancouver, BC, V5S 0G4 "Join four dynamic queer poets for short readings and a discussion about the craft of writing poetry. Location: Poetry Tent Type: Poetry, Panel, Guest LGBTQIA2S+ Curator Jen Currin Programming Moderator: Guest
- [Joint Launch for Heliotropia and DADDY in Ottawa at The Manx Pub](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/joint-launch-for-heliotropia-and-daddy-in-ottawa-at-the-manx-pub/): Join us for the launch of Heliotropia and DADDY on Saturday, September 21, 5-6pm! The Manx, 370 Elgin Street with Plan 99 Reading Series and hosted by David O'Meara
- [Toronto Launch of Heliotropia and DADDY](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/toronto-launch-of-heliotropia-and-daddy/): Join us for the Toronto launch of Heliotropia and DADDY at Another Story Bookshop Friday October 4th, 7:00pm-9:00pm.
- [Marc Perez Reads at Small Gods Storyteller Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/marc-perez-reads-at-small-gods-storyteller-series/): See Marc Perez read from Dayo at Small Gods Storyteller Series on July 22 at 6pm at Small Gods Brewing Co. 9835 Third Street Sidney, BC V8L 3A7.
- [Sneha Madhavan Reese Reads in Picton!](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/sneha-madhavan-reese-reads-in-picton/): Join us to hear Sneha Madhavan Reese read from Elementary Particles at P.E.P Rally in Picton! Thursday, July 18th @ 6:30pm at Books & Company The reading also features Matthew Tierney and Spencer Gordon.
- [Marc Perez at FILIPINO-CANADIAN BOOK FESTIVAL 2024](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/marc-perez-at-filipino-canadian-book-festival-2024/): //SATURDAY, JULY 13th// Join us in celebration of the inaugural Filipino-Canadian Book Festival July 12-14th 2024 in partnership with Massy Books, PilipinxPages and Sampaguita Press and guest Keynote Catherine Hernandez. 12:45-1:55 The Poetry Prism--Shaping Realities: Join this panel of poets as we try to hold poetry to the light and see what colors it makes. They'll discuss
- [Marc Perez Reads from Dayo at SFU Library](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/marc-perez-reads-from-dayo-at-sfu-library/): Join us to hear Marc Perez will be reading with Kevin Spenst at SFU Library in Surrey, BC at 6:00PM
- [Marc Perez Reads from Dayo at Planet Earth Poetry at Russell Books in Downtown Victoria](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/marc-perez-reads-from-dayo-at-planet-earth-poetry-at-russell-books-in-downtown-victoria/): Hear Marc Perez read from Dayo on FRIDAY, MAY 31 @ 7:30pm LIVE EVENTS are open to the public and wheelchair accessible: 7:30pm Russell Books 100-747 Fort Street, Downtown Victoria, BC Doors at 7pm, open mic sign up IN PERSON 7-7:20pm
- [2024 LCP Shortlist Reading Featuring Brick Authors!](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/2024-lcp-shortlist-reading-featuring-brick-authors/): Congratulations to Darby Minott Bradford and Bradley Peters on being shortlisted for The League of Canadian Poets Raymond Souster Award! Make sure to attend the shortlist reading on Apr 30, 2024, 08:00 PM on Zoom. Register at the link below! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpd--qqTkiHt0xueYbsOq3ciBSHtMquHAv?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR29-3EHISitktoYbE98l1foh5oyh4EkZpxwSITvO3EiS9hgsBNdO6TPFiY_aem_AaCJoU3m7QbiBriqDCA2-H1bMhr3pP2lQyTHaN3OgUkIUUM_-hHqFdesNgY_Ga8kRB2Pb8J8w6Nv39wL88_Op7uv#/registration
- [Montreal Launch of Impact Statement](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/montreal-launch-of-impact-statement/): Join us in celebrating the launch of impact statement by Jody Chan, featuring readings by H Felix Chau Bradley and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. No registration required! Access info: ~ This is a masked event; masks will be provided. ~ articule is located in a ground floor commercial building in Villeray neighbourhood. There are no
- [Book Launch for Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/book-launch-for-emily-austins-gay-girl-prayers/): Join us at Indigo's Pinecrest location (Pinecrest Shopping Centre, 2735 Iris Ottawa) for the launch of Emily Austin's widely celebrated collection of poetry, Gay Girl Prayers!
- [Poetry Workshop: All This Stuff — Personal forms and found materials](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/poetry-workshop-all-this-stuff-personal-forms-and-found-materials/): From the knick-knacky to family ephemera to the downright historical, Darby Minott Bradford has a lot of love for found materials. Participants are encouraged to bring their own collection of textual materials to work with, whether they be bits of past work, hoarded song lyrics or quotations, curiosities from the archive, or another rich trove
- [Geographies of the Imagination New Voices in Canadian Poetry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/geographies-of-the-imagination-new-voices-in-canadian-poetry/): Wednesday April 10th, 2024 @ 7:00PM - 9:00PM at Another Story Bookshop featuring readings from DM Bradford, Canisia Lubrin, and Christin Wu.
- [Toronto Launch of Jody Chan's Impact Statement](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/toronto-launch-of-jody-chans-impact-statement/): Join us for Jody Chan's Toronto launch of Impact Statement on Tuesday, April 23 - 7:00-8:30PM at Studio RAW - 1220 Dupont St. The reading and conversation features Bahar Orang, Rob Colgate, and Sanna Wani, and a performance by RAW Taiko Drummers; followed by a collective writing ritual and meditative soundscape. Access information:
- [Jan Conn Reading at Novel Idea with Jane Munro and Y.S. Lee](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/jan-conn-reading-at-novel-idea-with-jane-munro-and-y-s-lee/): Join us to hear Jan Conn read from, Peony Vertigo on Sunday April 21, at 5pm at Novel Idea in Kingston! Guest readers include Jane Munro and Y.S.Lee.
- [Vancouver Book Launch for Marc Perez's Dayo](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/vancouver-book-launch-for-marc-perezs-dayo/): Join us for Marc Perez's Vancouver launch of Dayo on Friday, April 5th at 6pm at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver. Guest readers include Jen Currin, Jane Shi, Hari Alluri, and Bradley Peters. Registration is free and required for entrance.
- [Brick Authors at VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival, March 21-24, 2024](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/brick-authors-at-versefest-ottawas-international-poetry-festival-march-21-24-2024/): Check out Brick authors, Sneha Madhaven-Reese, Monty Reid, and David O’Meara at VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival, March 21-24, 2024! Thursday, March 21, 2024: Avant-Garde Bar, 135 Besserer Street, 7pm Anita Lahey, Monty Reid, Marjorie Silverman, Laila Malik hosted by Jennifer Baker / Arc Poetry Magazine, Daniel Groleau Londry, nina jane drystek,
- [Sneha Madhavan-Reese Reads at SFU's Lunch Poems](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/sneha-madhavan-reese-reads-at-sfus-lunch-poems/): Join us to hear Sneha Madhavan-Reese read at SFU's Lunch Poems at SFU's Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver, BC.
- [Sneha Madhavan-Reese Reads at Planet Earth Poetry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/sneha-madhavan-reese-reads-at-planet-earth-poetry/): Join us to hear Sneha Madhavan-Reese read on February 16, 2pm at Russell Books, Victoria, BC.
- [DM Bradford Reading at Halifax Central Library Branch](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dm-bradford-reading-at-halifax-central-library-branch/): Join us to hear DM Bradford Read at Halifax Central Library Branch on February 8 with Annick MacAskill and Nanci Lee.
- [DM Bradford Reads at Laundromat Expresso Bar, Hosted by Frye Festival](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dm-bradford-reads-at-laundromat-expresso-bar-hosted-by-frye-festival/): Join us for a reading and in-conversation event with poet and translator D.M. Bradford, as part of their tour for Bottom Rail on Top (Brick Books, 2023). The event, which will take place on February 3 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm at laundromat espresso bar(382 St. George Street), will be moderated by Noel Bourque. The event
- [DM Bradford at The Art Bar Poetry Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dm-bradford-at-the-art-bar-poetry-series/): The Art Bar Poetry Series presents DM Bradford on January 29, 2024. The Art Bar is a weekly poetry reading series held every Tuesday, at The Free Times Cafe, 320 College St. in Toronto at 8 p.m. The evening includes three featured readers, plus an open mic. $5 cover.
- [Calgary Launch: Sneha Madhavan-Reese's Elementary Particles](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/calgary-launch-sneha-madhavan-reeses-elementary-particles/): Shelf Life Books presents the Calgary book launch of Sneha Madhavan-Reese's new poetry collection Elementary Particles, with special guest Samantha Jones. Join us for an evening of readings and conversation, and pick up your signed copy. Thursday November 30 7pm-9pm.
- [D.M. Bradford Reads at Shelf Life Books with Suzette Mayr](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/d-m-bradford-reads-at-shelf-life-books-with-suzette-mayr/): Join poet D.M. Bradford in celebrating the release of Bottom Rail on Top (Brick Books, 2023) with an evening of readings and one-on-one conversation with Suzette Mayr, author of The Sleeping Car Porter (Coach House Books, 2022). The authors will discuss the new work and their respective experiences with reimagining and writing into Black and queer historical landscapes. Wednesday,
- [D.M. Bradford Launches in Windsor](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/d-m-bradford-launches-in-windsor-with-readings-by-d-a-lockhart-and-anahita-jamali-rad/): D.M. Bradford Launches in Windsor with Readings By D.A. Lockhart and Anahita Jamali Rad on Friday November 24, 7:00 pm at Chapter Two Brewing Company in Windsor.
- [Sneha Madhavan-Reese's Reads at Audreys Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/sneha-madhavan-reeses-reads-at-audreys-books/): Join us at Audreys on Wednesday, November 29, at 7 pm for the launch of Sneha Madhavan-Reese's new poetry collection, Elementary Particles. She will be joined by special guest Jennifer Bowering Delisle, author of the book Micrographia.
- [D.M. Bradford reads at Antler River Poetry Series](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/d-m-bradford-reads-at-antler-river-poetry-series/): D.M. Bradford reads from Bottom Rail on Top on Wednesday November 22, 7:00pm at the Landon Branch Library (167 Wortley Road, London, ON).
- [Tyler Pennock Reads from Blood at the Art Bar](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/tyler-pennock-reads-from-blood-at-the-art-bar/): Tyler Pennock joins Tanis MacDonald and Frances Boyle at Free Times Cafe.
- [Brick Books at Indie Literary Market](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/brick-books-at-indie-literary-market/): Brick Books is participating as a vendor at The Indie Literary Market at Sheridan College,at the Hazel McCallion campus at 4180 Duke of York Boulevard, Mississauga. The event will be held in B-wing Creativity Commons.
- [Bradley Peters Launches Sonnets from a Cell at Massy Arts Society](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/bradley-peters-launches-sonnets-from-a-cell-at-massy-arts-society/): Bradley launches Sonnets of a Cell with guest readers Nick Thran, Rob Taylor, Kayla Czaga and Marc Perez.
- [D.M. Bradford at Planet Earth](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/d-m-bradford-at-planet-earth/): D.M. Bradford reads from Bottom Rail on Top in Victoria.
- [D.M. Bradford and Jordan Able at the University of Alberta](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/d-m-bradford-and-jordan-able-at-the-university-of-alberta/): Readings and Discussions from Bottom Rail on Top and Empty Spaces at the University of Alberta.
- [Sneha Madhavan-Reese at Bookfest Windsor](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/sneha-madhavan-reese-at-bookfest-windsor/): Poetry Cafe.
- [Jan Conn at Bookfest Windsor](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/jan-conn-at-bookfest-windsor/): Conversations with Poets.
- [Erin Noteboom at TIFA](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/erin-noteboom-at-tifa/): The Science of Poetry. Erin Noteboom in conversation with Patrick Errington.
- [Jan Conn Launches Peony Vertigo](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/jan-conn-launches-peony-vertigo/): Jan Conn launches Peony Vertigo with fellow poet and painter Kathline Carr.
- [Tyler Pennock at Antler River Poetry](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/tyler-pennock-at-antler-river-poetry/): Tyler Pennock reads from Blood on Wednesday September 20th, 7:00pm at the Landon Branch Library (167 Wortley Road, London, ON). The event will also feature songwriter Brock Stonefish.
- [Justene Dion-Glowa and Trailer Park Shakes at the Whistler Writers Fest](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/justene-dion-glowa-and-trailer-park-shakes-at-the-whistler-writers-fest/): Justene joins the literary caberet, complete with jazz band, reading from Trailer Park Shakes.
- [Amy Lam Reads from Baby Book in NYC](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/amy-lam-reads-from-baby-book-in-nyc/): Amy Lam reads from Baby Book.
- [Shaun Robinson at Massy Arts Society](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/shaun-robinson-at-massy-arts-society/): Part of the "Did You MIss Me? A Recent Release Reading: Poetry and short stories that were launched during the Pandemic." ALso featuring Molly Cross-Blanchard, Selina Boan, and Christopher Evans.
- [Amy Lam Reads from Baby Book at Queen Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/amy-lam-reads-from-baby-book-at-queen-books/): Amy Lam reads with Claire Geddes Bailey, Lisa Smolkin, and Lily Wang.
- [DM Bradford and Bottom Rail on Top at Flying Books](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dm-bradford-and-bottom-rail-on-top-at-flying-books/): DM Bradford in reading and conversation with Zoe Imani Sharpe Faith Arkoful.
- [DM Bradford and Bottom Rail on Top at The Glass Bookshop](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dm-bradford-and-bottom-rail-on-top-at-the-glass-bookshop/): DM reads with T. Liem and Kaitlin Purcell.
- [Bottom Rail on Top: Quebec City Book Launch and Readings](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/bottom-rail-on-top-quebec-city-book-launch-and-readings/): DM Bradford, Tess Liem, Pascale Bérubé, and Simon Brown read.
- [DM Bradford reads from Bottom Rail on Top](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/dm-bradford-reads-from-bottom-rail-on-top/): Darby and guests read and converse.
- [Book Launch: Optic Nerve](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/book-launch-optic-nerve/): Join Matthew Hollett and readers Mark Callanan and Amy Donovan for the launch of Optic Nerve.
- [Home in the House: On D.M. Bradford Translating Nicholas Dawson](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/home-in-the-house-on-d-m-bradford-translating-nicholas-dawson/): To celebrate the publication of DM Bradford’s English translation of Nicholas Dawson’s heralded Désormais, ma demeure, writer H Felix Chau Bradley gathers Bradford alongside author Nicholas Dawson and translator-editor Erín Moure for a conversation on the work that went into House Within a House, a book that weaves prose poetry, essay, autobiography and photography in
- [Speculative Poetry with Manahil Bandukwala, Ai Jiang, Lynne Sargent, and Millie Ho](https://www.brickbooks.ca/event/speculative-poetry-with-manahil-bandukwala-ai-jiang-lynne-sargent-and-millie-ho/): From science fiction to mythology to that lingering feeling of dreams, poetry can be speculative too! Whether it’s fairy tales in verse or a world created in a few tight stanzas, these poets explore the fantastical through the poetic. Moderated by Millie Ho. MONUMENT by Manahil Bandukwala MONUMENT upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire
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