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Congratulations to Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Halifax, N.S.), Tricia Dower (Victoria, B.C.), and Melissa Jacques (Edmonton, AB) on winning The Malahat Review’s inaugural 2010 Open Season Awards in the Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-fiction categories respectively. Read more...
Finely crafted divagations – Michael Kenyon explores the meaning of home in a new collection Read more...
DECADE’S BEST: Ten Best Books of the Aughts - From head-scratching poems to social collapse, the best from the printed page. Read more...
On-line literary magazine ditch includes 9 poems excerpted from Other People’s Lives in anthology 3 (canadian men) (innovative poets) Read more...
Hooked in house – Wine and dine with seven unforgettable women. One actress… Seven formidable women. Seven dishes. All served up in a home. This is HOOKED IN HOUSE. Seven dramatic monologues by Carolyn Smart, performed by Nicky Guadagni alongside the exquisite food offerings of Sandy Balcovske. Read more...
35TH ANNIVERSARY SALE – Happy New Year, one and all!! And Happy Birthday to Brick Books!!! 35 Years & Going Strong!!!! Read more...
And farewell to Paul Quarrington, a friend of Brick Books, who passed away in Toronto on January 21. He was a very special guy. Many tributes have appeared including the following at the Toronto Star, the Canadian Press, the Globe and Mail: Read more...
Award-winning poet and artist P.K. Page died at home on January 14 in Victoria, BC. Read more...
In “Books 2009, Part 1″ on his blog BELOW THE SPRUCE, poet Stephen Rowe writes about books he has read in 2009 – Breaker, Sue Sinclair: I had a chance to hear Sue Sinclair read at the March Hare literary festival in Gander his year and must say I enjoyed it immensely. I found this collection more accessible than Mortal Arguments and splendidly written. Highs: Sinclair can balance the worlds of flesh and spirit expertly and does not shy away from some words (e.g.: beauty) that can lead poets down the cliché highway, since she applies a freshness to them each time. Read more...
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