BRICK BOOK CLUB 2010
How would you like to receive the new 2010 poetry books as soon as they are published? And delivered directly to your home? How convenient!!
And all for the low price of $120 – a savings of just over 25% [taxes and shipping included].
Lost Gospels by Lorri Neilsen Glenn - Poems of great loss and deep questioning, wringing beauty out of potential despair. Lost Gospels confirms Neilsen Glenn as a poet of maturity, depth and power.
“Here’s a book charged with electricity. The twang of country music, the ripeness of ‘berry, leaf, fruit,’ the fierce clarity of Simone Weil’s philosophy—Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poetry exhorts us to ‘Wake every chance you can.’ ‘Carry light,’ she says, and we do, reading her blazing words.” – Anne Simpson
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author of three previous collections of poetry, including Combustion (Brick Books, 2007). An award-winning ethnographer and essayist, she is the author and editor of six books on research and literacy, a forthcoming collection of essays on loss, and an anthology about mothers. Poet Laureate for Halifax from 2005-2009, Lorri lives and works in Halifax, and returns often to the Prairies where she was born.
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph - Transparent poems that gesture gracefully toward the great silence at the heart of things.
“…Eve Joseph’s craft and attention, her choice of the perfect word, give a kind of holiness to the song of everyday life. And if some of these poems are honed down to their elegant bones, others are expansive and wide open…” – Patricia Young
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 Award.
Alien, Correspondent by Antony Di Nardo – These astute, generous poems give us contemporary Beirut in all its ravaged and incongruent beauty. This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives and works in that remarkable city.
“Time and space are lenses Di Nardo overlays to bring Beirut into historic and personal focus… Evidence of violence abounds here, as does love, and Di Nardo epitomizes, like Cavafy, the empathy required to be its perfect correspondent.” – John Barton
Antony Di Nardo was born in Montreal and has lived in southern and northwestern Ontario, Toronto, the Eastern Townships, and Germany. He now lives in Oshawa although he has been teaching in Beirut for the past three years at the International College. His poetry appears widely in journals across Canada and internationally.
The Good News About Armageddon by Steve McOrmond - Poems that occupy the difficult territory of contemporary crisis with great candour and trenchant wit. Shedding illusions, but equally refusing the consolations of despair, McOrmond’s well-tempered satire is carried home on its own crisp music.
“A metaphysical wit and a self-mocking humour leaven this often dark account of the calamity that is our contemporary way of living. In his own distinctive way, Steve McOrmond… [weaves] in these technically deft lyric pieces a kind of post-modernist jeremiad.” – Mary Dalton
Steve McOrmond’s first collection, Lean Days (2004), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. His second, Primer on the Hereafter (2006), was awarded the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he now lives in Toronto.
Return from Erebus by Julia McCarthy – Poems that map the mythic dimensions of the ordinary with fluent, quiet urgency. Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy’s Return from Erebus.
“It’s immediately evident when you start reading this collection that these poems are testimonies to a poet who can straddle internal/external realities with complete eloquence… McCarthy’s voice is authoritative and subtle, rich with the resonances of lived experiences that are actualized, and laid out before the reader in a superb embodiment of attentiveness… Reading this book makes me ecstatic about poetry.” – Don Domanski
Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the United States, most notably Alaska and Georgia. She has also lived in Norway and spent significant time in South Africa. Her previous collection of poetry, Stormthrower, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2002. She now resides in Nova Scotia where she works as a freelance writer and editor.
That Other Beauty by Karen Enns – An exquisitely musical and meditative new voice in Canadian poetry. In her debut collection, Karen Enns’ focus is the beauty present to us in almost every moment, however mundane or apparently lost. Her argument is that the act of attention itself is the most fundamental of these beauties.
“Karen Enns is a gift to what I can only call song, an offering to ‘the wide open mouth of the heart.’ ” – Patrick Lane
Karen Enns is from southern Ontario, where she was born and raised in a Mennonite farm community. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, PRISM international and The Malahat Review. She lives in Victoria, B.C.
The Fetch by Nico Rogers - A book of voices arising out of the lives of people who populated outport Newfoundland. Drawing on family recollections, interviews with elders and extensive research in archives and regional museums, The Fetch, Nico Rogers’ first book, is a compelling volume of tales and prose poems that contains a broad range of characters.
Nico Rogers is a storyteller and performance artist, and has appeared at writing and folk festivals across the country, as well as on TV and radio. He has taught writing and literature in post-secondary institutions in Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Edmonton and now lives in Toronto, where he is working on a novel which will be a thematic continuation of The Fetch.
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There are 2 ways to join the Brick Book Club for 2010:
1. Send a cheque for $120 to Brick Books, Box 20081, 431 Boler Road, London, ON N6K 4G6. Please include your name and mailing address. We will take care of the rest……
2. If you would like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card, send me a message at brick.books@sympatico.ca and I can guide you through this process on our website.
Welcome to the Brick Book Club!!!
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Welcome to the Brick Book Club!!!
Brick Book Club 2009
You can receive all 7 poetry books published in 2009 delivered directly to your home. How convenient!!
And all for the low price of $120 – a savings of just over 25% [taxes and shipping included].
Hooked, seven poems by Carolyn Smart
An elegant and sinister collection of dramatic monologues. Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles, and Elizabeth Smart. Each of these women was hooked on, and her life contorted by, an addiction or obsession.
Carolyn Smart teaches creative writing at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This is her 5th poetry collection.
Botero’s Beautiful Horses by Jan Conn
“Every drawer in every chest overflows with illogic and passion.” The poems of Botero’s Beautiful Horses are charged with otherness, bright with the exhilaration and danger of transformation. Many are descriptions of surrealist canvases, astonishingly kinetic narratives composed by looking hard at unusual pictures, the artists’ writings and their circumstances—and letting them speak for themselves. The book becomes a journey away from the familiar into other cultures, especially Latin American.
Jan Conn works as a research scientist and lives in Massachusetts. This is her 7th poetry collection.
Love Outlandish by Barry Dempster
A love affair chronicled – from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith. In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the clichés that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his work, explores their torrents and eddies afresh.
This is Barry’s 10th poetry collection. He lives north of Toronto.
Other People’s Lives by Chris Hutchinson
Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land between self and others, introspection and public life.
Chris Hutchinson teaches at Okanagan College in Kelowna. This is his second poetry collection.
Hymn by John Barton
Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes John Barton documents the path of the male body in an increasingly unstable, supposedly tolerant contemporary world.
John Barton is editor of the Malahat Review. This is his 9th poetry collection.
Could be by Heather Cadsby
Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life. In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life, friendships and art.
Heather Cadsby has recently served as a director of the Art Bar Poetry Series. Could be is her fourth book of poetry.
The Last House by Michael Kenyon
Poems of disturbing beauty, examining personal and collective loss. His poetry and fiction have always been alert to the underside, the angularity of the outcast, those forced by temperament or predilection or circumstance to the fringes of middle class life.
Michael Kenyon divides his week between Pender Island and Vancouver, having in both places a private therapeutic practice. This is Michael Kenyon’s third full-length collection of poems.
There are 2 ways to join the Brick Book Club for 2009:
- Send a cheque for $120 to Brick Books, Box 20081, 431 Boler Road, London, ON N6K 4G6. Please include your name and mailing address. We will take care of the rest…
- If you would like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card, click the button below and I will receive and process your order.
Welcome to the Brick Book Club!!!
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Past Brick Book Club packages
Brick Book Club 2008 – $120
You can receive all 7 poetry books published in 2008 delivered directly to your home. How convenient!!
And all for the low price of $120 – a savings of just over 25% [taxes and shipping included].
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs of Corner Brook, Newfoundland – his second poetry collection. - A hockey saga, wrapping the game’s story in the “intense, moody, contradictory” character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies, in compact, conversational poems. With 12 archival photographs. Launched at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto on February 19, 2008.
Spirit Engine by John Donlan of Vancouver and Godfrey, Ontario – his 4th collection. A kind of “spiritual diary” showing the connection between human consciousness and the natural world in short intense lyric poems marked by musicality and beauty.
Daughters of Men by Brenda Leifso of Calgary and Vancouver – her first collection. Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course through every life.
The Luskville Reductions by Monty Reid of Ottawa – his 14th book. Records a year in the life lived in a small Quebec town, details of shifting seasons and the marriage that disintegrates there. Spare and beautiful.
Cypress by Barbara Klar of Ruddell, Saskatchewan – her 3rd poetry collection. A poetic vision quest and pilgrimage into the numinous presence of the Cypress Hills.
Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O’Meara of Ottawa – his 3rd poetry collection. Lucid accurate detail and music at every turn.
Breaker by Sue Sinclair of Toronto – her 4th poetry collection. The essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.
There are 2 ways to join the Brick Book Club for 2008:
- Send a cheque for $120 to Brick Books, Box 20081, 431 Boler Road, London, ON N6K 4G6. Please include your name and mailing address. We will take care of the rest…
- If you would like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card, click the button below and I will receive and process your order.
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Welcome to the Brick Book Club!!
Brick Book Club 2007 – $120
You can receive all 7 poetry books published in 2007 delivered directly to your home. How convenient!!
And all for the low price of $120 – a savings of just over 25% [taxes and shipping included].
Going Around with Bachelors by Agnes Walsh – 2nd book. The spirit of the departed – source, origin, heritage, history – is the essence of this book, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech. Includes a bonus CD of Agnes reading a selection of her poems. Agnes is poet laureate of St. John’s, Newfoundland
Combustion by Lorri Neilsen Glenn – 2nd book. Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poems welcome the reader into a place where the strange is made familiar and the familiar reveals its own magic. Lorri is poet laureate of Halifax.
Torch River by Elizabeth Philips – 4th poetry collection. Sylvia Legris says “Torch River is a shimmery ‘weaving of what is seen/with what is imagined.’…”
All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski – 9th poetry book. Mark Strand says about this collection – “Each poem, beautiful, bewitching, unfolds with crystalline clarity and with a music that is both lush and subtle. Don Domanski’s poems are intimate, but intimate on a grand scale. As far as I am concerned, there is no better poet writing in English.”
Two Hemispheres by Nadine McInnis – 5th poetry book. Nadine McInnis describes her first encounter with the remarkable photographs that intersperse this moving volume of poetry. Patients of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum in the mid nineteenth-century, these women’s names and stories are lost to history. But in an act of recovery, in several senses of the word, McInnis gives them life and depth and character. The result is a deeply honest, compassionate and moving work, one informed by personal, social and medical history.
Thin Moon Psalm by Sheri Benning – 2nd book. Rapt, musical, passionately engaged, the fierce and delicate poems in this collection move towards their own inner stillness, while also bearing witness to the power of relatedness – to family, lovers, and the prairie landscape itself.
Woodshedding by S.E. Venart - First book. Woodshedding, a blues term for arduous private rehearsal/practice, is here adapted to the craft of poetry. These poems, which grow out of a period of solitude, will appeal to the introspective reader wrestling with how to proceed with honesty and strength in the wake of first losses.
There are 2 ways to join the Brick Book Club for 2007:
- Send a cheque for $120 to Brick Books, Box 20081, 431 Boler Road, London, ON N6K 4G6. Please include your name and mailing address. We will take care of the rest…
- If you would like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card, click the button below and I will receive and process your order.
Welcome to the Brick Book Club!!
Brick Book Club 2006 – $120
You can receive all 7 poetry books published in 2006 delivered directly to your home. How convenient!!
And all for the low price of $120 – a savings of just over 25% [taxes and shipping included].
Ink Monkey by Diana Hartog. 4th poetry collection. Whether Diana Hartog is writing about jellyfish, the desert, awkward silences that end a relationship, struggles of creativity, or Japanese prints, her poems are astute and beautiful.
Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee Poems by Jan Conn. 6th poetry book. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon between 1956 and 1988), the poems are infused with wonder at a discovered new world of extraordinary richness.
Ghost Country by Steve Noyes. 3rd book. Set in contemporary China, these poems spring from the intense anguished observations of the lover of a culture who is also, inescapably, the outsider.
Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price – 1st book. A tour de force, a book-length poem, embracing a wide variety of poetic and prose forms, to tell the story of Harry Houdini.
When Earth Leaps Up by Anne Szumigalski. A posthumous collection by “ … one of Canada’s major poets. The audacity – the courage – of her imagination teaches us, gives us our better selves.” — Tim Lilburn
Kingdom, Phylum by Adam Dickinson – 2nd book. Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
I, Nadja, and Other Poems by Susan Elmslie – 1st book. Delving into the life and mental illness of the real person behind André Breton’s surrealist romance, Nadja.
There are 2 ways to join the Brick Book Club for 2006:
- Send a cheque for $120 to Brick Books, Box 20081, 431 Boler Road, London, ON N6K 4G6. Please include your name and mailing address. We will take care of the rest…
- If you would like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card, click the button below and I will receive and process your order.
Welcome to the Brick Book Club!!
Brick Book Club 2005 – $100
You can receive all 8 poetry books published in 2009 delivered directly to your home. How convenient!!
And all for the low price of $100 – a savings of just over 25% [taxes and shipping included].
Habitat by Sue Wheeler. 3rd book. “Who are you?” the author asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names for the human in the lush natural landscape of her West Coast island home.
The Burning Alphabet by Barry Dempster. 9th poetry collection. “In The Burning Alphabet, mood, with all its elaborate subtleties and manifestations, both in sickness and in health, constitutes a metaphysics… I feel as though I’ve lived an entire inner life in these pages, wrenching, dark, and amazingly sweet.” – Roo Borson
Souwesto Home by James Reaney. Fresh, youthful meditations on such diverse subjects as the Little Lakes near Stratford, Ontario, the flora of Elgin County, the Donnelly feud, lichens, a Department Store Jesus, and so on by renowned poet and playwright James Reaney.
The Sutler by Michael Kenyon. 2nd poetry collection. In language at once simple and eloquent, Michael Kenyon’s The Sutler charts a falling and a rising, taking the reader through the grief of a failing relationship to the emergence of new possibility.
An Oak Hunch by Phil Hall. 9th book. Sometimes the poems of An Oak Hunch carry a narrative, sometimes they are leaping and lyrical, but they are all composed of word-music that connects the ear and the heart. Finalist for the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Modern and Normal by Karen Solie. 2nd book. Karen Solie takes her on-the-road fascination with being between places to a new level, exploring conceptual and perceptual states of in-betweenness.
Inter Alia by David Seymour. 1st book. “these bright, confident poems approach the world carefully, but always with an engaging readiness to play.” – The Dominion
Lunar Drift by Marlene Cookshaw. 5th book. Marlene Cookshaw’s study of time is a lyric meditation on order and wilderness, in which the human construction of time becomes something against which our own lives are bent and measured.
There are 2 ways to join the Brick Book Club for 2005:
- Send a cheque for $120 to Brick Books, Box 20081, 431 Boler Road, London, ON N6K 4G6. Please include your name and mailing address. We will take care of the rest…
- If you would like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card, click the button below and I will receive and process your order.
