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 Christine Wu

Poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food. Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Ginger scallion fish, Sichuan peppercorns, ginseng tea, Chinese school and white chefs – the reader’s appetite is satiated with these poems’ complex palate. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow.

In Your Nature
by Estlin McPhee

Poems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.

And do you know what the best part is? The fun doesn’t end when summer does. As an annual subscriber, you will also be sent our Fall 2025 releases: The Garbage Poems by Anna Swanson, Infinite Audition by Charlie Petch, and In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom.

This year marks our 50th year as an independent poetry press. We are grateful, and understandably lucky, to experience so many summers of poetry. This is a gigantic feat given the publishing landscape is ever-changing, and the demands of capitalism and waning enthusiasm of institutional support make it that much harder to navigate. Yet, we endeavour daily to stay rooted in the ethos of care of lavishing attention upon the unquantifiable things that make up the stuff of poetry.

To marry the ethereal to the mundane and to enter uncomfortable marketing speak, by supporting Brick Books through purchasing our Annual Subscription plan, which includes all of our 2025 releases and a special subscriber thank you, you will find your poetic life refreshed and support Brick Books in the material ways necessary to bring these vital and thought-provoking books into the world. A subscription plan is one of the very best ways you can support us in these efforts.

To learn more about the Subscription, the other 2025 titles, and to sign up, visit our Annual Subscription forthwith.