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 […]
Author Archives: Brenda Leifso
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
Each year, Brick Books strives to bring moving and relevant books into the world by publishing poetry with deep craft and something at stakeātitles that broaden the definitions of what […]
āIt 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 […]