Author Archives: Brick Books

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.

“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.

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.

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.