If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you are likely no stranger to current prolonged darkness (both literally and metaphorically). It’s the time our bodies are telling us to slow […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 stake—titles that broaden the definitions of what […]