I have a little wall of framed broadsides between my kitchen and bathroom—letterpress gems I’ve bought at bookfairs and readings across the country—and I love how, occasionally, when the light […]
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In the now-ramping-up lead in to the Holiday Season, I recently read a social post about getting your loved ones things they really need. Suggestions included a mortgage payment (which, […]
No doubt about it, it’s hard to find respite from the onslaught that is today’s world. And yet poetry has always been a balm of sorts, the art form to […]
What Makes Poetry an Essential Library Acquisition? Poetry has always been the art form to which people turn in times of crisis—in the face of illness, death, or heartbreak, in […]
Alayna’s Reads: Isn’t reading outside in summer a special kind of bliss? Especially under a tree, in a hammock, by a river or lake (or, if you’re really lucky, all […]
In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous poets Justene Dion-Glowa, Tyler Pennock, and Daniel Lockhart recommend books they treasure by other Indigenous poets: * Justene Dion-Glowa (author of Trailer […]
Wonderfully, colourfully, it’s been a busy Pride month across Canada. To celebrate, we put together the new Queer at Heart book bundle (3 books for $40). These are three of […]
Committing to publish a translation requires a leap of faith—at least it required one of us when we decided to publish an English translation of Désormais, ma demeure, by Québécois-Chilean […]
There may be nothing sentimental about a machine, but I have to say that whenever I stop by Coach House Printing, where our books are lovingly printed in Toronto, my […]
Thinking of submitting your poetry manuscript to Brick Books? Our acquisitions editors reveal what they look for in a book while reading through the submissions pile. Nick Thran I’d be […]
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