Brick Books Annual Subscription
$145.00 / year
With your Brick Books annual subscription, you’re becoming part of a cherished Canadian literary legacy focused on bringing moving and relevant books into the world. Your subscription not only nourishes your poetic spirit but plays an important role in helping to maintain a space for poetry in the world.
Your annual subscription includes:
1. A Curated Collection of Poetry Excellence:
Receive every title we publish throughout the year, averaging 7-9 masterpieces before they are available for sale anywhere else. Dive into this year’s captivating titles (list below).
2. Exclusive Just For You:
Embrace perks that aren’t available to anyone else. Each year, we curate something special only for our valued annual subscribers. This year, to mark our 50th Anniversary, we are featuring an anniversary sticker featuring a poem by Jody Chan to grace your laptop, water bottle, or any place you need to see a poem more frequently.
How it Works:
Subscriptions are charged immediately for the current year and renew automatically (and are automatically charged) each subsequent year on January 1st. Books are published and ship twice a year (May and October). If you become a subscriber after October 1st you will receive all of the current year’s books in one shipment.
Renewal notices are sent by email 14 days prior to renewal and you can cancel anytime.
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Details of the Current Subscription (2025):
Please note: all Subscriptions for 2025 will be charged GST because they will not be fully delivered before the logistically vexing “GST Holiday” ends as per CRA rules.
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.
Tabako on the Windowsill
by Hari Alluri
To build an entire book around portals and thresholds is to try to create living myth. Tabako on the Windowsill builds from comic books, television, paintings, folklore, music, and a unique imagination. These poems follow an immigrant point of view while maintaining home in a language that engages with blood and chosen family, with multiple lived and ancestral spaces in India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Canada, and the U.S.
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.
Ring of Dust
by Louise Marois, translated by D.M. Bradford
A poem sequence that embraces the ruptures a lyrical turn makes possible. In Ring of Dust, veteran Quebec poet Louise Marois delights in poetic feints, temporal leaps, asides, tangents, sleights of hand, call-backs and echoes. This ambitious collection of sequences populates plural dialogues between then and now, family and entourage, lover and nature, mother and death, work-person and artist, fables and confidences, limits and new reaches, home and escape, city and field, queer life and a blood red world.
The Garbage Poems
by Anna Swanson
Poems that repurpose the language of beer cans and fast-food wrappers to explore the complex relationships between chronic illness, queerness, climate grief, embodiment, and joy as a means of survival. Paired with tender watercolour illustrations of the source garbage by award-winning artist April White.
Infinite Audition
by Charlie Petch
Part poetry book, part theatre audition resource, Infinite Audition reflects a transmasculine and disabled experience of the world in a voice is funny, humane and rooted in authenticity.
In a Riptide
by Ronna Bloom
The poems in Ronna Bloom’s In a Riptide look directly at illness, aging, death and happiness. The collection asks: how do we/I respond to the sick, the aging, the dying, personally and collectively? Why is ego and being somebody endlessly important to us? What happens when animals and people meet in aggression, in astonishment, in care? Can I be here to witness the world even after the movie of my own life is over? Is this what awareness is? As a single childless woman in her 60’s, not needed, somewhere between vigour and diminishment, Ronna writes what she sees and offers it, precarious as it is.
Special Subscriber Perk
A Brick Books 50th Anniversary Sticker for your laptop, water bottle, or any other place you’d like to see an encouraging and moving poem every day.
