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And so, here is January — with its lists and improvements and raised hopes all bundled up in hard-cover book jackets, scarved in podcast tours. Oh, January, can we give you a holiday instead? One that includes a wood-burning stove, a mug of tea, quiet, and reading that asks only for you to be open and to be?

For the past 50 years, Brick Books has been publishing poetry that offers this kind of inner solace, quiet, and internal shifting; this year’s books continue that tradition. Here are just a few: Ronna Bloom’s In a Riptide looks at ego and being somebody in the context of ageing, illness, and dying while Anna Swanson’s Garbage Poems revisions garbage and joy. Hari Alluri’s Tabako on the Windowsill takes us through thresholds and portals, Estlin McPhee’s In Your Nature into the continuity that comes through rupture.

Speaking of thresholds, portals, and shifting contexts, this year marks our 50th year as an independent poetry press. This is a gigantic feat given the publishing landscape has certainly changed over the years, and the demands of capitalism and waning enthusiasm of institutional support make it that much harder to navigate. Yet, we endeavour daily to stay rooted in the ethos of care of lavishing attention upon the unquantifiable things that make up the stuff of poetry.

To marry the ethereal to the mundane and to enter uncomfortable marketing speak, by supporting Brick Books by purchasing our Annual Subscription plan, which includes all the books above, 3 more books, and a special subscriber thank you, you will cultivate your inner, poetic life and support Brick Books in the material ways necessary to bring moving and relevant books into the world. A subscription plan is one of the very best ways you can support us in these efforts.

To learn more about the Subscription, the other 2025 titles, and to sign up, visit our Annual Subscription forthwith.