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07/30/2025

07/25/2025

"Karen Solie’s debut poetry collection, Short Haul Engine, is a paeon to isolation and its rugged symbol of resilience, the truck. Solie’s work would become broader in scope, but in Short Haul Engine the template of her voice starts here: hard-nosed self-examination grounded in experience, playfully riffing off touchstones of philosophy, music, history, and science."

Read the sixth post in our 50th Anniversary blog series! Find the link to our blog in the comments.

07/21/2025

This month's highlighted author is Erin Robinsong! Here is an excerpt from her book, Wet Dream.

Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut collection of poetry, Rag Cosmology, won the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and her chapbooks include Liquidity (House House Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in Lemon Hound, Vallum, The Capilano Review, Effects, Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry, and many others. Collaborative performance works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller include This ritual is not an accident; Facing away from that which is coming; and Polymorphic Microbe Bodies. Originally from Cortes Island, Erin lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.

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07/18/2025

This year is our big 50th Anniversary, and to test the depths of your knowledge on our history, we've created this Brick Books Trivia Quiz. Have fun, and let us know how you did!

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07/11/2025

For anyone fighting the good fight, a bundle of books to provide clear-eyed, contemplative company in the struggle.

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07/03/2025

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06/30/2025

"Being free is having good relations and speaking truth to power and to the darkness one experiences in the ongoing colonial project. This book perfectly encapsulates nêhiyaw humour, raunchy and full of teachings, s*x, and heroism."

Read the fifth post in our 50th Anniversary blog series! Link in bio.

06/27/2025

With the heaviness of the world upon our shoulders... What is your poetry balm for today's overwhelming world? Let us know in the comments!

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06/25/2025

Jumping off our last post about D.M. Bradford, we'd also like to share an excerpt of their poetry collection, Bottom Rail on Top!

Darby Minott Bradford is a poet and translator. They are the author of the hybrid poetry collection Dream of No One but Myself, which won the A.M. Klein QWF Prize for Poetry. Bradford’s first translation, House Within a House by Nicholas Dawson, received the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award and John Glassco Translation Prize. Their most recent book of poetry, Bottom Rail on Top, was a Raymond Souster Award finalist. Bradford lives and works in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal) on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá꞉ka Nation.

If you'd like to read more of Bottom Rail on Top, check out the tagged product in the photo or head to our comments for a link to it in our shop. You don't want to miss out on Bradford's work!