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Curious about how you can grow your own poetry? Check out our poetry consultation service!
12/08/2025

Curious about how you can grow your own poetry? Check out our poetry consultation service!

Check out the link in the comments below to find out more about the 2026 annual subscription - the books included, our s...
12/05/2025

Check out the link in the comments below to find out more about the 2026 annual subscription - the books included, our special gift to subscribers, and how it works!

We’re getting to know each other here at Brick Books and Assembly Press, and we’ve designed a festive sale to help you g...
12/03/2025

We’re getting to know each other here at Brick Books and Assembly Press, and we’ve designed a festive sale to help you get to know our books and our authors better too!

Here’s the deal: Buy one Brick title from our website and we’ll throw in one free Assembly title; buy one Assembly title from their website and you’ll receive one free Brick title.

The necessary fine print: Free titles are dealer’s choice, it’s a 1:1 sale so the more books you order, the more books you get for free, we reserve the right to dial this back if it gets out of hand.

Sale runs Dec 1 to Dec 19.

Check out our blog for more about our 2025 Gift Guide! A link to our blog can be found in the comments below.

After another brutal wildfire season and a slew of predictions things will only get worse, it’s tempting to say that by ...
11/28/2025

After another brutal wildfire season and a slew of predictions things will only get worse, it’s tempting to say that by now the earth has been relinquished for good.

Read the tenth post in our 50th Anniversary blog series! Written by Mary Germaine. Link to the blog in the comments below.

Barry Dempster—beloved poet, longtime Brick Books acquisitions editor and editorial collective member, and deeply kind h...
11/27/2025

Barry Dempster—beloved poet, longtime Brick Books acquisitions editor and editorial collective member, and deeply kind human—died today (November 27, 2025). An exquisitely generous mentor to so many of us, he was always as eager to learn as he was to teach. We were all so lucky to have him among us. His life was steeped in poetry and friendship, right to the very end.

He also loved the sensual details of life; our vote is to honour him today by cooking a sumptuous meal, or taking a walk in the snow, watching a classic black-and-white film, rubbing a dog’s belly for a while, or reading a poem out loud—anything that makes you feel awake and glad to be alive.

“Little Light” is from Invisible Dogs, published by Brick Books in 2013.

Another author highlight! This month, we would like to draw your attention to Avery Lake and their collection, Horrible ...
11/27/2025

Another author highlight! This month, we would like to draw your attention to Avery Lake and their collection, Horrible Dance, and share an excerpt with you.

Avery Lake is a worker and writer living in occupied Tiohtià:ke. She attended Concordia University and is not in the scene.

We had such a lovely time at the Brick Books 50th Anniversary celebration on October 30! Thank you to everyone who showe...
11/19/2025

We had such a lovely time at the Brick Books 50th Anniversary celebration on October 30! Thank you to everyone who showed up to celebrate with us, and everyone who couldn't make it but sent their love our way 🩷

Did you miss our previous blog installments surrounding publishing ecosystems? We discuss various parts of the publishin...
11/17/2025

Did you miss our previous blog installments surrounding publishing ecosystems? We discuss various parts of the publishing process through each of our fall releases!

In an interview with the author, we cover what the editing process was like for In a Riptide between the author, Ronna Bloom. and the editor, Sue Sinclair. Taking a look at both Infinite Audition and The Garbage Poems, you can get a behind-the-scenes peek at what goes into different elements of a book's design. Read all three blogs to get a glimpse of just a few of the beautiful things that a book of poetry needs to come to fruition as a published piece.

Follow the link in the comments below to the Brick Books blog to read more!

Receive all 7 marvellous poetry collections published by Brick Books in 2025, whether you’re treating yourself or search...
11/14/2025

Receive all 7 marvellous poetry collections published by Brick Books in 2025, whether you’re treating yourself or searching for a thoughtful gift! ❄

Check out the link in the comments below for more details.

Join Vancouver poets Mercedes Eng and Cecily Nicholson in conversation with Toronto poets Jody Chan and Maysam Ghani for...
11/05/2025

Join Vancouver poets Mercedes Eng and Cecily Nicholson in conversation with Toronto poets Jody Chan and Maysam Ghani for an afternoon of community-based poetry and conversation.

Another author highlight! This month, we would like to draw your attention to Jody Chan and their collection, impact sta...
10/29/2025

Another author highlight! This month, we would like to draw your attention to Jody Chan and their collection, impact statement, and share an excerpt with you.

Jody Chan is a writer, drummer, organizer, and therapist based in Toronto/Tkaronto. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press), all our futures (PANK), and sick (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and 2021 Trillium Award for Poetry. They are also a performing member with Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers. They can be found online at https://www.jodychan.com/, and offline at libraries and dog parks.

What struck me the first time I read D.M. Bradford’s work is how powerfully their fragmented line – often refusing, it s...
10/27/2025

What struck me the first time I read D.M. Bradford’s work is how powerfully their fragmented line – often refusing, it seems, to complete a full sentence – achieves an effect of contentious contact with “the big picture.” In Dream Of No One But Myself, terse, painfully observant poems about family dynamics blur into essays which disintegrate into scatterings of language, punctuated by colourful reassemblages of once cut-up photos from the author’s childhood.

Read the ninth post in our 50th Anniversary blog series! Written by Sonnet L’Abbé. Link to our blog in the comments below.

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