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Check out our blog to learn more about the editing process for Ronna Bloom's In a Riptide! Find the blog linked in the c...
10/03/2025

Check out our blog to learn more about the editing process for Ronna Bloom's In a Riptide! Find the blog linked in the comments.

Happiest of book birthdays to The Garbage Poems! Get yourself a copy by following the link in the comments below.
09/30/2025

Happiest of book birthdays to The Garbage Poems! Get yourself a copy by following the link in the comments below.

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by the Brick Books table for on Saturday. Two of our fall 2025 authors are around at...
09/27/2025

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by the Brick Books table for on Saturday. Two of our fall 2025 authors are around at the festival, and if you Come by the table between noon and 1:30 tomorrow, you can get a poetry prescription from !

“'when I lie down my head/ what will hold me in my rabbit-sleep'This is the last line gifted us in Dom Domanski’s Fetish...
09/26/2025

“'when I lie down my head/ what will hold me in my rabbit-sleep'

This is the last line gifted us in Dom Domanski’s Fetishes of the Floating World. These beautiful poems—like the hares populating them—lie down ever only in a sleep vigilantly unhemispheric: edgeless, straddling wake and dream, but fully blooded and fully visioned."

Read the eighth post in our 50th Anniversary blog series! Written by Colleen Coco Collins. Link to blog in the comments below.

Save the date! More details to come.
09/26/2025

Save the date! More details to come.

Come visit us at Word on the Street! Every purchase enters you in a raffle for our Classics Bundle. Ronna Bloom (In a Ri...
09/25/2025

Come visit us at Word on the Street! Every purchase enters you in a raffle for our Classics Bundle. Ronna Bloom (In a Riptide, 2025) will be on site, handing out poetry prescriptions on both Saturday (1:00 - 3:00 PM) and Sunday (12:00 - 1:30 PM).

Another author highlight! This month, we would like to draw your attention to Assiyah Jamilla Touré and their collection...
09/24/2025

Another author highlight! This month, we would like to draw your attention to Assiyah Jamilla Touré and their collection, Autowar, and share an excerpt with you.

Assiyah Jamilla Touré is a multidisciplinary artist of West African descent. They were born and raised on Skwxwú7mesh land and lived for many years in Kanien’kehà:ka territory (Montreal) and are now based on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Wendat (Toronto). In 2018 their chapbook feral was published by House House Press. Autowar is their first full-length collection.

Check out our blog to learn more about the design of Charlie Petch's Infinite Audition! Link in the comments below.
09/22/2025

Check out our blog to learn more about the design of Charlie Petch's Infinite Audition! Link in the comments below.

Join us in congratulating Manahil for being selected as an Ottawa Book Award finalist!
09/17/2025

Join us in congratulating Manahil for being selected as an Ottawa Book Award finalist!

Happiest of book birthdays to In a Riptide! Get yourself a copy by following the link in the comments below.
09/15/2025

Happiest of book birthdays to In a Riptide! Get yourself a copy by following the link in the comments below.

Try our new quiz today for 10% off your cozy fall companion! Link in the comments.
09/12/2025

Try our new quiz today for 10% off your cozy fall companion! Link in the comments.

Don't miss the Guelph Backyard Book Launch for Anna Swanson's The Garbage Poems. Find the Eventbrite link in the comment...
09/11/2025

Don't miss the Guelph Backyard Book Launch for Anna Swanson's The Garbage Poems. Find the Eventbrite link in the comments below for more information and to register!

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