Baseline Press

08/15/2025

Baseline rounds out this season with Steve McOrmond's Jacaranda Trees, Mexico City - a 12 poem sequence, purple-tinged and poignant. With cover design by Morgan Clark. Available for pre-order now.

06/23/2025

Baseline's summer titles are now available for pre-order: What if Maybe and other poems by Salma Hussain; Sounds from the season of grass and fire by Jasmine Gui. Thanks to editors Puneet Dutt and Sanna Wani and cover artist Christine Cheung for their creative contributions, and to the London Arts Council and the Community Arts Investment Program for their much appreciated support!

03/11/2025

New spring chapbook titles by Dagne Forrest and Susan Robertson are available for pre-order now! With ongoing thanks to the London Arts Council and the City of London for their support of Baseline through the Community Arts Investment Program https://www.baselinepress.ca/shop

03/04/2025

Thanks to Tom Cull for showcasing Lisa Baird’s Persephone’s Crickets (Baseline, 2024) on The Fiddlehead’s “Stop! Look! Listen!” reading recommendation page!

Posted on March 4, 2025 Myth is on my mind. My partner and I recently tore through the first season of KAOS, a new Netflix series that plays fast and loose with classical Greek Mythology. In this retelling, Gods and humans live in a stylized world that somewhat resembles our own. Zeus, played to a t...

10/29/2024

Baseline author Lauren Peat will be launching her chapbook, Future Tense, on November 21st at Vancouver's China Cloud Studios. Doors at 7:00pm, readings at 7:30pm.
The evening will be hosted by poet and podcast host Andrew French, and will feature readings by local poets Fletcher FitzGibbon, Rob Taylor, and Isabella Wang. There will be a cash bar, and books for sale!
Poster by Andrea Tombleson.

09/21/2024

09/17/2024

Baseline's final fall title is Future Tense, an excellent first collection from Vancouver poet Lauren Peat. Edited by Annick MacAskill. Available for pre-order now

08/23/2024

Guelph poets Lisa Baird and Jeremy Luke Hill will be launching their new Baseline titles at the Fertil3 Festival this Sunday Aug. 25th at The Printed Word Bookshop. This year’s theme: Poetry is the Reason! Join us for a stellar line-up of small press authors. Details here: https://knifeforkbook.com/fertil3/

07/27/2024

Permutations by Paula Turcotte is a NEW poetry chapbook reviewed by TMR contributor and poet Pearl Pirie. Published by Baseline Press.

📚”Permutations by Paula Turcotte is a high energy chapbook of the urban depressed and stressed. It is fresh and punchy as well as comic at times. She doesn’t wade though refrains of constancy. The forms fit as they each vary, in triplets, couplets and blocks.”

Pearl’s review continues ➡️ Don’t miss it!
https://miramichireader.ca/2024/07/permutations-by-paula-turcotte/

07/02/2024

Now available from Baseline Press - a first collection from poet Paula Turcotte! With many thanks to editor Cassidy McFadzean and cover artist Karen Kryzan. https://www.baselinepress.ca/ #/permutations-paula-turcotte-2024