Brick Books
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Autowar |
A visceral, vital, unblinking debut collection of poems exploring kinesthetic memory and longing, inherited violence, and the body as a geographical site. We’re often told that we are given … | Assiyah Jamilla Touré | 62 | 2021 | View |
NEW! awâsis – kinky and dishevelled |
There are no pronouns in Cree for gender; awâsis (which means illuminated child) reveals herself through shapeshifting, adopting different genders, exploring the English language with … | Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer | 88 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Bear Bones & Feathers |
In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing … | Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer | 144 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Blood |
Conceived in the same world as their acclaimed debut, Bones, Tyler Pennock’s Blood centres around a protagonist who at first has difficulty knowing the difference between connection and … | Tyler Pennock | 128 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Burning in This Midnight Dream |
Many of the poems in Louise Halfe’s Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and … | Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer | 104 | 2021 | View |
Devil in the Woods |
A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart’s stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, … | D. A. Lockhart | 80 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Fetishes of the Floating World |
Governor General’s Award–winning poet Don Domanski’s posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, … | Don Domanski | 87 | 2021 | View |
NEW! First |
The poems in First, Arleen Paré’s seventh collection, search for a long-lost first friend. They conjure the subtle layers of meaning in that early friendship to riff on to a search for … | Arleen Paré | 144 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Grey All Over |
Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So began her passage through grief, self-reckoning, and graduate … | Andrea Actis | 176 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Horrible Dance |
A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and … | Avery Lake | 72 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Hsin |
22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Nanci Lee’s debut explores 4th Century Su Hui’s palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, … | Nanci Lee | 88 | 2022 | View |
NEW! I am the Big Heart |
What does it mean to be the big heart? Or to hope to be the big heart? Or to fail to be that big heart? How far can a heart stretch? How does being a parent stretch it further? How does a heart … | Sarah Venart | 112 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Moldovan Hotel |
In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism … | Leah Horlick | 72 | 2021 | View |
NEW! MONUMENT |
MONUMENT is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj Mahal. MONUMENT upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire by exploring buried … | Manahil Bandukwala | 104 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Orion Sweeping |
22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Anne Marie Todkill’s debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and … | Anne Marie Todkill | 88 | 2022 | View |
Sotto Voce |
Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city’s afflicted … | Maureen Hynes | 120 | 2019 | View |