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6 X 8.75 INCHES / 104 PAGESTRADE PAPERBACK / POETRY
FRONTLIST / FALL 2013
From a
master poet,
meditative
lines
running like
veins through
the dark
grace of
being alive.
Don Domanski
Governor General’s Award–winning poet Don Domanski’s new collection, Bite Down Little Whisper, delves into the interconnectedness of all life with spiritual gravitas and powerful mindfulness. These are poems brimming with mythological and scientific energies, with a multi-dimensionality that opens itself to both complexity and clarity. Domanski shows us seams and fastenings that unite our longings with the earth itself, with the nonhuman vitality that surrounds us. The heart’s need for unity and reverence is present in these poems as a whisper we hear in occasional moments of quietude, when it’s possible to perceive the workings of a larger existence.
Quietude is called returning to life Lao Tze says even on a Tuesday afternoon in Nova Scotiaeven with the hood ornaments of chocolate irises gleaming outward from their arterial darknesswith the unborn standing high up in the trees like cemetery angels one finger pointing to heaven the other to earth
(from “Ars Magica”)
PROMOTIONAL PLANS
• launches in Toronto (at Ben McNally's) and Halifax with Barry Dempster
• readings in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg
• national review copy mailing & advertisements in selected literary magazines
DON DOMANSKI was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is the author of eight previous books of poetry. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czech, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish.
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Bite Down Little Whisper
$20
Virtuosic
poems
tracking two
intertwined
themes:
the breakdown
of an obsessive
love affair and
the vicissitudes
of middle age.
Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to the difficult business of staying alive. This is a book for when it hurts so bad you hope you’ll die and are afraid you won’t—not because it offers consolation or the promise of a new dawn, but because it so compellingly documents the plain, hard, ungraceful, stumbling grief of the matter, and meets it with rare self-knowledge, wry humour, and an unornamented determination to go on living.
Dempster has nerves of steel when it comes to self-examination, and it’s this relentless honesty and the emotional torque it induces that keep the voice on the road.
…He scrutinizes the rearview mirror as if it were a bush about to spring into flames, the past appearing closer than it really is. Miles of missing her, those erratic white lines. He keeps forgetting where he’s going – city, corner store, centre of the universe. No wonder arrival feels so temporary, like a borrowed bathroom key.
(from “He Said/She Said”)
• launches in Toronto (at Ben McNally's) and Halifax with Don Domanski
• readings in Ottawa, Victoria, Vancouver, Gibson• national review copy mailing & advertisements in selected
literary magazines
BARRY DEMPSTER, twice nominated for the Governor General’s Award, is the author of fourteen poetry collections, a novel, The Ascension of Jesse Rapture, two volumes of short stories and a children’s book. His collection The Burning Alphabet won the Canadian Authors’ Association Chalmers Award for Poetry in 2005. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He is also Acquisitions Editor for Brick Books and teaches writing workshops from Banff, Alberta to Santiago, Chile. A new novel will be published by Pedlar Press in November of 2013.
6 X 8.75 INCHES / 96 PAGESTRADE PAPERBACK / POETRY
FRONTLIST / FALL 2013
Barry Dempster
PROMOTIONAL PLANS
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Invisible Dogs
$20
Don McKay’s description of The Pearl King and Other Poems, Catherine Greenwood’s wonderful first book, also applies to The Lost Letters: “With discerning wit and a large range of styles and voices, she holds up each subject for contemplation as though it were a pearl. . . .”
At the centre of The Lost Letters is a sequence of radically diverse poems based on the story of Heloise and Abelard, truly lovers in a dangerous time, the twelfth century. The raw material is heavy, tension between flesh and spirit being the serious issue carried forward from the twelfth century into the twenty-first. But Greenwood’s deft and delicate handling of scenarios of love requited but balked becomes a perceptive reading – extraordinarily inventive and constantly surprising – of contemporary secular society.
The Lost Letters creates a world of wonder tinged with sadness on behalf of so much that goes unnoticed, whether it’s a bin of severed sows’ ears, a lizard tethered by its tail who severs it by self-amputation, or a down-and-out old schoolmate.
• launch in Victoria• readings in Quesnel, Nanaimo, Gabriola Island, Vancouver,
White Rock, Edmonton, Red Deer, Saskatoon, Toronto, Fredericton, Ottawa
• national review copy mailing & advertisements in selected literary magazines
CATHERINE GREENWOOD'S poetry has been widely published in journals and anthol-ogies; her first book, The Pearl King and Others (Brick Books, 2004), was a Kiriyama Prize notable book. She works for British Columbia’s Ministry of Justice in Victoria, where she lives with her husband, the writer Steve Noyes.
“…at her best like Elizabeth Bishop on caffeine.” –Marilyn Bowering
6 X 8.75 INCHES / 88 PAGESTRADE PAPERBACK / POETRY
FRONTLIST / FALL 2013
Catherine Greenwood
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The Lost Letters
PROMOTIONAL PLANS
Atmospherically
light and
stylistically
expansive –
poems that
regard our
givens as
a gift.
$20
What if Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson met in the afterlife? What if a respected physician suddenly shrank to the size of a pea? With exquisite pacing and striking imagery Kate Cayley draws us into the gaps in history, invites us to survey its wonders, both real and imaginary.
“The poetry in Placeholder is intriguing in the materiality and intensity of its language. But one wants a slow read to relish the lush assemblage and careful juxtapositions... These poems/placeholders invite us to dawdle the ‘whole while’ and ponder the ordered melange of this poetic curiosity shop.” —Fred Wah, Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate
In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments, The Family China
examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse
to build anew.
“This short, dazzling collection of poems contains a universe—nothing short of North American life in the late twentieth and early
“Afloat takes the reader into the world of water, how it reaches into everything
and connects everything, until the poems make you thirsty. Moving like flotsam in
their beautiful sinuous lines and rhythms, you realize that you too are water, nature,
world. No longer exile but celebrant. A wonderful poet, a wondrous book.”
—Rosemary Sullivan
John Reibetanz
ISBN-13 • 978-1-926829-82-1 • $ 20
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BACKLIST /
by Julie Bruck
by Sue Goyette
MONKEY RANCH
I SEE MY LOVE MORE CLEARLY FROM A DISTANCE
OUTSKIRTS
ISBN-13 • 978-1-926829-74-6 • $19
ISBN-13 • 978-1-926829-71-5 • $19
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Érecent award
winnersby Nora Gould
ISBN-13 • 978-1-926829-75-3 • $19
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BACKLIST /
* Winner of the 2012 Governor General's Award *
* 2012 Globe 100 book *
* Shortlisted for the 2013 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award *
* Shortlisted for the 2013 Pat Lowther Memorial Award *
* Winner of the 2012 Atlantic Poetry Prize *
ATLANTIC POETRY PRIZE
PAT LOWTHER AWARD
* Winner of the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award *
* Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetch City of Edmonton Book Prize *
* Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry 2013 *
WINNERWINNER
WINNERWINNER
WINNERWINNER
WINNERWINNER
STEPHAN G. STEPHANSSON
AWARD
CITY OF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZE
GLOBE AND MAIL 100 BOOK
“...Susan Gillis's ravishing new collection, gives us the strange loops of ordinary moments: a farewell at a train station, an empty room, the first bloodroot in spring. Her poems—airy, shimmering—reveal a slippage in time and space. We are not where we thought
we were—not at all.” —Anne Simpson
“Everything, now – part lyric, part memoir – confronts the brutality of loss and resurrects a life … a moving testament to a much-loved partner and, by extension, to all those who have died far too soon.”
—Jane Urquhart
Steven Price’s highly anticipated second collection addresses the mysteries that both surround and inhabit us, the moral lack in the
human heart, and the labour of living with such a heart.
Reading Conn’s masterful eighth collection is a little like looking at Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both vi-sions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even activism.
Jan Conn
THE RAPIDS
EVERYTHING, NOW
OMENS IN THE YEAR OF THE OX
EDGE EFFECTS
Jessica Moore
Steven Price
Susan Gillis
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-77-7 / 2012 / $ 19.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-79-1 / 2012 / $ 19.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-76-0 / 2012 / $ 19.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-78-4 / 2012 / $ 19.00
“… Monkey Ranch is like the best sort of letter from a friend—full of gossip, lively observation, and serious wit.” —Sharon Thesen
Julie BruckMONKEY RANCH
OUTSKIRTSSue Goyette
Sue Goyette’s outskirts is a tour de force. This book will name you, and frighten you; make you laugh, and arm you for what is to come.
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-74-6 / 2012 / $ 19.00
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-71-5 / 2011 / $ 19.00
Nora Gould’s one-of-a-kind debut examines life on a ranch on the central plains. A book with the sweep of Dr. Zhivago: passion, tragedy, failure, marriage, family, a generational connection to the land.
I SEE MY LOVE MORE CLEARLY FROM A DISTANCENora Gould
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-75-3 / 2012 / $ 19.00
Emily McGiffinBETWEEN DUSK AND NIGHT
“McGiffin… create[s] an immaculate architecture for the heart. Sometimes I think I’ll never read a good poem again and then she
comes along with a book full of them.” —Patrick Lane
ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-73-9 / 2012 / $ 19.00
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FEATURED BACKLIST /
* Winner of the 2012 Atlantic Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award *
* Winner of the Governor General's Award and a 2012 Globe 100 book *
Avison, Margaret Avison, Margaret Avison, MargaretBarton, JohnBolster, StephanieBruck, JulieBruck, JulieBruck, JulieCadeau, CharmaineCadsby, HeatherCarson, AnneCayley, KateConn, JanConn, JanConn, JanCook, MéiraCook, MéiraCrate, JoanCrate, Joan
Crummey, MichaelCurnoe, GregDempster, BarryDempster, BarryDempster, Barry
Concrete and Wild Carrot / $15.00 No Time / $9.95 Not Yet but Still / $12.95Hymn / $19.00A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth The End of Travel / $14.00Monkey Ranch / $19.00The Woman Downstairs/ $11.95Placeholder / $20.00Could be / $19.00Short Talks / $14.00When This World Comes to an End / $20.00Botero’s Beautiful Horses / $19.00Edge Effects / $19.00Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee Poems / $18.00A Walker in the City / $19.00Slovenly Love / $15.00Foreign Homes / $15.00Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson / $14.00Hard Light / $14.00Deeds/Abstracts / $16.95The Burning Alphabet / $17.00Invisible Dogs / $20.00Letters from a Long Illness with the World: the D.H. Lawrence Poems / $14.00Love Outlandish / $ 19.00Alien, Correspondent / $19.00All Our Wonder Unavenged / $18.00Bite Down Little Whisper / $20.00Domestic Economy / $9.95Spirit Engine / $18.00New Life in Dark Seas / $16.00A Really Good Brown Girl / $14.00That Other Beauty / $19.00The Rapids / $19.00I see my love more clearly from a distance outskirts / $19.00The True Names of Birds / $14.00Undone / $16.00The Lost Letters / $20.00The Pearl King and Other Poems / $16.00Amanuensis / $9.95An Oak Hutch / $17.00Trouble Sleeping / $14.00Sharawadji / $19.00Anthem / $14.00
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios / $14.00The Ledger / $10.00Riffs / $11.95Riffs (large print edition) / $14.00Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems / $20.00Return From Erebus / $19.00Between Dusk and Night / $19.00Two Hemispheres / $18.00The Good News About Armageddon / $19.00Everything, now / $19.00Combustion / $18.00Lost Gospels / $19.00Noble Gas, Penny Black / $18.00Elimination Dance / $10.00Hologram: A Book of Glosas / $14.00Vox Humana / $19.00Anatomy of Keys / $18.00Omens in the Year of the Ox / $19.00Souwesto Home / $17.00Afloat/ $20.00Mining For Sun/ $14.00The Fetch / $19.00The Truth of Houses / $19.00Inter Alia / $17.00The Family China / $20.00Breaker / $18.00Mortal Arguments / $15.00Secrets of Weather & Hope / $14.00Hooked: seven poems / $19.00The Way to Come Home / $15.00Modern and Normal / $17.00Short Haul Engine / $14.00The Grey Islands / $14.00Girlwood / $19.00When Earth Leaps Up / $18.00Woodshedding / $18.00Going Around with Bachelors / $21.00Robinson’s Crossing / $16.00Songs for Relinquishing the Earth / $15.00
Brick Books acknowledges the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit for their support of our publishing program.
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