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FALL 2012Publishing new and established voices in canadian Poetry since 1975

August

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frontlist / fall 2012

Poems about

being stranded

in a truth

that shows no

mercy,

speaking

from the last

place you’d ever

choose to go.

Jessica Moore

Part lyric, part memoir, Everything, now, Jessica Moore’s heart-rend-ing debut, describes an untimely death and the journey of going on alone. The book stares down loss and struggles to transform that loss into language that can pass through boundaries of intricate sorrow; the act of translation here is not about two different languages—although Moore uses her own translation of Jean-François Beauchemin’s Turkana Boy as a template for translating death into life, past into present—but about the necessity to put the inexplicable into words that might hint at its intensity. The fact at the core of Everything, now is the death of Moore’s lover in a sudden, tragic bicycle accident. But rather than simply detail such a catastrophe, Moore strives to bring memory back to full colour. How do we hold on to what totally escapes us? Where does love end and grief begin? Are they one and the same thing in a circumstance such as this?

Promotional Plans• launch in Toronto with the author’s band• readings in Gabriola Island, Vancouver, Nelson, Guelph,

Hamilton, Montreal, and Halifax• national review copy mailing & advertisements in selected

literary magazines

Jessica Moore is a writer and translator. Her poems and translations have appeared in Arc, CV2, The Antigonish Review, Cenizo and The Literary Review. She also writes songs and plays the banjo in her band, Charms, whose self-titled album was released in 2010 in Toronto.

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“Everything, now – part lyric, part memoir – confronts the brutality of loss and resurrects a life by means of deeply felt narrative and vividly rendered images. Jessica Moore has constructed a moving testament to a much-loved partner and, by extension, to all those who have died far too soon.” —Jane Urquhart

Everything, now

$19.00

Poems that

navigate the

turbulent passages

of our lives,

returning to

them transient

joys, persistent

sorrows, openings

to tenderness.

Urgent and precarious, the poems in The Rapids, Susan Gillis’ third collection, take us to places lost and reclaimed: a balcony high over the St. Lawrence River in downtown Montreal, upstream to the Lachine Rapids, and beyond, to landscapes as far apart as Greece and the B.C. coast. In the same way that Hokusai depicted the sacred Mount Fuji from different vantages at different times of year and day, Gillis depicts the St. Lawrence and the Lachine Canal in spring, summer, winter, and fall, from dawn to dusk, as a background to ordinary and sometimes extraordinary experi-ences. The presiding spirit of the book is force: wind, water, and time at work on the body and on the body of the world. Like the river that is its measure, The Rapids is full of sudden shifts—a polyphony of surges and eddies and remarkable leaps.

• launch in Montreal• readings in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Fredericton,

Charlottetown, Halifax, and Wolfville• national review copy mailing & advertisements in selected

literary magazines

Susan Gillis has lived on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada, and now lives most of the year in Montreal, where she teaches English.

"At the heart of The rapids is a lucidly articulate intelligence continuously on the move, taking unexpected turns, opening up multiple new perspectives on every phenomenon—architecture, romance, the Russian novel, St. Jerome, the rapids themselves—ultimately overturning all assumptions and conclusions. Yet what remains after riding these rapids into the clear is a bell-like, haunting calm." – Roo Borson

September

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frontlist / fall 2012

Susan Gillis

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The Rapids

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Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/reader for completion. “Edge effect” is an ecological term that has to do with the effect on an ecosystem of the juxtaposition of contrasting environments. The poems of Edge Effects have their connection to ecological matters, but they also ride other sorts of edge throughout, entering an un-stable reality in which both time and space are given to uncanny shifting, so it’s “easy to believe visible reality is merely one isolated phenomenon / among many.” Many of the poems in the book are inspired by paintings and drawings, but none of them is the standard ekphrastic exercise: Jan Conn’s poems go deep. They are reinventions of often hyper-real environments—astonishingly rich and mobile, nightmarish, splintered, fragmentary and afflicted by flux. Readers of Edge Effects will be stirred by an involving, non-coercive, witnessing art of great power.

• launch in Amherst, MA• readings in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa,

Montreal, Corner Brook, St. John’s, Fredericton, and New York• national review copy mailing & advertisements in selected

literary magazines

Jan Conn was brought up in Asbestos, Quebec. She now lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and works as a professor of Biomedical Sciences whose research is focused on mosquitoes, their evolution and ecol-ogy. She has published seven previous books of poetry.

“These poems crackle with the concentrated energy that comes from examining something rather than merely naming it.” – Linda Besner, Books in canada (on Jaguar rain)

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frontlist / fall 2012

Jan Conn

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Edge Effects

Promotional Plans

Mature

poems

with their

finger

on the

pulse of

the dark

side of the

present.

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“You makers of the new: move over and make room for Steven Price, for he has written a book which plumbs the well-springs of Western poetic tradition to create something utterly, dazzlingly original. Richly varied in form, exuberantly sensuous in its language (yet haunted by the philosophical doubts of our time), Omens in the Year of the Ox is at once a wild musical ride and an engaging metaphysical quest.” – Mary Dalton

In this one-of-a-kind debut the Prairie itself is a central character: muse, mythic persona, the place of deepest solace and of deepest question-ing. The relation between the book's exactness of observation and the grief, horror, and beauty that it documents achieves a kind of transcend-ence: not with the purpose of avoiding pain, but in order to make all of it seeable and feelable by a human being.

“I am undone by Emily McGiffin. Her images and insights both ‘measured and wary’ cre-ate 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. Astonishing.” – Patrick Lane

Steven Price Nora Gould

Emily McGiffin

omens in the year of the ox

monkey ranch between dusk and night

i see my love more clearly from a distance

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What is sufficient, what will suffice? … a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswer-able conundrum—sometimes with rage, or plain persistence, sometimes with furious joy. Monkey Ranch is a brilliant and unusual blend of pathos and play, of deep seriousness and

wildly veering humour.

Julie Bruck

ISBN-13 • 978-1-926829-74-6 • $ 19.00

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Acutely angled, filled with intertextual resonance and wit, Governor General’s Award-winning poet Stephanie Bolster’s fourth collection is an ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed me-

ander through a landscape of made and contained things.

Always witty and often hilarious, feather-light in touch, A Walker in the City is an entertaining exploration of serious issues: youth and age; life, death, and rebirth; the (dis)connection of language and reality; tradition and the now.

In Girlwood, Jennifer Still’s poems come of age. Songs of liberation and confinement arise from the tangled pathways between mother

and daughter: both cries of devotion and congested laments.

Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. This debut collection is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theatre of the moment.

E. Alex Pierce

a Page from the wonders of life on earth

a walker in the city

girlwood

vox humana

Mèira Cook

Jennifer Still

Śtephanie Bolster

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-71-5 / 2010 / $ 19.00

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-70-8 / 2010 / $ 19.00

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-66-1 / 2011 / $ 19.00

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At once wise and achingly at a loss, these poems speak of a familiar inner struggle—for insight, for equanimity, for words with which

we may re-enter life anew.

Ann Scowcroftthe truth of houses

hooked: seven PoemsCarolyn Smart

Seven poems about famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles, and Elizabeth Smart. An elegant and sinister collection of dramatic monologues.

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-67-8 / 2011 / $ 19.00

ISBN-13: 978-1-894078-69-6 / 2010 / $ 19.00

Sue Goyette’s outskirts is a tour de force. Its originality lies in Goyette’s refusal of despair, her conviction that the connections among people, their conversation, curiosity, empathy, and awe, can help us see a way forward. This book will name you, and frighten you; make you laugh, and arm you for what is to come.

outskirtsSue Goyette

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-68-5 / 2011 / $ 19.00

Brian Hendersonsharawadji

Sharawadji brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instru-ment of discovery. Each of the secret languages of the mind’s

worlds is unearthed and translated with a conjurer’s intensity.

ISBN-13: 978-1-926829-69-2 / 2011 / $ 19.00

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Brick Books has set out to create the largest publisher-focused poetry performance archive in Canada and abroad. Begun in June 2010, the Brick Books podcast channel currently boasts over 700 poems read by their authors, with many more to come.

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to date, ParticiPants in the brick books archive include:

36 titles available now, 113 more by fall 2012, including:

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Don McKay, Sue Sinclair, Stan Dragland, Agnes Walsh, Margaret Avison, A. F. Moritz, Jennifer Still, Randall Maggs, Pain Not Bread, Kim Maltman, Patrick Friesen, Brian Henderson, Maureen Hynes, Nico Rogers, Barry Dempster, John Reibetanz, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Karen Enns, Antony Di Nardo, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Maureen Harris, Heather Cadsby, John Barton, Steve McOrmond, Chris Hutchinson, Jan Conn, Méira Cook, Jessica Moore, Karen Connelly, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, and Dennis Lee (reading all of Riffs), Karen Solie, David Seymour, and Helen Humphreys, to name just a few!

A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont, Hard Light by Michael Crummey, The Grey Islands by John Steffler, Pale as Real Ladies by Joan Crate, Hooked by Carolyn Smart, The Burning Alphabet by Barry Dempster, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs, Noble Gas, Penny Black by David O'Meara, Short Haul Engine and Modern and Normal by Karen Solie, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Jan Zwicky, and many more!

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Dempster, BarryDi Nardo, AntonyDomanski, DonDonlan, JohnDonlan, JohnDragland, Stan, ed.Dumont, MarilynEnns, KarenGillis, SusanGould, NoraGoyette, SueGoyette, SueGoyette, SueHall, PhilHall, Phil Hall, PhilHenderson, BrianHumphreys, HelenHumphreys, Helen

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Concrete and Wild Carrot / $15.00No Time / $9.95Not Yet but Still / $12.95Hymn / $19.00A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth The Memory Orchard / $16.00Monkey Ranch / $19.00Could be / $19.00Short Talks / $14.00Botero’s Beautiful Horses / $19.00Edge Effects / $19.00Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee Poems / $18.00A Walker in the City / $19.00Slovenly Love / $15.00Toward a Catalogue of Falling / $12.95Foreign Homes / $15.00Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson / $14.00Hard Light / $14.00Deeds/Abstracts / $16.95The Burning Alphabet / $17.00Letters from a Long Illness with the World: the D.H. Lawrence Poems / $14.00Love Outlandish / $ 19.00Alien, Correspondent / $19.00All Our Wonder Unavenged / $18.00Domestic 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 / $16.00Amanuensis / $9.95An Oak Hutch / $17.00Trouble Sleeping / $14.00Sharawadji / $19.00Anthem / $14.00Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios / $14.00The Perils of Geography / $14.00Other People’s Lives / $19.00The Secret Signature of Things / $19.00The Last House / $19.00

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Klar, BarbaraKroetsch, RobertLee, DennisLee, DennisMaggs, Randall McCarthy, JuliaMcGiffin, EmilyMcInnis, NadineMcOrmond, SteveMoore, JessicaNeilsen Glenn, LorriNeilsen Glenn, LorriO’Meara, DavidO’Meara, DavidOndaatje, MichaelPage, P.K. Pierce, E. AlexPrice, StevenPrice, StevenReaney, JamesRogers, NicoScowcroft, AnnSeymour, DavidSimić, Goran

Sinclair, SueSinclair, SueSinclair, SueSmart, CarolynSmart, CarolynSolie, KarenSolie, KarenSteffler, JohnStill, JenniferSzumigalski, AnneVenart, S.E.Walsh, AgnesZwicky, JanZwicky, Jan

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Cypress / $18.00The 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 / $18.00The Vicinity / $15.00Elimination 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 / $17.00The Fetch / $19.00The Truth of Houses / $19.00Inter Alia / $17.00Immigrant Blues; English translations by Amela Simić / $15.00Breaker / $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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