Today we’re pleased to share the latest edition of Book*hugs Recommend, featuring a round-up of our staff’s favourite summer reads. These are the books that we have been reading and enjoying this summer. Hazel Millar, Co-Publisher When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà Either/Or by Elif Batuman Pure Colour by Shelia […]
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Next in our Fall 2022 Preview Series is Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene by Alessandra Naccarato. This collection of lyrical essays—the latest addition to our Essais Series—traces the veins of harm, memory, and meaning amongst ecosystems, and invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, and that of the elements that surround us. “A […]
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This week’s Fall 2022 Preview spotlights Learned by Carellin Brooks. Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations of mind and body. In these poems, the speaker trembles on the verge of […]
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Today’s Fall 2022 Preview features River Halen’s Dream Rooms. Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, this newest addition to our Essais Series is about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as […]
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Next in our Translation Duos Series, we are featuring Chantal Neveu and Erín Moure on the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning poetry translation, This Radiant Life. Drawing on the lexicons of science, art, and revolution, This Radiant Life forges intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. In its brevity […]
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Next up in our Fall 2022 Preview Series comes tend, a visceral and playful sophomore poetry collection from Kate Hargreaves which reflects the intimate awkwardness of modern life. tend explores feelings of being distanced from loved ones, physically and emotionally; striving to be better (at chores, at intimacy); and tending to the things that fracture. These poems […]
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For this week’s Fall 2022 Fiction preview, we are featuring The Animals, a whimsical novel by award-winning author Cary Fagan. In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving […]
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of beloved Canadian novelist, essayist, and poet Stan Dragland. An author and friend of the press, Stan was many things to so many of us: the founder of Brick Books and Brick Literary Journal, a member of the Order of Canada, professor emeritus at the University […]
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It’s August, and that means Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) is here at last! Throughout the month, we will be speaking with author-translator duos, getting the lowdown on what it means to collaborate on a translation, how it feels to find oneself in a new language and what one discovers in and between languages. First […]
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