@BrickBooks facebook.com/brickbooks 519-657-8579 www.brickbooks.ca
www.brickbooks.ca Educators and students – look inside to find out how Brick Books is making your life easier, with podcasts, ebooks, maps, study guides, and free books!
YOUR ONE-STOP EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR CANADIAN POETRY
Connect with Brick Brick Books has published well-known Canadian writers like Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, and P.K. Page, as well as introduced Karen Solie, Adam Dickinson, Sue Sinclair, Karen Connelly, Sue Goyette, Agnes Walsh, Steven Price, and Julie Bruck. Brick Books is the only publishing company in Canada that exclusively publishes poetry. Founded in 1975 in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay, the press continues its dedication to fostering interesting and compelling work by Canadian poets and translators of poetry, both new and established.
Brick Books 101
BRICK books
BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS – NEW EDITIONS OF OUR MOST POPULAR (AND MOST TAUGHT) TITLES. The Grey Islands Short Talks
John Steffler
A classic of Canadian Anne Carson wilderness writing – Riddle-poems that consist the tale of a man’s selfimposed isolation on only of answers. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Carson’s an uninhabited island first book-length collection. off Newfoundland’s northern shore.
Riffs
A Really Good Brown Girl Marilyn Dumont
Wittgenstein Elegies Jan Zwicky
Hard Light
Dumont investigates her Complex, intricately textured Michael Crummey Dennis Lee Metis heritage in her first and polyphonic poems The story of a passionate collection, Brick Books’ exploring philosopher Crummey (Galore) love affair, told in vintage all-time bestselling book. retells and reinvents his Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Lee style – with whoops, spiritual life. father’s stories of outport deep chords and headlong Newfoundland and the improvisational arcs. Labrador fishery.
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Spring 2015
Fall 2015
CELEBRATE YEARS WITH BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS
www.brickbooks.ca Educators and students – look inside to find out how Brick Books is making your life easier, with podcasts, ebooks, maps, study guides, and free books!
@BrickBooks facebook.com/brickbooks
YOUR ONE-STOP EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR CANADIAN POETRY
519-657-8579 www.brickbooks.ca
Connect with Brick Brick Books has published well-known Canadian writers like Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, and P.K. Page, as well as introduced Karen Solie, Adam Dickinson, Sue Sinclair, Karen Connelly, Sue Goyette, Agnes Walsh, Steven Price, and Julie Bruck. Brick Books is the only publishing company in Canada that exclusively publishes poetry. Founded in 1975 in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay, the press continues its dedication to fostering interesting and compelling work by Canadian poets and translators of poetry, both new and established.
Brick Books 101
BRICK books
BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS – NEW EDITIONS OF OUR MOST POPULAR (AND MOST TAUGHT) TITLES.
Short Talks
The Grey Islands
A Really Good Brown Girl
John Steffler
Marilyn Dumont
A classic of Canadian wilderness writing – Riddle-poems that consist the tale of a man’s selfimposed isolation on only of answers. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Carson’s an uninhabited island first book-length collection. off Newfoundland’s northern shore.
Riffs Dennis Lee
Anne Carson
The story of a passionate love affair, told in vintage Lee style – with whoops, deep chords and headlong improvisational arcs.
Spring 2015
Dumont investigates her Metis heritage in her first collection, Brick Books’ all-time bestselling book.
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Wittgenstein Elegies Hard Light
Jan Zwicky
Complex, intricately textured and polyphonic poems exploring philosopher Crummey (Galore) Ludwig Wittgenstein’s retells and reinvents his spiritual life. father’s stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery.
Michael Crummey
Fall 2015
CELEBRATE YEARS WITH BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS
Podcasts You can listen to readings by your favourite Brick Books poets without ever leaving your home. Brick Books’ website features an impressive archive of over one thousand poems – from 1975 to today – recorded by their original authors:
www.brickbooks.ca/podcasts The poems can also be found for free at Brick Books’ YouTube channel:
youtube.com/user/brickbooks Or at Brick Books’ AudioBoo channel:
audioboo.fm/BrickBooks
Poetry Map From coast to coast to coast, and around the world, Brick Books’ Poetry Map links to recordings, behind-the-scenes diaries, excerpts and more from Brick Books poets based on their psychogeographic locations. Find the poetry connection closest to you! Find what poem was written just down the street!
maps.google.com/brickbooks
E-book Library Though we’ve been around for four decades, we like to keep current. Over 150 of Brick Books titles are available in e-book format! Never read a poem in ebook format before? Here’s your chance. From Helen Humphreys’ Anthem and Goran Simic’s Immigrant Blues to Carolyn Smart’s Hooked and Randall Maggs’ Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, there are e-books for all poetic tastes. From 1975 to the present, there are Brick titles from every era available on your e-reader. Find Brick Books in PDF and EPUB format at the Brick Books website or at your favourite e-book vendor: • Kobo
• Overdrive
• Amazon
• Follett
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• Apple
• Barnes & Noble • EBSCO
Student Portal Brick Books has a brand new online portal dedicated to students of poetry. With advice from university and college educators, we developed the student portal to showcase specially created content for educators to use in the classroom, such as: • author interviews and readings • full book reviews • extensive author questionnaires • author bibliographies • writing exercises • studies of individual poems • conversations between authors and editors • discussions of literary devices • and much, much more!
www.brickbooks.ca/students
Book Offer
free
How do you feel about poetry books?
If you feel good about them, read on. Brick Books is proud to formally announce our Educator Book Offer Initiative! If you’re a teacher at a high school, university, or college, and would like to offer free books of Canadian poetry to your students, Brick Books can help! Simply contact us, and we’ll send you overstock books to help build your student library. Since 2001, Brick has mailed out over 26,000 free books to high school and post-secondary students, classes, and instructors. This offer, like a good professor’s office door, is always open.* Just drop us a line at
[email protected]. * Please note this offer is for use as a student resource, and not to be used to build full class sets of titles.
YEARS OF BRICK BOOKS
Podcasts You can listen to readings by your favourite Brick Books poets without ever leaving your home. Brick Books’ website features an impressive archive of over one thousand poems – from 1975 to today – recorded by their original authors:
www.brickbooks.ca/podcasts The poems can also be found for free at Brick Books’ YouTube channel:
youtube.com/user/brickbooks Or at Brick Books’ AudioBoo channel:
audioboo.fm/BrickBooks
Poetry Map From coast to coast to coast, and around the world, Brick Books’ Poetry Map links to recordings, behind-the-scenes diaries, excerpts and more from Brick Books poets based on their psychogeographic locations. Find the poetry connection closest to you! Find what poem was written just down the street!
maps.google.com/brickbooks
E-book Library Though we’ve been around for four decades, we like to keep current. Over 150 of Brick Books titles are available in e-book format! Never read a poem in ebook format before? Here’s your chance. From Helen Humphreys’ Anthem and Goran Simic’s Immigrant Blues to Carolyn Smart’s Hooked and Randall Maggs’ Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, there are e-books for all poetic tastes. From 1975 to the present, there are Brick titles from every era available on your e-reader. Find Brick Books in PDF and EPUB format at the Brick Books website or at your favourite e-book vendor: • Kobo
• Overdrive
• Amazon
• Follett
40
• Apple
• Barnes & Noble • EBSCO
Student Portal Brick Books has a brand new online portal dedicated to students of poetry. With advice from university and college educators, we developed the student portal to showcase specially created content for educators to use in the classroom, such as: • author interviews and readings • full book reviews • extensive author questionnaires • author bibliographies • writing exercises • studies of individual poems • conversations bewteen authors and editors • discussions of literary devices • and much, much more!
www.brickbooks.ca/students
Book Offer
free
How do you feel about poetry books?
If you feel good about them, read on. Brick Books is proud to formally announce our Educator Book Offer Initiative! If you’re a teacher at a high school, university, or college, and would like to offer free books of Canadian poetry to your students, Brick Books can help! Simply contact us, and we’ll send you overstock books to help build your student library. Since 2001, Brick has mailed out over 26,000 free books to high school and post-secondary students, classes, and instructors. This offer, like a good professor’s office door, is always open.* Just drop us a line at
[email protected]. * Please note this offer is for use as a student resource, and not to be used to build full class sets of titles.
YEARS OF BRICK BOOKS
@BrickBooks facebook.com/brickbooks 519-657-8579 www.brickbooks.ca
www.brickbooks.ca Educators and students – look inside to find out how Brick Books is making your life easier, with podcasts, ebooks, maps, study guides, and free books!
YOUR ONE-STOP EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR CANADIAN POETRY
Connect with Brick Brick Books has published well-known Canadian writers like Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, and P.K. Page, as well as introduced Karen Solie, Adam Dickinson, Sue Sinclair, Karen Connelly, Sue Goyette, Agnes Walsh, Steven Price, and Julie Bruck. Brick Books is the only publishing company in Canada that exclusively publishes poetry. Founded in 1975 in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay, the press continues its dedication to fostering interesting and compelling work by Canadian poets and translators of poetry, both new and established.
Brick Books 101
BRICK books
BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS – NEW EDITIONS OF OUR MOST POPULAR (AND MOST TAUGHT) TITLES. The Grey Islands Short Talks
John Steffler
A classic of Canadian Anne Carson wilderness writing – Riddle-poems that consist the tale of a man’s selfimposed isolation on only of answers. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Carson’s an uninhabited island first book-length collection. off Newfoundland’s northern shore.
Riffs
A Really Good Brown Girl Marilyn Dumont
Wittgenstein Elegies Jan Zwicky
Hard Light
Dumont investigates her Complex, intricately textured Michael Crummey Dennis Lee Metis heritage in her first and polyphonic poems The story of a passionate collection, Brick Books’ exploring philosopher Crummey (Galore) love affair, told in vintage all-time bestselling book. retells and reinvents his Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Lee style – with whoops, spiritual life. father’s stories of outport deep chords and headlong Newfoundland and the improvisational arcs. Labrador fishery.
40
Spring 2015
Fall 2015
CELEBRATE YEARS WITH BRICK BOOKS CLASSICS
