Great news! Yes or Nope by Meaghan Strimas has been nominated for a Trillium Award and we couldn’t be happier. Here is the announcement with a list of all the worthy shortlisted titles. Congratulations to Meaghan and of course, Stuart Ross for his editorial acumen.
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Mansfield Spring Launch! (With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein)
As silver white winter melts into spring here are a few of our favourite things: Books of course; four brand new titles that are as strong and various as anything we have ever published. Please join us at any one of the events listed below to hear new work by Samantha Bernstein, Christopher Doda, Kasia Jaronczyk […]
Lemons
Kasia Jaronczyk ISBN 978-1-77126-140-1 $20.00 CDN/USA 134 pages In the linked stories of Kasia Jaronczyk’s Lemons, the lives of Basia and her family are seen through a kaleidoscopic lens that follows them over twenty years from communist Poland, to their new home in Canada, then back to Poland, to make sense of everything that has happened […]
Whatever, Iceberg
Tara-Michelle Ziniuk ISBN 978-1-77126-137-1 $17.00 CDN/USA 88 pages “What if love existed but you didn’t have your notification settings turned on?” This is the first question Tara-Michelle Ziniuk asks in Whatever, Iceberg. The answer is a raucous portrait of love gone wrong (and sometimes right) in the Internet age. These are poems that capture the nervous […]
Glutton for Punishment
ISBN 978-1-77126-148-7 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages In Glutton for Punishment, Christopher Doda updates an ancient poetic form for the 21st century. The glosa is an old metrical form from the royal Spanish court system where a poet takes four lines from another poet and uses them to create a new forty-line poem (four ten-line stanzas where […]
Spit on the Devil
Samantha Bernstein ISBN 978-1-77126-144-9 $17.00 CDN/USA 104 pages How do the words we use shape our thoughts and actions? Can poems disrupt passivity, or is art one of its conduits? Spit on the Devil is a lyrical evocation of these questions and a searing interrogation of progressive sentiments during a time of regressive politics. Combining outrage […]
Reading Alice Burdick
It’s very nice to see Alice Burdick’s latest Book of Short Sentences get a little attention. CV2 has published a small overview in their Snapshots section but Alex Porco really takes a deep dive in Jacket 2. It’s so difficult these days to get worthy books reviewed. The major papers rarely mention poetry and when […]
Mansfield loads the bases at the ReLit Awards
The ReLit Award Long Shortlists have just been announced and Mansfield has managed to have three titles singled out in the poetry section. There are strong titles on this year’s list so it is great to be recognized in such great company. Congratulations to Eva H.D., Tara Azzopardi, and Nick Papaxanthos. Now for the home run!
Stephen Brockwell in Vancouver
rob mclennan just posted a nice little write-up of his trip to Vancouver to read with Mansfield Press author Stephen Brockwell at the venerable Lunch Poems at SFU reading series. Stephen read from his brand new All Of Us Reticent, Here, Together. Sounds like a lot of fun.
PEN Fundraiser
Our valiant former editor Stuart Ross has come up with a fantastic idea for a fundraiser in support of the important work PEN Canada does. Here’s the scoop: 1,000 Bird Poems by Necakov: A PEN Fundraiser Marathon 1,000 Bird Poems by Necakov: A PEN Fundraiser Marathon will feature about 25 guest poets and other personalities, […]
