Stephen Brockwell ISBN 978-1-77126-129-6 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages Families guard the unsaid. Neighbours listen over the fence and whisper. Technobabble, journalese, and the relentless sloganeering of politics strip-mine our last great cultural resource: words. Amid the detritus of that site, Stephen Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together stakes out a reclamation zone, prospecting for an […]
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My Life Without Me
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 978-1-77126-133-3 $17.00 CDN/USA 80 pages In My Life Without Me, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has created a kind of spiritual autobiography abstracted from its environment. It is a lyrical and philosophic exploration of the world and a deep meditation on the cultural distinctions we subscribe to and which we try to […]
Matt Santateresa
It has been something of a sad year at Mansfield. In the spring we lost Rishma Dunlop after her long battle with cancer. On October 2 it was Matt Santateresa’s turn. Matt was the author of three books of poetry: Combustible Light, A Beggar’s Loom and Icarus Redux. We published the latter two volumes and […]
Alice Burdick at Lexicon Books
Alice will be launching her latest on her home turf at Lexicon Books. With music!
And on to St. George
Isn’t it about time for a nice weekend drive in the country? We’ll be at the pastoral Adelaide Hunter Hoodless Homestead at 2 pm to launch new Mansfield titles. Please join us.
Mansfield on the Road!
First day of the spring launch tour! We are in Montreal tonight, Kingston tomorrow and Toronto on Tuesday. 7 PM in all locations. Please join us, we haven’t seen you in a while!
Rishma Dunlop October 19, 1956 – April 17, 2016
It is with great sadness that I must share the news that our beloved colleague and friend Rishma Dunlop died last Sunday after an heroic battle with cancer. Her association with Mansfield was long and fruitful, resulting in four books over the years, beginning with her first, The Body of My Garden, back in […]
Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines
Jason Heroux ISBN 978-1-77126-117-3 $17.00 CDN/USA 104 pages Jason Heroux’s fourth collection of poems finds him in the laboratory. Working in free verse, more formal structures, and the prose poem, Heroux’s image-rich lines explore loss, death, angst—but with wit, an empathetic gentleness, and magic. And Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines culminates with several long poems […]
Shiner
Eva H.D. ISBN 978-1-77126-121-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 108 pages Shiner is Eva H.D.’s powerful successor to her critically acclaimed debut, Rotten Perfect Mouth, and includes the Montreal International Poetry Prize–winning “38 Michigans.” This is lyrical poetry that is as beautiful as it is angry, bracing in the sharpness of its observations. Whether noting the emotional effects […]
Book of Short Sentences
Alice Burdick ISBN 978-1-77126-109-8 $17.00 CDN/USA 128 pages In her ground-breaking fourth collection, Alice Burdick’s playful and challenging—and often surreal—poems are deeply imbued with the landscape of Nova Scotia’s south shore, as well as her own inner landscape, and the landscape of family. Her poems explore, too, the human vessel in which we carry […]
