Sarah Burgoyne ISBN 978-1-77126-113-5 $20.00 CDN/USA 172 pages Saint Twin is a collection of story poems, short lyrics, long walks, tiny chapters, and fake psalms. This startlingly original debut by Sarah Burgoyne explores absurdity, loss, and wonder, leaping intuitively from speaker to speaker, scene to scene, and sometimes (but not always) hunting for a holy […]
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Chewing Water
Nelson Ball ISBN 978-1-77126-105-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 120 pages Chewing Water continues Nelson Ball’s fascinating forays into the social, into communities of humans, after spending decades writing primarily about nature. While mourning, loss, and decay are featuring more heavily than ever in his poetry, friendship, hope, and love are gaining on those themes. Nelson’s poems concentrate […]
Mansfield Press spring 2016 launch tour
We’re happy to be hitting the road again to bring you five amazing new poetry books! So far we have dates for Montreal, Kingston, Toronto and Paris. Stay tuned for Lunenburg, Nova Scotia! But first, the books: Nelson Ball, Chewing Water Alice Burdick, Book of Short Sentences Sarah Burgoyne, Saint Twin Jason Heroux, Hard Work […]
Mansfield Press on the Road!
It’s that time of year again, when we finally get to share the marvellous projects we have been working on, and you get a chance to meet our authors up close and personal. Posted below you will find an updated launch schedule. We hope you can join us along the way. It’s time we had […]
New Fall Launch Dates
After a lovely Peterborough launch of Tara Azzopardi’s Last Stop, Lonesome Town, we are continuing our tour of the fall books. Please join us along the way to meet our authors and hear some great readings. And check back in on this page as we may be adding dates.
Live From The Underground
Corinne Wasilewski ISBN 978-1-77126-089-3 $20.00 CDN/USA 232 pages Teenagers Darek Dąbrowski and Eleanor Hanson come from two different worlds. In Communist Poland, Darek is consumed with the idea of a one-way ticket to America and its Levi Strauss jeans and Adidas sneakers. He wants to get away from the country that jailed his father, […]
Mean Season
Salvatore Difalco ISBN 978-1-77126-085-5 $20.00 CDN/USA 250 pages It is 1980. The buildings and storefronts at Barton Street and Sherman Avenue are dilapidated remnants of Hamilton’s once-thriving steel industry. The corner is also the nexus of a violent street gang that has left citizens terrorized and police impotent. Mean Season chronicles the random beatings, arson, […]
Abnormal Brain Sonnets
David W. McFadden ISBN 978-1-77126-097-8 $17.00 CDN/USA 120 pages In James Whale’s 1931 film Frankenstein, the doctors clumsy assistant, Fritz, reaches for the jar marked “Normal Brain.” When he drops that one, he turns to the jar marked “Abnormal Brain.” In Abnormal Brain Sonnets, Griffin Prize-winning poet David W. McFadden, now in his sixth decade […]
Last Stop, Lonesome Town
Tara Azzopardi ISBN 978-1-77126-101-2 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages In this quirky and beautiful vaudevillian debut, Tara Azzopardi employs sharp social observation and a pop-culture universe from the past and present to explore the struggles we face in constructing our own identities, both public and private. Whether she’s dating Caspar the Friendly Ghost, observing Agatha Christie […]
Love Me Tender
Nick Papaxanthos ISBN 978-1-77126-093-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages Award-winning poet Nick Papaxanthos’s first collection is a rollicking, fast-frame, strobe-light-illuminated tour through the surrealism of the ordinary. These poems, composed while getting a haircut or investigating the contents of a sandwich, peer through the windows of the mundane into a world of fractured wonder. The reader […]
