Next on the Mansfield Spring Tour is London Ontario at 7pm April 8. We’ll be at the Landon Branch London Public Library 167 Wortley Rd. London N6C 3P6 Featuring • My Planet of Kites, by Marie-Ève Comtois, translated by Stuart Ross & Michelle Winters • Rotten Perfect Mouth, by Eva H.D. • The Purpose Pitch, […]
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Rotten Perfect Mouth
Eva H.D. ISBN 978-1-77126-081-7 $17.00 CDN/USA 72 pages Rotten Perfect Mouth is a wonderfully fresh first book by a writer with an intuitive ear for colourful, musical language. These poems are loose enough for the reader to flop down inside and stay awhile. They are plangent, personal, confessional, noisy, nostalgic, and maybe a little bit broken. […]
My Planet of Kites
Marie-Ève Comtois ISBN 978-1-77126-061-9 $12.00 CDN/USA 64 pages My Planet of Kites is a rich suite of prose poems that document an intimate universe, mixing personal and pop-culture references in language colourful, painful and humorous. The narrator’s reflections on the thrilling—but usually mundane—aspects of everyday life will resonate with anyone who seeks shared dreams of travel, […]
punchlines
Aaron Tucker ISBN 978-1-77126-077-0 $17.00 CDN/USA 98 pages punchlines is a lyric long poem that probes the poetic tensions in the everyday languages of computer-user collaboration. Within the narrative structure of a Canadian couple’s drive down the West Coast of the United States, the poems set this exploration between the call (poem title) and response […]
The Purpose Pitch
Kathryn Mockler ISBN 978-1-77126-069-5 $17.00 CDN/USA 96 pages Drawing from a range of contemporary poetic traditions, The Purpose Pitch explores the overlap between narrative, pop culture, and the political. These poems are often funny, sometimes harrowing, and always unsettling. Through rants, narrative prose poems, absurdist dialogues, brutal police reports, invented biographies of real people, Google […]
Sabotage
Priscila Uppal ISBN 978-1-77126-073-2 $17.00 CDN/USA 98 pages Sabotage is a covert exploration of public and private acts of destruction, disruption, and vandalism in the 21st century. With devious grace, award-winning author Priscila Uppal probes vital sites that are under attack or at risk, such as the human body, the communities and families we live among, and […]
Toronto launch — March 23!
You are invited to Mansfield Press’s spring poetry launch party on March 23, 7:30 pm, at the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton Street)! We are pleased to be celebrating: My Planet of Kites, by Marie-Ève Comtois (trans. Stuart Ross & Michelle Winters) Rotten Perfect Mouth, by Eva H.D. The Purpose Pitch, by Kathryn Mockler punchlines, by […]
A Grab Bag of Fab Frags; Arc Poetry reviews Stephen Brockwell
It’s nice to see Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books by Stephen Brockwell getting a little love from Arc Poetry Magazine. According to Jesse Patrick Ferguson the book “is engaging both in content and craft,” and we couldn’t agree more. He also says “Perhaps the highest compliment that can be paid to Fragments is that it’s easy […]
Mansfield Launches New Books
Mansfield is going on the road! Please join us in celebrating our latest titles. Sunday, November 30, 2 pm — St. George, ON Adelaide Hoodless Hunter Homestead, 359 Blue Lake Road, just west of Hwy. 24 Readings + screening of Nelson Ball & Barbara Caruso / Home Project / A Photo Documentary Featuring Nelson Ball, […]
Some Talk of Being Human
Laura Farina ISBN 978-1-77126-045-9 $17.00 CDN/USA 90 pages It’s been nearly a decade since Laura Farina’s celebrated first book of poetry, This Woman Alphabetical, won the 2006 Archibald Lampman Prize for best book by an Ottawa poet. Farina’s follow-up, Some Talk of Being Human, which she began almost immediately after, is a charming, whimsical and occasionally […]
