Stephen Brockwell ISBN 978-1-77126-012-1 $17.00 CDN/USA 104 pages Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell has stumbled upon a vault of startling—and non-existent—volumes of outrageous poetry. This compendium of verse, Brockwell’s fifth full-length collection, draws from this imaginary motherlode, showcasing the poet at his most incisive, most harrowing, most political, and funniest. Here you’ll find unhinged narrative poems […]
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What The World Said
Jason Camlot ISBN 978-1-77126-016-9 $17.00 CDN/USA 112 pages Jason Camlot’s fourth full poetry collection, a Kaddish for the post-google age, explores the meaning of ignorance in the face of death—ignorance of how to practice sadness and rituals of mourning, and of how properly to experience longing and loss. Camlot manipulates a wide range of forms […]
ReLit shortlist recognizes Jason Heroux!
Congratulations to Jason Heroux, whose enchanting third full-length poetry collection, Natural Capital, has landed on the shortlist of the feisty ReLit Award! The ReLit is given to three books — a poetry book, a novel, and a story collection — published by independent Canadian publishers. Jason’s first two books, also from Mansfield Press, are Memoirs […]
Monkey Soap
Glen Downie ISBN 978-1-77126-028-2 $17.00 CDN/USA 80 pages A sculptor, someone said, carves an elephant from a block of stone by chipping away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant. So in Monkey Soap, Glen Downie wields a poet’s incisive chisel to reveal poems hidden in other people’s prose. Not only a sculptor of language, […]
Dear Leaves, I Miss You All
Sara Heinonen ISBN 978-1-77126-020-6 $20.00 CDN/US184 pp A workaholic sees the natural world with new eyes when her former colleague succumbs to a botanical affliction. Three teenagers try to sort out their friendships and their looming adulthood while their parents behave like teenagers. A Chinese immigrant struggles to accept his daughter’s developing sexuality as he […]
A busy time for Mansfield and the authors!
Mansfield’s five fantastic fall titles are the printer, and we’ll soon be announcing our fall group tour, with launches in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and more. In the meantime, Mansfield authors have a lot going on… Stephen Brockwell, October 25, Ottawa International Writers Festival Stephen Brockwell launches his new poetry collection, Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable […]
“a deep suspicion of the artists”: Alex Porco talks with Alice Burdick
One of the most interesting discussions between poets over this past year has been that initiated by Alessandro Porco with Alice Burdick (author, most recently, of Holler). Begun last year at Open Book Toronto, the conversation continues now on the Lemonhound blog. This time Alice talks about poetry and visual art; her late mother Mary […]
Ottawa’s Dusty Owl wisely invites Jim Smith
Jim Smith, author most recently of Happy Birthday, Nicanor Parra, reads Sunday (June 23) at the esteemed — and often wacky — Dusty Owl reading series in Ottawa. Jim will be joined by Peterborough writer/activist Lesley Belleau and Ottawa musician Matthew Larkin. It all happens at 3 pm at Mugshots Bar, 75 Nicholas Street. It’s […]
Why are you so happy? David W. McFadden wins the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize!
David W. McFadden has won the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize for his Mansfield Press collection What’s the Score?. At the June 13 Griffin gala, in the company of his wife, Merlin Homer, his daughter Jennifer, his brother Jack, and his grandson Benny, plus a bunch of really famous people, Dave accepted his $65,000 cheque from […]
The enduring Steve Venright
Some books are sleepers. Some poems are created during sleep. It’s possible Steve Venright’s magical 2007 collection, Floors of Enduring Beauty, has elements of both those scenarios. We at Mansfield think Floors is one of the funniest, wisest, and smartest books published in this country so far this century. Meanwhile, over at Literatured.com, our friend […]
