The tireless rob mclennan reviews Alice Burdick’s latest in Prairie Fire.
Carey Toane comes to town
Mansfield author Carey Toane will come to Toronto for a reading from her latest book, The Crystal Palace on July 10. She will be appearing with poets Stephanie Bolster and Tomy Bewick. It’s an 8 pm start time at Pauper’s Pub (second floor) 539 Bloor St. West, Toronto. Hope to see you there!
Jaime Forsythe and Alice Burdick on CKCU FM in Ottawa this evening
Listen up tonight at 6:30 pm to Jaime Forsythe and Alice Burdick talking about their new books with Christine McNair on the show Literary Landscape. You’ll find it streaming at CKCUFM.com
Review of Tristan Hughes’ Eye Lake
Reviewed by Alisha Kaplan Eye Lake Tristan Hughes Coach House Books, 2011 208 pages, $19.95 Where the Lost Things Are: A Review of Tristan Hughes’ Eye Lake Eye Lake is Tristan Hughes’ heartbreaking portrait of Crooked River, a declining iron ore town in Northern Ontario, and of a deceptively simple young man weighed […]
LPG an Essential Service to Literary Publishers in Canada
For many years Mansfield Press has relied on the Literary Press Group of Canada to represent our books across the country. Their sales force is second to none and we have always felt grateful for an organization that is committed to literary publishing and enthusiastic about poetry. Now they are in trouble.
Mansfield editor Stuart Ross offers July writing workshops in Ottawa
AFTER JOE BRAINARD A one-hour writing workshop sparked by the literary works of the late and magnificent Joe Brainard, on the occasion of the release of his Collected Writings and the re-release of the legendary Bean Spasms collaboration between Joe, Ron Padgett, and Ted Berrigan.
Amy Lavender Harris Tours Toronto
Amy Lavender Harris, author of the award-winning Imagining Toronto, has her profile published in the Queen’s Alumni Review. Click here to read the article.
Necakov and Toane hit the Hammer!
Mansfield Press poets Lillian Necakov (Hooligans, The Bone Broker) and Carey Toane (The Crystal Palace) will read from their published and new works at the Lit Live Reading Series in Hamilton, on Sunday, June 3, at 7:30 pm. The venue is Homegrown Hamilton, at 27 King William Street, and other writers on the bill are […]
literatured.com reviews the spring 2012 poetry quartet from Mansfield
Jay Miller, the young lit-wrangler at Kingston-based literatured.com, has given all four spring 2012 poetry titles from Mansfield Press thoughtful and detailed reviews. Jay has attended the last few Mansfield events in Kingston, and we’re grateful for his interest in the press and the poets we publish. Here’s a bit of Jay on In This […]
Jaime Forsythe’s Sympathy Loophole reviewed in Kingston micro-mag
Jaime Forsythe’s debut poetry collection, Sympathy Loophole, was recently reviewed in the first issue of a very fine and very tiny literary magazine called illiterature., out of Kingston, Ontario. Mansfield has been bringing its writers to Kingston to launch their books for a few years now; we get an awfully nice welcome from the amazing […]



























