Jaime Forsythe ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-74-6 $16.95 CDN/US 62 pp This lively first collection, often both creepy and hilarious, serves up an image-laden universe — the sideshow we call home — where contortionists, womanizing ventriloquist dummies, and pickled sharks compete with the everyday for the mark’s hard-earned buck. Jaime Forsythe’s poetry is loaded with wit, mystery, […]
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Alice Burdick ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-70-8 $16.95 CDN/US 80 pp In her follow-up to 2008’s Flutter, former big-city-dweller Alice Burdick explores nature and the small town, taking a cue from children learning their voices: “All I see are trucks, / trucks and ducks.” With a blend of playful narrative and an Ashberyesque collage approach, Burdick paints […]
In This Thin Rain
Nelson Ball ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-66-1 $16.95 CDN/US 82 pp In his first full-length poetry collection since 2004, Nelson Ball, Canada’s most renowned minimalist, offers up compressed meditations — ranging from the whimsical to the mournful — on clouds, birds, insects, trees live and dead, water-stained walls, crumbling windmills, and hyphenation. Ball’s poems are meticulously polished gems that move through […]
Mansfield’s Spring 2012 Ontario Poetry Launch Tour
The spring 2012 poetry books are at the printer, and the Ontario launch tour is lined up, with stops in four cities. We’re thrilled to bring you new collections by Canadian poetry vets David W. McFadden and Nelson Ball, the third book by Alice Burdick, and a debut collection […]
Amy Lavender Harris represents at Representing Toronto
Amy Lavender Harris, author of Imagining Toronto, takes part in the panel Representing Toronto: Mapping the Role of the Artist in the City, on Monday, April 2, at the Koffler Centre of the Arts, in Toronto. Amy has long been a go-to person on the topic of Toronto’s portrayal in literature, and since the publication […]
Tom Walmsley’s new play opens in Toronto March 23!
Tom Walmsley’s new play, The Nun’s Vacation, opens on March 23 in Toronto, and runs until April 8. The third Walmsley play to be produced by Doghouse Riley, The Nun’s Vacation will be performed at the Toronto Free Gallery at 1277 Bloor West. The comedy — about sex and religion — features Glen Matthews, Stephen Chambers, and […]
Leigh Nash reads from Goodbye, Ukulele
Here is a fond memory of Leigh Nash dropping by the dear old Mansfield office to read from her poetry collection Goodbye, Ukulele. As Leigh shares her birthday with St. Patrick’s day, remember to raise a glass of green beer in her honour.
Book review: The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Reviewed by Peter Norman The Reinvention of the Human Hand Paul Vermeersch McClelland & Stewart, 2010 88 pages, $18.99 Created more than 17,000 years ago, the cave paintings at Lascaux depict hundreds of animals. The purpose of the images is unknown: their significance may have been religious or shamanistic, or possibly scientific […]
Mansfield at the Stop Farmers’ Market Today
Mansfield will be sharing a table this morning with our very own editor Stuart Ross at the regular Saturday Farmers’ Market in the Wychwood Barns. It’s a great opportunity to come by and talk books while picking up your weekly supply of meat and veg. All our books are 100% organic and so is the […]
Paina, Coluccio, Di Cicco, Smith and Norman: Great writers reading around town soon!
On December 3rd Mansfield authors Corrado Paina, Pino Coluccio and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco are featured in a one night poetry marathon along with 22 other Italian Canadian poets. And on December 6th, Jim Smith and Peter Norman read at the Boneshaker Reading Series at the St Clair/Silverthorne Library. Check out our upcoming event page for […]
