Edited by Stephen Brockwell and Stuart Ross ISBN: 978-1-894469-48-7 $16.95 106pp When Prime Minister Stephen Harper prorogued Parliament (for the second time in a year!) on December 30, 2009, he punted many vital bills into oblivion. But he also inspired hundreds of poems after Mansfield Press announced this government-toppling anthology. This book gathers a range […]
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Red Silk
Rishma Dunlop & Priscila Uppal ISBN 1-894469-16-X $19.95 CDN $15.95 US 184 pp An anthology of South Asian Women Poets Edited and introduced by Rishma Dunlop and Priscila Uppal with poetry by: Hiro Boga, Kuldip Gill, Sonnet L’Abbé, Danielle Lagah, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye, Sharanpal Ruprai, Sandeep Sanghera, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Proma Tagore, Rishma Dunlop, and […]
The Profane Earth
Ollivier Dyens ISBN 1-894469-17-8 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 112 pp The Profane Earth is a series of poems exploring man’s helplessness when confronted with the extraordinary dance of death, time, and sexuality. Alternating between dream landscapes and the narrative of daily life, between the animalistic and the rational, The Profane Earth explores the sacred nature […]
Particle and Wave
Booker, Difalco, Heroux, Leggat, Nussey ISBN 1-894469-31-3 A Mansfield Omnibus of Electro-Magnetic Fiction Featuring Julie Booker, Salvatore Difalco, Jason Heroux, Alexandra Leggat, Kent Nussey Mansfield Press presents a showcase of short fiction for uneasy times. Particle and Wave illumines the borderland where the urgencies of daily life clash with our best intentions. Ranging from the […]
Mongrel
Marko Sijan ISBN 13: 978-1-894469-54-8 $19.95 CDN/US 202 pp Set in Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, Marko Sijan’s explosive debut novel, Mongrel, mixes tragedy, black comedy and pathos in its five chapters, each narrated by a different youth, each of whom tilts closer toward an abyss of violence. Their inextricably linked stories span twelve manic […]
The Milk of Birds
Gary Michael Dault ISBN 1-894469-29-1 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 102 pp The 100 poems making up The Milk of Birds (the title comes from a chocolate candy the author’s partner loved when she was a girl in Poland) began as a deliberate homage to Kenneth Rexroth’s 100 Poems from the Chinese (1971). Soon into his […]
Metropolis
Rishma Dunlop ISBN 1-894469-24-0 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 58 pp Metropolis is a visionary work that dreams the elegiac landscape of cities like Toronto, where genteel Victorian culture leans hard against Sri Lankan ghettos; where prostitutes and cocaine dealers ply their trade next to green streets immaculate with rose gardens. In Metropolis, urban portraits of […]
Memoirs of an Alias
Jason Heroux ISBN 1-894469-18-6 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US 80 pp In this debut collection, Jason Heroux describes the atmosphere of a world that is both realistic and bizarre. His simple, clear poems capture the strange and mysterious absurdity of everyday life. The world becomes a place where shadows are kept in jars, where a frightened […]
The Lucky Child
Marianne Apostolides ISBN: 978-1-894469-47-0 $19.95 CDN/US 208 pp How do we construct the story of ourselves and our countries? How do we know our histories, our memories, our identities? These are the questions that compelled Marianne Apostolides to ask her father about his childhood in wartime Greece. Her probing unleashed a torrent of stories he’d […]
Living in Paradise
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ISBN 1-894469-05-4 $19.95 CDN 172 pp Afterword by Dennis Lee After fifteen years of publishing silence, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco is back. Living in Paradise contains his best poetry from the seventies and eighties along with his first new poetry since he left the literary world to join a monastery. As […]
