Celebrated Halifax poet Sue Goyette, whose marvellous book Ocean has been shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize, recently read at Ottawa’s VerseFest with David W. McFadden. Dave, of course, took last year’s Canadian Griffin for his collection What’s the Score? and is currently launching Shouting Your Name Down The Well: Tankas and Haiku (both […]
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Gary Barwin Gets Inside Stephen Harper
Here’s a great video for a poem that appears in Gary Barwin’s brand new Moon Baboon Canoe.
Moon Baboon Canoe Trailer
Here is a little trailer for Gary Barwin’s Moon Baboon Canoe which will be launched in Toronto on April 9th at the Monarch Tavern.
Happy birthday, Dave’s dad!
Happy birthday, William McFadden (David’s dad)! He turns 100 on Wednesday, January 22! Here, David reads William’s introduction to Mother Died Last Summer (Mansfield Press, 2013) at a private launch party in Hamilton at the home of Gary Barwin and Beth Bromberg. In attendance were William McFadden, David McFadden and Merlin Homer, other members of […]
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 […]
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 […]
