And if you want the full Mansfield fall line-up, mark Sunday, November 19th on your calendar. We’ll be doing our Toronto hometown event at the legendary Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St.) at 2 in the afternoon. The featured writers are, Puneet Dutt with “The Better Monsters,” Branka Petrovic with “Mechanics of a Gaze” and Nelson Ball with […]
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Mansfield Montreal Launch Tonight
A Gentle Reminder Please join us tonight at Dazibao for our fall book launch. All the details are just a short scroll down this page or go here. We start at seven pm. Music, Dance, Poetry, Wine. What’s not to like?
Brockwell wins Archibald Lampman Award
We have to interrupt our previously scheduled promotion of next week’s Montreal book launch to congratulate Stephen Brockwell on winning the Archibald Lampman Award! All Of Us Reticent, Here, Together is a worthy book and Stephen is long overdue for the recognition he so rightfully deserves. It […]
Mansfield Montreal Launch
Mark the date! Date: Tuesday, Oct. 24 2017 Time: 7-10pm Location: Dazibao 5455, de Gaspé avenue, suite 109 (GF) Montréal (Québec) Canada H2T 3B3 Mansfield is heading out on the road for our first fall launch with new work by Branka Petrovic, Puneet Dutt, and Nelson Ball. Puneet and Nelson won’t be able to attend but we’ll […]
Submit your poetry to Priscila Uppal’s upcoming anthology
Mansfield Press is teaming up with Priscila Uppal to produce Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology and we would like you to be a part of this important book. Here’s the pitch: Current statistics predict 1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. We need more art to understand the complexity and […]
Stephen Brockwell nominated for the Archibald Lampman Award!
We think Stephen Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together is one fine book and apparently we are not the only ones! It has been nominated for the Archibald Lampman Award and the winner will be announced on October 18th at Ottawa City Hall in conjunction with the Ottawa Book Awards. You can see Stephen […]
Meaghan Strimas at WOTS today
If you’re in Toronto today and going to Word on the Street, don’t miss Meaghan Strimas reading from her new, Trillium Award winning book Yes or Nope. She’ll be at the “Vibrant Voices of Ontario” tent at 2:35 along with fellow Trillium winner Melanie Mah.
Stephen Brockwell gets a closer look.
It’s so hard these days to get reviews for poetry but Prairie Fire is still fighting the good fight with a thoughtful review of Stephen Brockwell’s All of Us Reticent, Here, Together. Critic James Gifford concludes “This is a collection to read in a single sitting.” He’s right about that and we’ll just add that […]
Glutton for Punishment gets its first review
And it’s not from the usual literary tastemakers we might expect to review poetry. Laura Wiebe is the managing editor of Hellbound.ca and co-host of weekly metal show Kill Eat Exploit the Weak on CFMU 93.3 FM. Her take on Glutton for Punishment: Highly Recommended.
A Trillium Award for Meaghan Strimas
The Trillium Awards put on a great show every year with one night of readings and one night devoted to the awards. Bathing in the afterglow of the win are Mansfield publisher Denis De Klerck, Meaghan Strimas, and Stuart Ross, who edited Meaghan’s wonderful book Yes or Nope. Congratulations to Meaghan (and to Stuart) for […]
