Brick Books imprint: 228 books

At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Karyotype’s poems range from the title sequence, which explores the DNA and woven textiles of this woman and her vanished people (a karyotype...

Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first acquaintance….. in a blur of words." The cross-relationships that occur, in a poetry of technical virtuosity that feels as easy as breathing, are sensed to be permanent.

In linked poems of great individual power, Kenneth Radu addresses the matter of Romania, the country of his ancestors, summoning figures from myth, distant and recent history, and the arts. The cast of characters includes Dracula, Prince Vlad the Impaler, and the devil -- all related to Ceausescu himself...

Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. Reunion is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poems commune with ghosts in an attempt both to reckon with and subvert their legacy. It is a tale of the impossible...

Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.

Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry Bert Almon's poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy, tragedy, paradox, tenderness. "Poetry," he has said, "is a message slipped...

Ed Dyck finds that you cannot say "piss" on the radio in Saskatoon. There wasn't very much radio promotion of his book. That's a shame. Everybody should know about the cat Jack and the world Dyck compacts around him in 15 "sonnets."

Winner of the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region) and shortlisted for the 2009 ReLit Award Lucid accurate detail and music at every turn.Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David...

Haven hero Jaguar is lured into the city's sewers where he meets one of the Metropolis' most feared villains. While the stories of Haven are not serial in nature, meaning you can pick up pretty much anywhere, this is officially story #4 in the series. Written by the author of The Guardians, Keepers of...

No one knows how deities come into being, unless you are in the city of Haven. Join author J.A. Giunta on this great twist on a fantasy tale. From the author of the Guardians, Keppers of the Magic Series.A story in the Haven Fiction Series, where authors tell the tale of the mythical city of Haven. While...

A tip leads Jaguar on a hunt for the villainous Reaper. Finding him could be his last act.A story in the Haven Fiction Series, where authors tell the tale of the mythical city of Haven. While the stories are not serial, you can pick up any in the series, this is officially Story #9Haven is a city...

A secret government agency tries to make things right in the crime plagued streets of Haven. The "Costumes" will soon have to make a simple choice, work for the agency, or face a far worse fate. As always, all is not what it seems when it comes to this city.A story in the Haven Fiction Series, where...

The Haven self proclaimed protector Jaguar is saved... by the most unlikely of heroes in the Haven Story by Nicholas Ozment.A story in the Haven Fiction Series, where authors tell the tale of the mythical city of Haven. While the stories are not serial, you can pick up any in the series, this is officially...

Jason Cooper takes the idea of the winged baby a little too far when his love goes sour. In a fit of passion, he becomes just another of the costumed vigilantes on Haven's streets. Another in the series of comic fiction stories based in the city of Haven.A story in the Haven Fiction Series, where authors...