Congratulations to Brick Books on 31 years of publishing great Canadian Poetry

Rattling Books loves Brick Books. I just wanted to get that out of the way well in advance of Valentine's Day. Brick Books is 31 and Rattling Books is only 3 so it's not what you're thinking. They've been more than kind to us and we just want to thank them for being like that. Especially after 31 years!

In 2006 Brick Books published the following seven poetry titles:

When Earth Leaps Up Anne Szumigalski Edited by Mark Abley; Preface by Hilary Clark; Afterword by Mark Abley

I, Nadja and Other Poems Susan Elmslie
Kingdom, Phylum Adam Dickinson
Ink Monkey Diana Hartog

Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee Poems Jan Conn Preface by Sir Peter Crane, Director of the Royal Botanic (Kew) Gardens, London, England

Ghost Country Steve Noyes

Anatomy of Keys Steven Price
From Brick Books' email update (which you can sign up for on their website) comes the following summary of some other highlights for Brick Books in 2006.

...Barry Dempster won the 2006 Jack Chalmers Poetry Award [Canadian Authors Association] following his nomination for the 2005 Governor General’s Award for Poetry for his book The Burning Alphabet; this book was also longlisted for the Re-Lit Award. On November 22, 2006 Susan Elmslie won the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize for her first book I, Nadja and Other Poems [Quebec Writers’ Federation]. Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price is a Globe 100 title for 2006.

An Oak Hunch by Phil Hall was nominated for the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize. Karen Solie’s second book Modern and Normal was nominated in 2006 for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. David Seymour was shortlisted for a Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for his first book Inter Alia. Lunar Drift by Marlene Cookshaw, Modern and Normal by Karen Solie and Souwesto Home by James Reaney were all longlisted for a Re-Lit Award...

For more information on any of these titles, visit Brick Books website.

There are two Brick Books that have or will appear as audio editions with Rattling Books:

Hard Light: 32 Little Stories by Michael Crummey, narrated by Ron Hynes and Diedre Gillard-Rowlings (2003)

The Grey Islands by John Steffler, narrated by John Steffler with Frank Holden, Janis Spence, Diedre Gillard-Rowlings and Daryl Hopkins (coming in March 2007)