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 pla
Funny and frank, playful and unpredictable, frequently outrageous and undeniably smart--Meaghan Strimas's poems explore the lives of girls, women, and a few bad men who maybe wish they were a little b
Families guard the unsaid. Neighbours listen over the fence and whisper. Technobabble, journalese, and the relentless sloganeering of politics strip-mine our last great cultural resource: words. Amid
Branka Petrovic's sophisticated debut collection delves into the life and work of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, exploring his muses, the male gaze, and the eroticized female body. The poems take as t
The catalogue of wishing as it reaches into your mind and into your heart. To the almanac of heartbreak, unfulfilled promises and misspelt dreams. The fathers, the mothers or your invented narrative r
If a book can be a mirror, The Better Monsters reflects what we see in ourselves, in others, and in each other. Replete with compelling protagonists and cross-referencing multiple identities, Puneet D
The Gravel Lot that was Montana is a collection of poems that acts as a meditation on migration and place through the viewpoint of a contemporary Lenape speaker. It explores the physical and emotional
Chewing Water continues Nelson Ball's fascinating forays into the social, into communities of humans, after spending decades writing almost exclusively about nature. While mourning, loss, and decay ar
In his first full-length collection since winning the prestigious bpNichol Chapbook Award for Small Waterways, and since the release of the landmark Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball, our mos
This is no typical mid-life crisis. Poet Priscila Uppal, faced with a very serious and frightening health crisis as she turned 40, reexamined her relationship to everything in her life, including her
In My Life Without Me, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has created a kind of spiritual autobiography of the self abstracted from its environment. It is a lyrical and philosophic exploration of the world around
In her fourth poetry collection, Alice Burdick delves deeper into the life of a Toronto/Vancouver urbanite who has relocated to small-town Nova Scotia to live, work and raise a family. Her quirky, pla
Living an enjoyable life with his wife in the suburbs, Nathan comes to discover he was once a dog named Scooter and his previous owners have arrived in town to reclaim him. This insight puts Nathan on
Catullus (c. 84 - 53 BC) was raised in a leading equestrian family in Verona. At twenty he moved to Rome and fell in with a group of new poets, or neoteroi as Cicero called them, living a hedonistic e
In The Body of My Garden, Rishma Dunlop takes a voyage around the heart in poems that embody the burdens and exhilaration of love. Whether recreating the paradise gardens of Moghul India, or writing a
