The Star-Brushed Horizon, is one of Don Gutteridge’s best books. After 60 books they just keep getting better. Gutteridge has a wonderful gift for drawing the reader in.
Read More
Jim Christy Author: Jim Christy Title: The Heart of the World ISBN: 978-1-927725-57-3 Trade Paperback: 168 pages Suggested Retail (Paperback): $19.95 E-Stores: Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, Indigo and other e-stores worldwide. Check each e-store for the best price on book and shipping as prices tend to vary from store to store. 22 Words: Heart of the World, is...
Read More
Out of Darkness, Light is a book of poetry written in the voices of fictional Cambridge, Ontario women who practice feminist worship by the Grand River. These poems of light are some of April Bulmer’s best work. Wind, water, moon, sun, earth and rain are all celebrated as spiritual inspirations for this new collection of poems.
Read More
John Di Leonardo’s masterful ekphrastic project involves the writing of a collection of fine poems each of which is inspired by an original work of art. Although he is working in the poetic tradition of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts,” Di Leonardo is first and foremost a painter who brings to bear the eye of a man whose primary art is visual.
John B. Lee
Author of over 60 titles.
Inundations looks back at the past – childhood and growing up – with wry humour and an ironic eye. Gutteridge’s poems pack an emotional punch.
Read MoreHome Ground, is considered to be one of the best of Don Gutteridge’s almost 60 books. Gutteridge has a divine gift; he crafts visions with an elegant ease, splashing colors on canvas of the mind’s eye. Home Ground recreates the past so vividly it argues for the concept of time standing still.
Read More
‘These Are the Words’ is one of Canada’s finest double author collections with George Elliott Clarke and John B. Lee. Their work is outstanding.
Read More
You will grow if you read this book as slowly as it was intended to be read. Don’t be in a hurry. Enjoy the gentle rain of these poems.
Read MoreThe Silence Before the Whisper Comes Author – Bruce Kauffman Publisher – Hidden Brook Press ISBN – 978-1-897475-98-0 Page Count = 112 Suggested Retail Price: $17.95 These quiet meditations offer lovely moments of clarity and expansion that “sew / history to future / with the fine needle of...
Read More
ZenRiver Poems & Haibun Chris Faiers Hidden brook Press (www.hiddenbrookpress.com) 2008 ISBN: 978-1-897475- 25-6 perfectbound, English language, $15.95 CDA Shaving his head and donning the robes of a Zen monk, Matsuo Basho and his travelling companion and fellow monk, Sora, set out on a...
Read More
Title – A Small Payback: An Ode to Victoria Lake Author – Richard M. Grove Genre – Photography – FULL Colour / Poetry / Canadian ISBN – 978-1-927725-31-3 Pages – 120 Binding – Hardcover / Case Bound / Full colour every page. Retail Price – $32.95 Distributors – CND – Hidden Brook Distribution Free Shipping ...
Read More
‘Fruit Wedge Moon’ is Zap, grackle, pop! East meets west in these contemporary urban micro poems. Whether exploring haikai forms or improvising jazz renku pops, these poems swing and bop!
Read More
Author: John B. Lee Title: Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea ISBN: 978-1-897475-19-5 Trade Paperback: 86 pages Suggested Retail: $16.95 E-Stores: Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, Indigo and other e-stores worldwide. (Check each e-store for the best price on book and shipping as prices tend to vary from store to store.) ...
Read More
More Naked Than Ever is the first full collection of poetry by Gary Rasberry. This collection will not let you down.
Read More
The Iron Shoes is a fine collection of poems inspired by Kingston’s streets and haunted houses. Elizabeth Greene also journeys through her past, invoking and laying to rest some of her old ghosts.
Read More
In the Café du Monde, may very well challenge the reader but don=t hesitate to trust it even if you are a new poetry lover.
Read MoreThere is a sureness here, a confidence, that seduces the reader. The language flows as naturally as the rivers her mother lived beside… The main things that make these poems so moving are the highly developed sense of empathy and ability to invoke the ineffable with the...
Read More
Poems in A Breeze You Whisper speak of love – earthy and sensual. This collection of Kathryn MacDonald’s poems explores nature and relationships, many reflecting on the universal experience of change. Her passion for the spirit of place like the wind over sun-warmed rocks is deepened by the myths she lives by.
Read More
Bitches With Problems interrogates with wisdom, joy, and a true sense of how to create self-preservation within a poetic memoir form. Ranging from engaging poetry to direct tell-all memories of past escapades, Bridget Ryan takes her reader on a ride they will never forget.
Read More
Byzantium was the polyglot, culturally Hellenic Roman world, which strattled continents and worldviews. byzantium uses multiple voices and dialects, trespassing generations, exploring the heritage and memory of a single mind.
Read More‘Window Fishing: The Night we caught Beatlemania’ is so populare it is now in the third edition with new stories, poems and essays. It will be cherished by anyone that lived in the Beatles eara or wants to understand the significance of the pop fanomenon called Beatlemania.
Read More‘In This We Hear the Light’, is an exceptional collection of Cuba theme poetry by award winning poet, John B. Lee, – without a doubt some of his most outstanding work, juxtaposed with an equally splendid assembly of Cuba theme photography by Richard M. Grove (Tai). The poems and photographs represent the inspiration from many years of travelling in Cuba.
Read More
Like a semi-autobiographical novel in over forty chapters, the stories that make up ‘A Mad Bent Diva’ range from intimate portraits of a queer childhood, to lengthy narratives about a group of friends who engage in annual holidays at a favourite beach property where ‘bitchiness’ prevails, carnal knowledge raises its frequently campy head, and life affirming camaraderie reigns supreme.
Read MoreCrossing Borders brings you a splendid collection of poetry and micro-prose from an eclectic assembly of authors. Cross the sands of time and swim in the ocean of this impressive work. You will not be let down.
Read MoreIn her new book, And With Thy Spirit, award-winning poet and mystic, April Bulmer, speaks in the tongues of many women based on her visions of past lives. Even her favourite tree is a familiar old soul and “bows his stiff knees/ to weather.”
Read More
Looking for Light ponders how to create beauty and meaning in our troubled world, considering the arts, spirituality, even particle physics, and life’s ultimate transformation.
Read More
“We are reading our way out of sadness.” So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, “Paper Stairs.” And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug’s Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan.
Read More
The settings for David Pratt’s poetry are as diverse as their content and form, including Canada, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Israel, France, Norway, Spain, and the isles of Greece. Certain themes recur: war is one of them, reflecting the poet’s childhood under German bombers in wartime England. Another theme is art and artists, celebrating the work of the Canadian Fred Varley, the Czech Jakub Schikaneder, the Norwegian Edvard Munch, and the Dutch van Gogh. Other poets and writers are memorialized: Irving Layton, Al Purdy, Isaac Babel, André Frénaud. Interspersed among these pieces are personal poems that record the heart`s journey across the decades.
Read More
From its innovative sonnet sequence on Canada’s Prime Ministers to myriad ruminations on matters local and intimate, national and universal, Way’s redirection is a Canadian book of poetry that seeks, unceasingly, to lay bare the Canadian psyche and that of the world beyond.
Read More
The deeper subjects of these fifty-eight spare poems—minute observations over some sixteen years of a single stretch of swamp and bush, and of the self that does the observing—include the alien/ kindred lives and deaths of birds, animals and trees; the miraculous gift of light; the relationship between ourselves and the world we observe (what difference does it make that, in us, the natural realm both is and is known?); and our troubled sense of time carrying us and our world ineluctably towards the known end of death and decay, and perhaps too the unknown we always sense beyond the surface of things. These poems are to be read carefully, turned over in the mind, and savoured with a slow and complex delight.
Read MoreThe most significant book of translated Cuban poetry ever published.
Read More“In the Muddy Shoes of Morning!” is a wonderful book of poems- I see here the influences of your years on the farm, and this newer influence of the lake! – Mary Ann Mulhern
Read More
With ‘A Thief of Impeccable Taste’ Glen Sorestad adds to his growing stature as one of Canada’s most enduring poets. A Thief of Impeccable Taste is poetry for people who may not think of themselves as poetry readers.
Read More
Grandfather, Father and Me:
Memories, Poetry, and Good Food
is a perfect gift for any father or grandfather, in fact any family member.
It is a moving collection of short stories, poems and recipes about
grandfathers and fathers and men of influence. It is truly a loving tribute.
Read this warm and inviting book aloud at the dining room table with the whole family.
It will make young and old laugh and cry.
It will make a fine gift that will give joy for years to come.
It is a loving tribute to our Grandfathers and fathers for their fostering, nurturing, cherishing, for their encouragement.
Read MoreGrandmother, Mother and Me
Memories, Poetry, and Good Food
is a perfect gift for any mother or grandmother. It is a touching collection of short stories, poems and recipes about grandmothers and mothers. It is truly a loving tribute.
Read this warm and inviting book aloud at the dining room table with the whole family. It will make young and old laugh and cry.
It will make a fine Christmas gift that will give joy
for years to come.
Read MoreCelebrating Christmas with… Memories, Poetry, and Good Food is a tradition-filled book of memories in prose, poetry and recipes. Read this book aloud at the dining room table with the whole family. It will make young and old laugh and cry.
Read More
Award-winning haiku poet, James Deahl, teams up with photographer Richard M. Grove (Tai) to create this striking full colour collection of haiku and photography. This noteworthy volume brings you ten haiku sequences and photographs, both celebrating the beauty of Ontario, especially Hastings and Wellington Counties – North of Belleville.
Read MoreTheodore Christou’s lucid, experimental poetry collection an overbearing eye offers a mind thinking and feeling in language and a voice of distinctive tonal vulnerability and self-irony.
Read MoreBruce Kauffman doesn’t establish his voice as a grand authority, but rather, as a seeker, a sojourner; his is a poetry of both wisdom. The poems in this book are timeless mirrors to be read slowly with thought.
Read More
Tara Kainer ISBN: 978-1-897475-68-3 Trade Paperback: 101 pages Publication Date: June 1, 2011 Suggested Retail (Paperback): $17.95 Amazon: http://www.amazon.ca/When-I-Think-Your-Lives/dp/1897475683 Tara Kainer is a writer who pulls no punches – deeply self-examining, she takes on the natural world, love, war, and poverty, and insists on a human...
Read MoreThe poetic voices in ‘That Not Forgotten’ have rallied together to paint a deeply personal portrait hand-tipped with nostalgia. The pulse of Lake Ontario’s north shore is felt on every page. Mimicking the historic and contemporary landscape, the pendulum swings from seasoned bards to freshly scratched voices worthy of an undivided eye.
Read MoreI like books that open new worlds for me. This is one. It will take you on a tour of the weird and wonderful world of hippies—not as seen by an outsider or imagined by us ordinary people, but as remembered by a genuine draft-resisting, love-making, pot-smoking 1960s hippie.
Things like that couldn’t happen today. The world has changed. I remember going to a love-in on a California beach in 1966, where the security was provided by the Hells Angels and everything went swimmingly. Even with the brutality of the Vietnam War in the background, in some ways our society was more innocent then.
Read More
