Brick Books x Writers at Woody Point
Writers x Brick Books: 50 Years of Canadian Poetry
📍 Thursday, August 21 at 4 PM | The Merchant Warehouse
🎟 Free event
Join us as Brick Books celebrates 50 years of publishing Canadian poetry with a special event at Writers at Woody Point, honouring the past, present, and future of poetry—especially as it lives and thrives in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Hosted by Michael Crummey—one of Brick’s most beloved and internationally recognized authors, and a writer deeply rooted in this place —this intimate afternoon features readings by acclaimed poets Anna Swanson and Matthew Hollett, whose work continues Brick’s legacy of publishing distinctive, resonant voices from the Atlantic edge.Together, these poets reflect the depth and range of Brick’s catalogue, from groundbreaking debut collections to works that have shaped the Canadian canon.
Live music by Ellie Hamilton and Hannah Russell—talented local musicians and Writers at Woody Point summer assistants — adds to the spirit of celebration.
About Brick Books
All Poetry All the Time
As one of the few poetry-only publishers in the world and a long-venerated member of Canada’s publishing industry, Brick Books is a hub and a home for poets and lovers of poetry. Our guiding goal is to listen to and amplify urgent voices in poetry, and to do so with kindness and rigour. We aim to stand for and lavish attention upon unquantifiable things, and to make way for perspectives that have been marginalized; we believe in poetry as a space to speak publicly what can’t be said or heard elsewhere. Our mission is to hold space for poetry in Canada and the world (or, in other words, to champion a hard-to-commodify art form in a capitalist culture!) and to do it with an almost obsessive level of care. We commit to each book by pouring all of our resources into it because poetry is our thing — not a side project to other genres, so we do the very best we can by it.
Through the curation of poetry with deep craft and something at stake, Brick Books strives to broaden the definitions of what poetry can be and do. We stand for reconnecting beautiful words to their political power. We aspire to bring moving and relevant books into the world, to honour poetry as an intangible-but-essential act of attention and crucial mode of speech.
