Welcome to Rubicon Press
Rubicon Press publishes chapbooks and broadsides of extraordinary poetry from authors in Canada and around the world. We’re looking for work that resonates; poetry that is more than just excellence of technique and use of multiple forms. We seek poetry that moves, inspires and affects.
Press News
New chapbook by Ariel Gordon and broadside by Joanne Ellison!
What better way to welcome in summer (at last!) than with an incredible new chapbook and broadside? We’re really excited to announce the release of Ariel Gordon’s chapbook Guidelines: Malaysia & Indonesia, 1999 and Joanne Ellison’s superb new broadside “A Trick of Oranges.” Both titles are now available on our Chapbooks & Merchandise page…pop by and check them out!
2008 Midwinter Chapbook Competition Winner Announced!
Many congratulations to John B. Lee, the winner of Rubicon Press’s third annual Midwinter Chapbook Competition! John’s manuscript, Let Light Try All the Doors, was selected from over 40 submissions from around the world. John’s collection will appear in September, heading up Rubicon’s 09/10 publishing season.
We’d also like to highly commend Kath MacLean for her manuscript there are bears and Andrew Faulkner for his manuscript Made of felt and held with a pin.
Many thanks to all who entered! We really enjoyed reading your work, and we’re grateful to you for sharing your poetry with us. We’ll be sending all entrants a copy of John’s chapbook once it is released, plus two chapbooks from our 08/09 season.
New titles from Rubicon Press!
David Zieroth’s beautiful new chapbook Berlin Album and Yi-Mei Tsiang’s stellar broadside “On Surrendering” are now available! Visit our Chapbooks page for details.
Two new upcoming collections head to print
We’re thrilled to announce that David Zieroth’s Berlin Album and Dipika Mukherjee’s Palimpsest of Exile will soon be released as part of our spring lineup. These two stellar new collections play magnificently off each other…we hope you enjoy them!
Exciting new collection from Bill Howell!
Rubicon Press would like to heartily congratulate Bill Howell on the upcoming publication of his fourth book, Porcupine Archery, which will be released by Insomniac Press this spring. We look forward to reading it when it comes out, Bill!
Bill Howell wins WCDR Chapbook Challenge
Congratulations to Bill Howell, whose Rubicon chapbook Ghost Test Flights has just been named one of the three winners of this year’s Writers’ Circle of Durham Region (WCDR) Chapbook Challenge. Judges noted the following about Bill’s book:
“The cover image conveys both the whimsy and the peril that the poems are about to take us through. Tough, sturdy diction, rough textures, black humour, and an irresistible cadence throughout this collection made the poems’ experiences come alive. In spite of some unfamiliar seafaring jargon and suggestions of regional east-coast speech, those rhythms and thick, tasty words carried us headlong through any difficulties. Humour yes, but this is also a book that doesn’t flinch at horror. Whether of the things the sea does to crash victims, or of the final fading in memory of a dead friend, Howell looks right at it, unforgetting and unforgettably.”
For sample poems and a short reading, check out:
http://www.wcdr.org/wcdr25/?cat=14
Congratulations, D.S. Martin!
Many congratulations to D.S. Martin, whose Rubicon chapbook So The Moon Would Not Be Swallowed won an Award of Merit at the Word Guild’s gala on June 11th in Mississauga. Don’s first full-length collection, Poiema, is forthcoming from Wipf & Stock (Eugene, Oregon) this year.
