Collusion Books
is donating to the crowd funding campaign
I am very pleased that Collusion Books is donating once again this year.
Based in Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Collusion Books publishes print & digital chapbooks of collaborative poetry & cross-art collaborations with poetic elements.
Of Collusion’s first ten titles, four have been shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award—a testament, we think, to the dynamism and wonderment of collaborative art.
Collusion’s revenue & donations defray print costs, support poet & artist compensation, and assist long con‘s Contributor Fund.
Learn more about Collusion through our TIFOA Small Press Map profile & Arc Poetry interview.
Collusion Books is donating 10 chapbooks. Visit our crowd funding campaign page to check out these perks and more. Visit Collusion Books site and their companion publication Long Con Magazine for more great work!
machine dreams by Liam Burke & Natalie Hanna
“machine dreams embodies its title: a blend of sweeping surrealism and sharp-edged device […,] precarious […] between the strict infrastructure of the machine and the soft vulnerability of the body.”
—Olive Andrews in Arc Poetry Magazine
Towers by VII
VII is seven voices fused into one exquisite corpse: Manahil Bandukwala, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, nina jane drystek, Chris Johnson, Margo LaPierre, and Helen Robertson. Based on the belief that seven minds are better than one and that many ideas make joyous chorus, we say: We are I and I is VII. Formed in March of 2020, VII is based in Ottawa, Ontario, the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg.
Caution Tape by Yoko's Dogs
Yoko’s Dogs (Jan Conn, Mary di Michele, Susan Gillis, and Jane Munro) is a collaborative poetry group writing linked verse in English, following and reinventing traditions of Japanese poetry. Previous publications include Whisk (Pedlar Press, 2013) and Rhinoceros (Gaspereau Press, 2016).
Sprawl | the time it took us to forget by Manahil Bandukwala & Conyer Clayton
“Sprawl is a well-crafted constricted versescape. [Its] blending of a human life with the landscape […] is seamless […] with wonderful shifts and changes in the topography of the long poem.”
—Phinder Dulai in Rungh
I Found Myself in You by 10 Canadian poets
I Found Myself in You, an ouroboros of the rediscovered & remixed, features 10 new poems by 10 rising poets: Manahil Bandukwala, Roxanna Bennett, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Síle Englert, Paola Ferrante, Kevin Andrew Heslop, David W. Janzen, Nisa Malli, Terese Mason Pierre, and Khashayar Mohammadi.
In a Moebius strip celebrating the chapbook form, each of these poets takes a chapbook by the next poet as inspiration, provocation, and textual material for crafting new work.
Source chapbooks include publications by venerable Canadian chapbook presses Anstruther Press, Baseline Press, Frog Hollow Press, and Knife Fork Book.
Worry & Fuck by Dessa Bayrock & Katie Stobbart
featuring bad ass poems such as It’s God’s Own Trick of Light and Her Irradiated Imprint, “explores death, sex, and the poltergeist of the lizard brain.”
ERE by Simina Banu & Amilcar John Nogueira
Bound tête-bêche (head-to-toe, like reversible bilingual books), ERE creates a strange loop of regret & reflection.
ABRACADABRA by Joshua Chris Bouchard & Fawn Parker
A collection of collaboratively written poems, ABRACADABRA expertly balances maximalism & minimalism on tightrope inscribed “The whole world is / a toilet.”
How to Get a Thigh Gap by Nisha Patel & Bree Taylor
A redacted manifesto against bodily redaction.
phizog••• by Gary Barwin & Dona Mayoora
Self-portraiture meets vispo in this full-colour intervention against the persistent pseudoscience of physiognomy.
if you support the AngelHousePress 2023 Caring Imagination Crowd Funding Campaign, this is one of the perks that you can choose.
