Baseline Press

07/27/2024

Permutations by Paula Turcotte is a NEW poetry chapbook reviewed by TMR contributor and poet Pearl Pirie. Published by Baseline Press.

📚”Permutations by Paula Turcotte is a high energy chapbook of the urban depressed and stressed. It is fresh and punchy as well as comic at times. She doesn’t wade though refrains of constancy. The forms fit as they each vary, in triplets, couplets and blocks.”

Pearl’s review continues ➡️ Don’t miss it!
https://miramichireader.ca/2024/07/permutations-by-paula-turcotte/

07/02/2024

Now available from Baseline Press - a first collection from poet Paula Turcotte! With many thanks to editor Cassidy McFadzean and cover artist Karen Kryzan. https://www.baselinepress.ca/ #/permutations-paula-turcotte-2024

01/04/2024

Baseline Press will be open for poetry chapbook submissions in 2024! Details are on the website and please email if you have questions
https://www.baselinepress.ca/aboutbaseline

12/08/2023

Baseline is closing out the year with Sharon McCartney’s Hey Trouble and Other Poems. Now available on the Baseline website! Sharon is the author of seven books of poetry, including Metanoia (Biblioasis, 2016) and Villa Negativa (Biblioasis, 2021). In this latest chapbook collection, she confronts our attraction to trouble, trials, and tribulations.

10/06/2023

Eve Joseph's chapbook Distractions is officially out and available on Baseline's website!
Eve's previous books include In the Slender Margin (non-fiction, HarperCollins, 2014) and Quarrels (poetry, Anvil, 2018). Distractions is a collection of new prose poems - poems written in short paragraphs whose fragmented sentences create a surreal, dreamlike mosaic. Eve says: "I love the dissonance inherent in the form: between the ordered, square boxes of text and the wild, uncultivated gardens they hold."
Thanks to editor Annick MacAskill and cover artist Jill Kuhn. Author photo: Patrick Friesen

10/04/2023

Laboni Islam's Light Years has been shortlisted for the 2023 bpNichol Chapbook Award!

Congratulations to Laboni and the other shortlisted poets & presses:
Cassidy McFadzean (Third State of Being, Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers)
kitchen mckeown (I Need Not Be Good, Rahila's Ghost Press)
James Lindsay (The Lake, Knife Fork Book)
Jason Christie (Glass Language Untitled Exaltation, above/ground press)

And many thanks to the Meet the Presses collective, as well as this year's contest judges, Alice Burdick & Betsy Warland

09/07/2023

The 2023 Meet the Presses H of a Night is coming to a Zoom near you!

06/17/2023

Performance & chapbook launch Sunday June 25th in Guelph, in honour of Pride Month, presented by https://www.animaearlymusic.com/ and Baseline Press. Come celebrate with us! Ticket details here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/membra-jesu-nostri-a-sung-devotion-tickets-647308676677

02/22/2023

Very grateful for Olive Andrews' joint review of Jody Chan's militant and Laboni Islam's Light Years for Canthius magazine

In the fall of last year, Baseline press debuted a new poetry line-up of four chapbooks, including Laboni Islam’s Light Years and Jodi Chan’s militant . I am lucky enough to sit down with these two works and explore their intermingled threads.

12/13/2022

Delighted to see that The Ampersand Review is now reviewing chapbooks! So impressed by these 5 first reviews by Sheridan College students Jacob Alvarado & Emily Breitkopf, including Jacob's review of Laboni Islam's Light Years
https://theampersandreview.ca/chapbook-reviews

Introducing Cornelius’s Chapbook Corner, a new feature on our website! Looking for a new chapbook press to support? You can check out five brand new reviews for chapbooks by several different presses now on our website theampersandreview.ca.

11/21/2022

Many thanks to Daniela Elza and The British Columbia Review for this review of Cornelia Hoogland's Dressed in Only a Cardigan, She Picks up Her Tracks in the Snow (Baseline Press, 2021)

09/19/2022

Baseline, along with 16 other small presses, will be selling books at the Toronto International Festival of Authors this Saturday! On the south lawn of Harbourfront Centre, 11am-5pm. Please come say hi

Harbourfront Centre’s Bays & West Lawn, September 24 at 11am–5pm ET Meet the people behind the pages of Canada’s independent publishing houses at TIFA’s small press market. With presses attending from across Ontario, you won’t want to miss this unique opportunity to check out the variety o...

08/27/2022

05/17/2022

Singer-songwriter (and Baseline author) Jenny Berkel has a new album out! These Are the Sounds Left From Leaving, with Outside Music. Baseline was honoured to make a special reprint of Jenny's 2021 chapbook, Grease Dogs, as a bonus for the first 25 LP orders

03/12/2022

This winter, Baseline Press partnered up with Exile Editions to produce a very special book - The Thinking Heart: The Etty Drawings (1983-1984), celebrating the work of artist Claire Wilks. Next month, for National Poetry Month, knife | fork | book at The Great Escape Book Store [KFB EAST] will be collaborating with author Jessica Hiemstra for its launch:
https://knifeforkbook.com/2022/03/10/yellow-stars-and-crocuses/

This April, National Poetry Month, knife | fork | book at The Great Escape Book Store [KFB EAST] has collaborated with poet/artist Jessica Hiemstra to welcome the launch of The Thinking Heart: The …

03/04/2022

Thanks to Jessica Hiemstra and Kirby for their visit! They brought a little spring to London ❤️
https://poetryisqueer.com/2022/03/03/london-days-part-one/

London Days. Part One. Travelling with dear poet/friend JESSICA JOY HIEMSTRA to visit Baseline Press publisher, KAREN SCHINDLER who recently realized Jessica’s new chapbook for Exile Editions…

01/02/2022

"There is an evocative image in a poem called 'Tarp' of the poet wearing 'a thought over my head until it catches the wind.' I definitely want to be standing in that same field, seeing what the wind brings." The kind Cary Fagan reviews Dave Hickey's *Safe Vehicles for a Dying Planet* (Baseline Press, 2021) for "Word Music": https://word.music.blog/2022/01/01/the-museum-of-ordinary-things/

Dave Hickey, Safe Vehicules for a Dying Planet. London, Ontario: Baseline Press, 2021, 60 copies. Dave Hickey is a ruminator, a thought-chewer who has no interest in hurrying himself to the end of …

09/19/2021

"Wilhelmina is never reduced for us. Her full life, her memories, the way she holds onto the people who matter to her—all of that remains fiercely present." A big thank you to Cary Fagan for this review of Cornelia Hoogland's chapbook Dressed in Only a Cardigan, She Picks up Her Tracks in the Snow (Baseline Press, 2021) https://word.music.blog/2021/09/17/dear-tiny-vanities/

Cornelia Hoogland, Dressed in Only a Cardigan, She Picks Up Her Tracks in the Snow.  London, Ontario: baseline press, 2021, 60 copies. Without doubt there are particular challenges in writing …

07/16/2021

Many thank yous and several rounds of applause to The Pamphleteer for their ongoing attention to all things chapbook. Here is their look at Cornelia Hoogland's Dressed in Only a Cardigan, She Picks up Her Tracks in the Snow https://thepamphleteer.website/dressed-in-only-a-cardigan-she-picks-up-her-tracks-in-the-snow-by-cornelia-hoogland/

In twelve prose poems, Cornelia Hoogland sketches a biography of her mother, from birth to passing.

07/04/2021

Our book launch is a week from today! We're really hoping you'll be able to join us. Please register here, and you'll be sent a link to join the event next Sunday: http://bit.ly/BaselinePress2021

We’re having a summer Sunday afternoon chapbook party! Please join us as we celebrate Baseline’s 11th season with the launch of 7 new poetry titles by... • Alycia Pirmohamed & Pratyusha (UK) • Dave Hickey (PEI) • Jenny Berkel (NS) • Jason Dickson (ON) • David Janzen (ON) • Arleen Par...

06/15/2021

Baseline's 2021 chapbooks are available today! These 8 authors have worked incredibly hard this past year, and we're thrilled to be getting their collections out into the world www.baselinepress.ca

06/02/2021

Many thanks to ALHS for this review of Second Memory by Alycia Pirmohamed & Pratyusha (Baseline, 2021) for The Poemgranates Newsletter https://thepoemgranatesarchive.wordpress.com/2021/05/31/review-second-memory-by-alycia-pirmohamed-and-pratyusha/

What does one do on peering into a poem—or a photograph of an ancestor—and seeing oneself there? What does one do with a precedence like that?

05/11/2021

“Author photo” by the most magical Rima Sater last fall. Veryveryvery excited to share the poems in 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴 and veryveryvery excited to read all of the beautiful chapbooks being published by Baseline Press this summer. ♡