broke press

12/16/2024

BONUS FINAL RELEASE OF THE YEAR!

Morel, a poem and block print broadside by Jennifer Blake.

These broadsides are around 8x10 inches, with the poem digitally printed, and the block print added to each with an oil based inked afterwards. So grateful to work with amazing multitalented artists.

This one is MOSTLY a thank you gift to my Patreon supporters, but there are about 15 available for purchase hehe. $12. local drop off available :)

12/13/2024

TMI BOOHOO POST INCOMING! ngl guys the Canada Post strike has been hurting this little press at Christmas time a lot more than I anticipated!!! I usually count on Christmas time orders to help me hit that break even level of the broke press $! it’s been a TOUGH book selling year to begin with but my usual flurry of pre Christmas orders never came this year ! all this to say: broke press doesn’t exist without people buying chapbooks :) I don’t get any govt funding (I have too many publications for some publishing grant eligibility but no full lengths publications to get the other side of grant eligibility) so my goal is to just sell enough books that I can reasonably keep broke press chugging along and support writers and projects that excite me :) I’m proud to pay my writers, even if it’s only a small honorarium, so supporting broke press is supporting writers too

so this is a little PSA that art and indie publishing doesn’t exist without support :) if you can swing a $12 chapbook I’m forever grateful! doing local drop off to try to still get people orders within the okanagan so that you can get them before Christmas :) any orders w shipping will be mailed ASAP once the Canada Post workers can get their bread.

ilysm :) thank you for supporting a tiny indie press. it means everything to me!!!

xo, clare

12/05/2024

PROUDEST RELEASE OF MY LIFE:
Day Song, a long poem, by the great Sharon Thesen

In quintessential Sharon Thesen fashion, Day Song is at once both grounded and existential, both concrete and metaphysical, both cheeky and referential. Sifting through memory and grief after the experience of a wildfire evacuation, Day Song poses the questions: how does art withstand catastrophe? How does remembrance hold hands with loss? - me

Sharon is one of my poet idols. Seriously, a dream come true for me. Feeling incredibly grateful.

copies are $12 :) local drop off available while we wait for the Canada Post strike to be resolved…other orders will ship as soon as I can!

11/26/2024

BROKE PRESS SUBS NOW OPEN BABAYYYYY!!

hit the link in bio for full submission guidelines. can’t to see what you send me this time around ###

-clare

11/22/2024

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coming soon!

11/19/2024

MY YOUNGER SIBLING IS THE POEM SLUT !! shop Quinn’s Christmas look book for the poem slt in your life 💅💅

for real tho order your merch sooner rather than later if it’s for a Christmas gift!!!!!! hehe love u

11/18/2024

Boone guarding the unfolded innards of the next broke press chapbook….coming soon!

was hoping to release this week, but might be delayed until the Canada Post workers get the $$ they deserve for their hard work :)

11/11/2024

Epigrams by Alden Wallace

if you somehow haven’t got your copy yet…..grab this lil guy asap ! link in bio or send me a dm :)

09/29/2024

broke press in the big city was a huge success!!!

thank you and for greeting me w open arms and reading your wonderful work! and to for the wonderful festival book fair! and to the lovely people who came and bought a chapbook or said hi! mwah!

09/28/2024

Robson Square ice rink 11-5!!!! Come buy fun books!!!!

09/26/2024

TOMORROW, Vancouver!

09/20/2024

tried something different with Alden’s chapbook and made a few copies in the print run with different colour ways from the rest. I think they look cool hehe!! order a copy at the link in bio and maybe you’ll get one of the unique limited copies xx

09/17/2024

Epigrams, by Alden Wallace, is out now! But a copy here!

EpigramsALDEN WALLACE This savoury li’l book is a watch out! Its fleeting observations accrete to form a geode of personal, philosophical, and poetic splendor. The world caught and reflected in its 305 facets is tender and blunt, motley and vast, awake and dreamy, and—ultimately—alive to al....

09/17/2024

Epigrams, by Alden Wallace, is available NOW!!

“This savoury li’l book is a watch out! Its fleeting observations accrete to form a geode of personal, philosophical, and poetic splendor. The world caught and reflected in its 305 facets is tender and blunt, motley and vast, awake and dreamy, and—ultimately—alive to all the moments.” - kevin mcpherson eckhoff

I love this little marvel of a chapbook. Alden writes with wit and candour and humour and it is all things good and all things broke press. Please buy a copy at the link in bio! $12! mwah 😘😘 !!

09/10/2024

I usually use a sharpie to mark on my ruler where I need put holes to bind the chapbooks…but was feeling a little whimsical today hehe

09/08/2024

printing proofs of the next one 👀

08/28/2024

oh you thought I wasn’t gonna make a weekend out of it??? think again!! broke press goes to the big city : book vendor edition!

come find me at the Festival Book Fair, in the Robson Street ice rink on Saturday, September 28, from 11-5!! come blow me a kiss and buy a chapbook and a Poem Slut t shirt!!!