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Doubleback Press Doubleback Press, an imprint of Sundress Publications, republishes out-of-print poetry & prose We publish books that demand an encore.

Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public domain from obscurity, few reprint books from small, independent presses that have folded during the twenty-first century and (often through no fault of their own) left new, exciting books to go out of print before their time. Thus, if you are the author of a book that has recently gone out of print because the press closed, w

e want to read it. If you are the former editor of a recently closed press with books you believe deserve to return to print, we want to read them. If we love them, we want to give the world another chance to love them, too.

Did you miss it?! Doubleback Review Issue 6:2 is here! This issue has got it all, so don't miss it!doublebackreview.com/...
19/10/2024

Did you miss it?! Doubleback Review Issue 6:2 is here! This issue has got it all, so don't miss it!

doublebackreview.com/issue-6-2-october-2024

Doubleback Books intern Katy Nguyen recently interviewed our latest author, Frances Boyle:Katy Nguyen: What was your tho...
09/10/2024

Doubleback Books intern Katy Nguyen recently interviewed our latest author, Frances Boyle:

Katy Nguyen: What was your thought process in putting together Light-carved Passages? Was there an overarching narrative or theme that you hoped to achieve?

Frances Boyle: Like many debut collections, Light-carved Passages began with me assembling many disparate poems I had written over a number of years, ranging from my first-ever published poem (not counting the high school and university newspaper publications which are rightly confined to history) to more recent ones. The work in putting the collection together, what poet Sue Goyette once called “writing the big poem”, was to find the themes, preoccupations and tics that resonated with each other, and to shape them into sections. In the end, the poems coalesced around a number of themes: family of origin, interiority and reflection, often in nature, created family, and responses to artwork in various media. These themes turned into five sections (which became six in the current version), though they aren’t hermetically sealed off from one another. The themes overlap and show through in shadows and echoes, in conversation with each other. When I realized that the image of car headlights carving a passage through the dark appeared in several poems, I knew I had my title. . .

Read the full interview at the Sundress Blog: https://sundressblog.com/2024/10/08/interview-with-frances-boyle-author-of-light-carved-passages/

Download your copy of Frances' book from the Doubleback Books website.

Frances Boyle’s Light-carved Passages was released by Doubleback Books earlier this month. Frances spoke with Doubleback Books editorial intern Katy Nguyen about family, reflection, art, and home. Light-carved Passages is available for free download at the Doubleback Books website.  Katy Nguyen: ...

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch of Frances Boyle's Light-carved Passages.September 4, 7:30 Eastern...
03/09/2024

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch of Frances Boyle's Light-carved Passages.

September 4, 7:30 Eastern/4:30 Pacific - 9:00 Eastern/6:00 Pacific

Readers: Frances Boyle, Wendy T Carlisle, Joy Ladin, and Manuela Williams

https://tinyurl.com/ywa7jc6x

It’s the final day to send us your manuscript!
31/08/2024

It’s the final day to send us your manuscript!

We're so excited about our new title: Light-carved Passages by Frances Boyle. Download your copy at https://doublebackbo...
29/08/2024

We're so excited about our new title: Light-carved Passages by Frances Boyle. Download your copy at https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch.

September 4, 7:30 Eastern/4:30 Pacific - 9:00 Eastern/6:00 Pacific

Readers: Frances Boyle, Wendy T Carlisle, Joy Ladin, and Manuela Williams

https://tinyurl.com/ywa7jc6x
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It's the final week to send us your manuscript!We believe that out of print books deserve an encore. Although other publ...
27/08/2024

It's the final week to send us your manuscript!

We believe that out of print books deserve an encore. Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public domain from obscurity, few reprint from small, independent presses that folded during the twenty-first century and left new, exciting literature lost before its time.

Doubleback Press is in the Sundress Publications family.
https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com/

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch of Frances Boyles' Light-carved Passages. We have a great lineup o...
26/08/2024

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch of Frances Boyles' Light-carved Passages. We have a great lineup of Doubleback Books readers for you!

Our submission deadline is coming up! Send us your work. And while you’re checking out the guidelines at our website, do...
23/08/2024

Our submission deadline is coming up! Send us your work. And while you’re checking out the guidelines at our website, download our latest title: Light-carved Passages by Frances Boyle.

Doubleback Press is in the Sundress Publications family.
https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com/

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch of Frances Boyle’s Light-carved Passages.September 4, 7:30 Eastern...
22/08/2024

Join us for an online reading to celebrate the launch of Frances Boyle’s Light-carved Passages.

September 4, 7:30 Eastern/4:30 Pacific - 9:00 Eastern/6:00 Pacific

Readers: Frances Boyle, Wendy T Carlisle, Joy Ladin, and Manuela Williams

https://tinyurl.com/ywa7jc6x

The poems in Light-carved Passages knot and weave, tracing connections through tangles of family histories, and paths along rivers. Shadows and absences permeate the collection as does an intensity of personal focus. Some sequences wind themselves into dark corners, while others feel around for a light switch on the wall, or glimpse a glow somewhere far ahead. There is vulnerability at the core of Light-carved Passages, and a quest to hill lacks by divining their true names, while acknowledging the implacable tenacity of the unnamable. But in travelling the “passages carved by light,” the poems carry a sense of movement, indeed of momentum, though the road dips and ever loops back upon itself. Light-carved Passages has been re-edited and re-released by Doubleback Books. It was previously published by the defunct BuschekBooks in 2014.

John Steffler, Canada’s former Poet Laureate, writes, “Light-carved Passages is a rich, rewarding collection of poems that range from lyrical snapshots of daily life to disarmingly honest and deeply potent ghost-walks into the heart’s dark, forbidden zones.”

Download your copy at https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com

Two more weeks to send us your manuscript! We can't wait to read them.We believe that out of print books deserve an enco...
20/08/2024

Two more weeks to send us your manuscript! We can't wait to read them.

We believe that out of print books deserve an encore. Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public domain from obscurity, few reprint from small, independent presses that folded during the twenty-first century and left new, exciting literature lost before its time.

Doubleback Press is in the Sundress Publications family.
https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com/

We are accepting manuscripts during our Open Reading Period now until the end of August. Send us your out of print books...
16/08/2024

We are accepting manuscripts during our Open Reading Period now until the end of August. Send us your out of print books. See full guidelines on our website: https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com

Three more weeks to send us your manuscript! We can't wait to read them.We believe that out of print books deserve an en...
12/08/2024

Three more weeks to send us your manuscript! We can't wait to read them.

We believe that out of print books deserve an encore. Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public domain from obscurity, few reprint from small, independent presses that folded during the twenty-first century and left new, exciting literature lost before its time.

Doubleback Press is in the Sundress Publications family.
https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com/

We are accepting manuscripts during our Open Reading Period now until the end of August. Send us your out of print books...
08/08/2024

We are accepting manuscripts during our Open Reading Period now until the end of August. Send us your out of print books.

See full guidelines on our website: https://doublebackbooks.wordpress.com

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We believe that out of print should not mean out of mind.

Although other publishers rescue works that have fallen into the public domain from obscurity, few reprint books from small, independent presses that have folded during the twenty-first century and (often through no fault of their own) left new, exciting books to go out of print before their time. Thus, if you are the author of a book that has recently gone out of print because the press closed, Doubleback Books wants to read it. If you are the former editor of a recently closed press with books you believe deserve to return to print, Doubleback Books wants to read them. If we love them, we want to give the world another chance to love them, too.

And if you’ve got pieces previously published at now-defunct literary journals, give them a chance at resurrection: send them to Double Review.