“The Association of Canadian Publishers represents Canadian-owned book publishers, with members from all provinces, and publishing sectors including literary, general trade, scholarly and education. In all its activities, the ACP aims to encourage the writing, publishing, distribution and promotion of Canadian books.” See its membership directory for publishers of poetry.

Canada
http://www.publishers.ca/

“Celebrating over thirty years of quality Canadian publishing, Beach Holme Publishing remains a press true to its literary roots and loyal to a mandate to promote indigenous creative writing to the wider Canadian public.”

The Beach Holme imprints Porcepic Books and Prospect Books are now distributed by the The Dundurn Group in Toronto. www.dundurn.com

Canada
http://www.beachholme.bc.ca/

“Since it was founded in 1969, Black Moss Press has built a national reputation for its contribution to Canadian literature. Quill and Quire has called Black Moss one of Canada’s most important literary presses.” Check out the Palm Poets collectors series.

“Black Moss continues its commitment to introduce poetry to people in unusual venues. Our authors have read on factory floors, in hockey rinks and before boxing matches.”

Windsor,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.blackmosspress.com/

“BookThug is an Independent publisher of chapbooks and trade books of poetry and poetically minded literature. We also publish BafterC, a journal of new writing.”

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.bookthug.ca/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=apollinaire&Category_Code=AA

Digitization and the Future of Canadian Publishing “Could the printed page give way to the digital screen? Will print-on-demand become a must-have technology for publishers large and small? Is it time to close the book on the book? BookNet Canada brings together publishers, thought-leaders, retailers, and technology vendors to address the impact of digitization on the future of the Canadian book trade.”

Date: Toronto, Canada -- 20 & 21 March, 2007
Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.booknetcanada.com/events/index.html

“Brick Books is a small literary press based in London, Ontario. The press was started by Stan Dragland and Don McKay in 1975…” Brick Books aims “to foster interesting, ambitious, and compelling work by Canadian poets, both new and established.”

London,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.brickbooks.ca/

“Broken Jaw Press is a Fredericton, New Brunswick, ‘Poets’ Corner of Canada,’ independent, one-person publishing house for poetry, fiction, drama, regional, artist, and general nonfiction titles. Broken Jaw Press was founded by, and continues to be operated by, poet/artist Joe Blades.”

Fredericton,  New Brunswick,  Canada
http://www.brokenjaw.com/

BuschekBooks publishes poetry, fiction and translations of the highest quality by established and first-time authors and translators.

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.buschekbooks.com/

“The Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing (CCSP) is a teaching, research, innovation and information centre based at Simon Fraser University Vancouver’s Harbour Centre building. Founded in 1987, the CCSP is a university/industry initiative dedicated to the development of publishing in Canada and internationally.”

Programs include the Master of Publishing (MPub)—“Canada’s premier training ground for professional publishing”, the Summer Publishing Workshops geared for publishing professionals and the Writing & Publishing Program geared more towards writers. Also, home to The Young Publishers Network, Thinkubator, “an online communications hub for the community surrounding the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing—students, faculty, guests, alumni and friends.”

Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/home.html

Canadian Poetry: An Electronic Resource is edited by D.M.R. Bentley. This site features a press, a journal, and a Canadian poetry resource directory among other archives.

“The Canadian Poetry Press was founded in 1986 for the purposes of publishing scholarly editions of early Canadian long poems. Since then the Press has expanded its mandate to include editions of the work of the Confederation poets and critical studies of Canadian poetry.”

“Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews is a refereed journal devoted to the study of poetry from all periods in Canada. It is published twice yearly, in the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter…. Its first issue was published in 1977.”

Explore also Canadian Poets:An Annotated List of Resources on the Web, featuring Notable Contemporary Canadian Poets, Confederation Poets, Journals and Literary Databases, compiled and reviewed by Julia C. Obert.

University of Western Ontario, London,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/

p..At last, “a solid Ottawa-based literary publisher actively seeking the work of writers around town to help develop and foster the writing the way Arsenal Pulp [did] in Vancouver, Turnstone Press in Winnipeg and Vehicule Press in Montreal.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.chaudierebooks.com/

“Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965.”

“From 1997-2002 the Coach House embarked on an ambitious and unprecedented project: to put the contents of our frontlist books online for free. Led by the then Coach House Web Editor and web developer extraordinaire Damian Lopes, we amassed an impressive collection of over 70 unique online books, representing every title we published over that span.”

Toronto, ON,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.chbooks.com/

“Based in Regina, Canada, Coteau Books is a literary book publisher which presents quality Canadian writing to the world market. Our publishing program includes fiction, poetry, drama, and creative non-fiction, as well as a rapidly-growing list of quality children’s and teen fiction.”

See events page and the running feature this week in herstory (from the Saskatoon Women’s Calendar Collective).

Regina,  Saskatchewan,  Canada
http://www.coteaubooks.com/

“Cyclops Press is a media arts, web, and film project, and an independent, artist-run, literary and multimedia arts publisher. It was founded in 1993 by Clive Holden and Alissa York. We make such diverse creations as poetry books and CDs, novellas, feature films, artist’s websites, multi-channel installations and large scale interdisciplinary art projects.”

See MP3 archive and the Trains of Winnipeg film poems.

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.cyclopspress.com/

“Entertainment. Culture. Writing.” ECW strives “for a uniform standard of excellence: the best writing; the most exciting, controversial, and insightful takes on the hottest subject matter; groundbreaking design and high production values”

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.ecwpress.com/

“Friday Circle publishes works by faculty, students, and alumni of the University of Ottawa’s Creative Writing Program.”

See Calls for Submissions. (Next closing date November 15, 2007 for An Anthology of Word Sonnets)

University of Ottawa, Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.fridaycircle.uottawa.ca/

“Frog Hollow Press is dedicated to printing and publishing the work of Canadian writers in letterpressed limited editions.”

Victoria,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.froghollowpress.com/

“Gaspereau Press plays an important role publishing contemporary literature by both emerging and established Canadian authors, and as one of the few Canadian publishers that continue to print and bind their own books in-house.” This press has a “commitment to making books that reinstate the importance of the book as a physical object, reuniting publishing and the book arts.”

Kentville,  Nova Scotia,  Canada
http://www.gaspereau.com/

“Goose Lane Editions is one of Canada’s freshest and most innovative publishers. We are known for both the quality of our authors and for the high level of our book design and production.”

Fredericton,  New Brunswick,  Canada
http://www.gooselane.com/gle/gle.htm

Greenboathouse Books is a small press publishing handmade chapbooks by emerging & established writers from across Canada.

Vernon and Victoria,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.greenboathouse.com/

“Harbour Publishing is an award-winning independent book publisher owned and operated by Howard and Mary White… The company was established in 1974 and is based on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.”

Harbour Publishing also distributes the poetry books of Nightwood Editions.

Madeira Park,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.harbourpublishing.com/index.php

“The home of Poetry and Self-Publishing Opportunities.” Hidden Brook Press is both a trade publisher and a contract publisher.

Also home of the Canadian Poet Registry with over 400 poets listed, and of a listing of Canadian Poetry and Writers Organizations.

Brighton,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/

“House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey.” Anansi “specializes in finding and developing Canada’s great new writers of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction…”

Canada
http://www.anansi.ca/

“Insomniac was founded in 1992, and since that time, it has evolved from a small press that publishes poetry chapbooks, to a medium-size independent press that publishes eye-catching non-fiction titles as well as the great fiction and poetry for which it has become known.”

Events

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.insomniacpress.com

“Kegedonce Press is a Native owned and operated company based at Neyaashiinigmiing, on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. We are committed to our guiding vision of publishing and promoting works of the Indigenous writers of Turtle Island and supporting the enterprise of Indigenous artists, graphic illustrators, designers, editors, printers and others in related fields….”

“Kegedonce Press is one of only three established Aboriginal publishers in Canada, one of only two that publishes Aboriginal writers as general operations (the other specializes in Metis writing). Narrowing the field further, Kegedonce Press is the only Aboriginal publishing company in Ontario, the only Aboriginal publisher committed to publishing poetry and the only one with a commitment and experience in developing international markets.”

Neyaashiinigmiing or Georgetown,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.kegedonce.com/

“… Mansfield Press has become one of the best places to find groundbreaking and challenging work. With a strong focus on poetry, Mansfield Press is dedicated to nurturing a new generation of writers and introducing them to the world.”

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.mansfieldpress.net/

“Celebrating 100 years of great books, McClelland & Stewart originated in Toronto, Ontario, the heart of Canadian publishing, in the spring of 1906.”

McClelland & Stewart now has web site just for poetry, with excerpts including “authors’ introductions to their featured poems”.

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.mcclelland.com/poetry/index.html

New Star Books in Vancouver, BC, publishes a wide range of books including poetry books. Check out their catalogue and events page.

Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://newstarbooks.com/

“Nightwood Editions is committed to publishing and promoting the best new poetry and fiction by writers across Canada.”

Nightwood Editions traces its origins to blewointment press founded in 1963 by bill bissett. Read A Brief History.

Madeira Park,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/

“OneZeroZero was conceived in 1999 as a Coach House Books Millennium Project funded by the Canada Council. It continued in 2002 with assistance from the Federal Department of Industry’s Canada’s Digital Collections. Subsequently it was taken under the wing of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art and will continue to grow.”

“OZZ is an attempt to chart the history of English Canadian small press publishing between 1945 and the present. Its aim is to provide students of Canadian literature with a clear path through the increasingly dense thickets of modern and postmodern writing (mostly poetry) since the end of World War II. It will also essay a sort of cartography of the English Canadian small press, to provide an uncomplicated navigation tool for educators, students and the merely curious through the crowded land- and sea-scapes of unofficial cultural production and non-corporate publishing in English Canada.”

Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art,  Canada
http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/index.html