We're delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Losing Touch, by Magda Kapa - her second book with Phoenicia. It's available for pre-ordering now, directly from the publisher, and should begin shipping in early August, when it will also become available via Amazon in various countries.

In Losing Touch we find a series of ten-line poems, written between March 2020 and the end of February 2021. They are about living during the pandemic, but they are not about the pandemic in a descriptive or overt sense. By regularly condensing her thoughts and emotions while also chronicling the passage of seasons and her own individual life, Magda Kapa has expressed with poignancy, sensitivity, and yes, even humor, what so many of us have experienced during this time. The poets George Szirtes and Mariadonata Villa have both praised this book; please visit the web page to read their comments, find a full description,  and ordering information.

This beautiful edition is printed on high-quality cream paper, and includes twelve drawings by Elizabeth Adams, most of which were created during the same months when Magda's poems were written.

The Creative Process: Gildas Berthelot, Sculptor
Le processus créatif : Gildas Berthelot, sculpteur
by/par Jonathan Sa'adah
black & white photographs, bilingual text (French / English)
photographies noir et blanc, texte bilingue (français / anglais)

In September, in conjunction with their joint exhibition in Montreal, Phoenicia will release this book of photographs by Jonathan Sa'adah, capturing the creative process of Gildas Berthelot. The French-born sculptor, who lives in Montreal and works in wood, makes large pieces of fantastic shape that blur the boundaries between furniture and sculpture. His process is intense, physically demanding, and astounding, as planks of hardwood are transformed into organic forms. The bilingual book includes two interviews, one with the photographer and one with the sculptor, about this project and their approach to their work. A pre-order offer will be announced in late summer. ​ We invite your inquiries about both the book and the possibility of other exhibitions. Publication launch and vernissage will be in September 2019.
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Phoenicia publiera, en septembre, conjointement avec leur exposition conjointe à Montréal, ce livre de photographies de Jonathan Sa'adah, documentant le processus créatif de Gildas Berthelot. Le sculpteur français, qui vit à Montréal et travaille le bois, fabrique de grandes pièces aux formes fantastiques qui brouillent les frontières entre mobilier et sculpture. Son processus est intense, physiquement exigeant et époustouflant, alors que les planches de bois dur se transforment en formes organiques. Le livre bilingue comprend deux interviews, une avec le photographe et une avec le sculpteur, sur ce projet et leur approche du travail. Une offre de pré-commande sera annoncée à la fin de l'été. Nous vous invitons à nous contacter à propos du livre et de la possibilité d’autres expositions. Le lancement de la publication et le vernissage auront lieu en septembre 2019.

We were delighted to learn that The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, 2018) was shortlisted for the prestigious Rubery Book Award (UK) in the poetry category. Congratulations, Luisa!

The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis
Poems by Luisa A. Igloria

Now available for pre-order at a special price through March 20, 2018.

"Reading Luisa A. Igloria’s poems is like opening doors within doors within doors. These doors give access to the mind, the imagination, into lush and lyric worlds. ...Poem after poem reveals the Buddha. S/he is sneaky and coy. S/he peeks behind every stanza, meditating at every end-stopped line, her robes overflowing in every layer of images. And in the end, after we’ve taken in every poem, s/he finds a place in the center of us." -- from the foreword by Ira Sukrungruang, author of  Southside Buddhist, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, and the forthcoming Buddha's Dog and other meditations, and professor at the University of South Florida.

For full information and to place a pre-order, please click the image or links, and sign up for our newsletter to be eligible for one of two free copies to be given away in March.

(Cover art by Elizabeth Adams)

Phoenicia Publishing is delighted to announce that a new book of poems by Luisa A. Igloria, The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis, will be published in March 2018. This is a collection of 53 "Buddha poems" that Luisa wrote in early 2016, many of which have appeared online at Via Negativa, where she has posted a new poem every day since November 2010.

The author says these poems began from the premise that "if the Buddha in me can greet the Buddha in you," then the aspiration to transcendence is a daily work in progress. She writes about the constant seesaw between our appetite for worldly things and the hunger for deeper permanence; about our human imperfections and foibles; and our longing to be touched by grace, if not love and absolution, in this lifetime.

There will be a pre-order period a month before publication, with discounted pricing and special offers for Phoenicia newsletter subscribers, so please be sure to sign up if you aren't already on our mailing list!