COMMUNIQUÉ books is the publishing imprint of the Centre for Contemporary Writing at Dalhousie University, specializing in diverse literary materials. Each book is handmade and printed in a limited edition of 50 copies. Edited and designed by Bart Vautour and Eric Schmaltz.
Publications
A new chapbook of prose poems by poet and scholar Asha Jeffers.
Asha Jeffers is a scholar and creative writer from Toronto who lives and works in Halifax. Her chapbook of travel poems Mundane, Majestic was published by Anstruther Press in 2021. Her poem “Unpassing” was published as a pamphlet by Annick MacAskill’s Opaat Press in 2025. Her creative writing appears in the The Angle and The Puritan. Her poetry was selected for the Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation’s Poetry in Motion public poetry project in 2020. In her academic life, she is the author of Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States and associate professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University.
A new chapbook of visual poems by poet Benjamin Bush Anderson.
Benjamin Bush Anderson is a poet and novelist born in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia. In 2019 he won the Gabriel Safdie Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Vallum Poetry Award in 2022. His writing is featured or forthcoming in Second Factory, The Antigonish Review, Fence, and elsewhere. In 2023, Benjamin graduated with Great Distinction from Concordia University's Honours in English & Creative Writing program. His research and writing—funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and SSHRC—centers Maritime dialects, ecological co-authorship, and intermedia poetry. He is currently at work on a collection of poems and on a novel while pursuing an MA in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.
A new chapbook of poetry and collage by poet Dani Spinosa.
Dani Spinosa is a poet, scholar, educator, writer, and a computer programmer. She is sometimes an adjunct professor, a software developer, a digital and creative project manager, a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, President of Canthius, the Managing Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and a member of the editorial collective for the Electronic Literature Collection Volume 5. She is the author of two books of poetry: Whispering Gallery (Assembly Press, 2026) and OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) and one scholarly book: Anarchists in the Academy (U of Alberta Press, 2018). She has published several chapbooks of poetry and several more peer-reviewed journal articles on poetry and technology. She lives in beautiful Wasaga Beach, Ontario with one beautiful man, two lovely cats, and one very silly dog.
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