Canarium Books is a small press dedicated to publishing poetry. It is edited by Joshua Edwards, Robyn Schiff, Nick Twemlow, and Lynn Xu.

Before Canarium Books, there was The Canary, a magazine founded in 2002 and edited by Joshua Edwards, Anthony Robinson, and Nick Twemlow. In 2008 Canarium Books was formed with its first publication, Canarium 1. This anthology included poems by Ed Roberson, Arda Collins, Takashi Hiraide, Dunya Mikhail, and a dozen other poets. Canarium's single-author book series began the following year with Ish Klein's Union! and Tod Marshall's The Tangled Line. We’ve published 33 books to date. From 2008 until 2018 the press was sponsored and supported editorially by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at University of Michigan, and from 2019 until 2022 it was sponsored by Columbia University School of the Arts.

Booksellers and librarians can order books from Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org / spd@spdbooks.org / (800) 869-7553), Ingram, Baker & Taylor, or directly from us. We’re happy to provide copies for free or at a discount to educators, students, low-wage workers, librarians, reviewers, or anyone for whom money is tight.

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