Monday, June 23, 2025

ABOUT SKY OF INK PRESS


Montreal's Sky of Ink Press was founded in 2007 with the express purpose of featuring talented poets in finely crafted chapbooks. It has also published a couple of visual art books. Brian Campbell is editor and publisher.

Sky of Ink chapbooks are printed on high-quality paper with card-stock or hard covers.

Here are the chapbooks published so far. Click on them for quick access to info., cover image and a sample poem of each book.

Karen Ocaña: Red Bolero: $20
Ethel Meilleur: Tinkle Little Tootie: $15
Zav Levinson, Reverb: $15
Ethel Meilleur, Funny Girl: $15
Zav Levinson, Trelliswork: $15
Brian Campbell, A Private Collection: $25
Raphael Bendahan, Sit Up: $15
Jocelyne Dubois, Hot Summer Night: $15
Nina Bruck, Still Light at Five O'Clock: $15

And here, the art books:

Jocelyne Dubois, Doodling Moods: $30
Brian Campbell, Remnants of Autumn (photos + 2 poems): $35

Prices in CA for Canadian orders or US for international orders, including postage

The press does not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

To order, contact: beedeecee@videotron.ca

Sunday, June 22, 2025

 





Published:
1st edition, 100 copies: June 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7782741-3-8
Price: $20CDN/US including shipping
41 pages
Standard paper, cardstock cover
Status: In Print

Ocaña's poems are musical, colourful, sensorial, alive with chatter, travel, flirtation, and "dreaming in broad daylight." World and personal history intertwine in a consciousness attuned to the impermanence of all things, intellectual and joyful all at once. 
— Jay Ritchie, author of Listening in Many Publics


Red Bolero is a brilliant, luminous collection of poems that explores memory, love, migration, sensuality, and self discovery through the textures of daily life. Vivid imagery and musical phrasing transform the ordinary into moments of startling beauty—whether it's a red dress in the breeze or grey hair glinting in the light. From Billie Holiday's haunting voice to the riffs of Sam Rivers, music flows through these pages, giving shape to longing, improvisation, and memory. 
— Gloria Macher, international award-winning novelist and poet