Polestar Book Publishers

Constellations celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of Canada's most interesting and prestigious small presses, Polestar Book Publishers, and includes work from every book of poetry published by Polestar, from the first (Luanne Armstrong's Castle Mountain, printed on a hand-cranked press in the University of Victoria's Creative Writing Department in 1981) to the most recent (Aislinn Hunter's 2001 collection, Into the Early Hours). Here is groundbreaking, prize-winning, bestselling work by Paulette Jiles, George Elliott Clarke, Gregory Scofield, David Zieroth, Kate Braid, John Mackenzie and others.