Founded in 2001, Frog Hollow Press
strives to produce books that:
- enhance the relationship between the reader and the author's work
- possess a subtle beauty in terms of the materials used and the style of typesetting
- are as affordable as possible given that we only publish limited editions which are not elegible
for provincial or federal grants and given that
we use high-quality text & cover papers and bookcloths.
Who we are:
Caryl Wyse Peters, Publisher
(from Montreal) moved to Victoria in 1995
and began pursuing an interest in printmaking, bookbinding and letterpress printing. In June 2000 she participated in an intensive letterpress course at Barbarian Press under Jan and Crispin Elsted, bought a Vandercook, and in early 2001 founded Frog Hollow Press.
Shane Neilson, Editor, 2005—
is a young poet from New Brunswick who has a keen sense of Canadian poetry. His writing has been published widely in poetry and medical journals and his book reviews and critical essays have appeared in the Globe and Mail, Books in Canada, CNQ, and other literary publications. The author of two poetry chapbooks, The Beaten- Down Elegies and Seized, and a memoir, Call Me Doctor (Pottersfield Press, 2006).
Trained as an MD at Dartmouth, Shane practices family medicine in
Erin, Ontario. He has used his medical background as the basis for his essay in Alden Nowlan & Illness which was released by Frog Hollow in March 2005, prior to his taking over as Editor of the Press. As Editor, Shane hopes to establish a taste that, through its discriminatory and rigourous sense, attracts this country's best young poets to the Press.
Tom Henihan, Editor, 2002—2005
was born in Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1981. He served as Poetry Editor for Frog Hollow Press from late 2002-early 2005. His books of poetry include Between the Streets (1992),
A Mortar of Seeds (1998), Almost Forgotten... (2002), and A Further Exile (2002).
Tom currently resides in Saint John's, Newfoundland.