Penumbra Press

The Northern Publisher

Art, graphics, and photographs throughout this site can also be found in Penumbra Press books. Move the cursor over any image to discover the artist and book.

Since 1979, Penumbra Press books have been garnering praise for their elegance. A small fine-art and literary publishing house, Penumbra has carved its niche with Northern and Native literatures, as well as children's literature, poetry, belles lettres, translations of Scandinavian literature, history, mythology, and art books. In recent years, we've added biographies and memoirs to the ensemble.

The prestigious George Wittenborn Memorial Award, bestowed by the Art Libraries Society of North America, has recognized Penumbra Press for its "ongoing commitment to the publishing of source documents in Canadian art history, together with excellence of design."

"The North has always struck me as a state conferred upon the mind by the imagination rather than a geographical location verified by a compass or astrolabe. It is a state of mind subsumed by a directional pull more universal than any instrument can measure, like the allure Mary Shelley's monster experiences when, trekking across the frozen northland, he metabolized into fiery resolve to create a new light for surviving and surpassing the old darkness of humanity."

John Flood

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PO Box 940, Manotick, Ontario, Canada, K4M 1A8
Phone (613) 692-5590; Fax (613) 692-5589
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Original web-creation by Daniel McKay and Stacey Munro, August 2002