Author Archives: Cameron Anstee

We made the trip to Peterborough to celebrate the first year of the Show and Tell Poetry Series, run by Elisha Rubacha and Justin Million. It was an intimate and compelling reading, performed in their backyard in downtown Peterborough. If you’re nearby, get out to one of the shows, and if you’re not, listen in.Continue reading “Show and Tell Poetry Series: Year One Reading”

There is a campaign to demonstrate to the CBC that there exists sufficient interest to allow Adrian Jean to republish the 1974 Graphic Standards Manual. There were similar campaigns in the last couple years for NASA and the NYC Transit Authority. I would buy one, and I hope it happens. Sign the pledge here if itContinue reading “CBC 1974 Graphic Standards Manual”

Another remembrance and tribute to Bill, this time from rob mclennan. Read it here. Hawkins’ exploits are as legendary as they are apocryphal, including tales of facilitating Jimi Hendrix’ recording of a Joni Mitchell performance at Le Hibou on his reel-to-reel (later recording Hawkins performing a new song on guitar at the after-party), a run-inContinue reading “rob mclennan on Bill Hawkins”

CBC Ottawa ran two pieces on Bill yesterday. Alan Neal had Bruce Cockburn and Sneezy Waters on All in a Day to discuss Bill. You can listen to that here. And the 6pm News on CBC ran a short story on Bill built around an earlier 2008 profile. The 2008 profile can be viewed here,Continue reading “Bill Hawkins Remembered on CBC”

William Hawkins died yesterday, July 4 2016, at age 76. He spent a short time in the hospital, and his passing was both a surprise and not a surprise–it was expected but not expected quite so soon. It hasn’t yet been 24 hours, but I wanted to try to write something. Apologies for the disorder ofContinue reading “William Hawkins (1940-2016)”

A post-script of sorts to the Contact Press post yesterday. Below you’ll find a small handful of Louis Dudek-related items from my shelves that overlap with Contact Press (1952-1967), and below those, a couple related little magazines. Related Little Magazines:

After acquiring a copy of Trio yesterday from Richard Coxford (formerly Bytown Bookshop, Ottawa) and George Ellenbogen’s Mcgill Poetry Series entry Winds of Unreason from Liam at Patrick McGahern’s (Ottawa), I decided to take stock of my small but growing Contact Press collection. Below you’ll find photos and some small notes on what I’ve currently got onContinue reading “Contact Press | Ongoing”

The fine people at Vallum saw fit to publish an 8-page review of The Collected Poems of William Hawkins in their latest issue (13:1, “Open Theme”). David Swartz wrote the review, and I was delighted to see how much time he spent thinking about Louis Riel, which is almost certainly the book of Bill’s thatContinue reading “Collected Hawkins | A Review!”

I’m really delighted to find myself included in Melanie Janisse Barlow’s “The Poets Series.” In her own words: The idea behind the Poets Series is to paint portraits of living poets and let each poet pick the next as a practice of praco-poesis. More simply put, I hoped to create a round robin of poets.Continue reading “The Poets Series, Melanie Janisse Barlow”

Two new minimalist poems of mine appeared in the world in the last 24 hours (Happy National Poetry Month!). The first, “Refrain”, was done up in a beautiful little single-poem chapbook by Michael e. Casteels through his Puddles of Sky Press (Kingston ON). It is available on its own for $2.00, but you will getContinue reading “Two New Little Poems”