Author Archives: Cameron Anstee

Alan Neal and All in a Day were kind enough to speak to Bill and to me last week about The Collected Poems. You can listen to audio of Bill reading a few poems and Alan interviewing Bill here. Photos and the Chaudiere report from the launch here. Thanks to all that were able to makeContinue reading “Hawkins on CBC”

I am giving a paper as part of ACCUTE at Congress this coming weekend: “‘Ottawa, / you know nothing / of poems’: William Hawkins and the Small Press in Ottawa.” The paper grew out of editing The Collected Poems of William Hawkins. It looks a bit more broadly at how Hawkins’s life and work make clear some ofContinue reading “Updates (Congress, Reading, Publication)”

Now available from Apt. 9 Press: the blue, blue there by Marilyn Irwin and The Lake Contains an Emergency Room by Lillian Nećakov!

Look what you can purchase online now, via All Lit Up (the online bookstore run by the Literary Press Group).

The Collected Poems of William Hawkins has arrived! It is a thing of beauty. The art by Chris Wells on the cover, the design and typesetting by Christine McNair, the production values from Chaudiere, the blurbs from Bruce Cockburn, Roy MacSkimming, and Nelson Ball, and of course, most importantly, Bill’s poems! It is overwhelming. Too manyContinue reading “The Collected Poems of William Hawkins”

AB Series details here.

I recently had a paper published in Amodern Issue 4: The Poetry Series. I am very proud to be in the journal alongside such intelligent people (Marjorie Perloff, Dean Irvine, Gregory Betts, and on and on). My paper, “Setting Widespread Precedent: The Canada Council for the Arts and the Funding of Poetry Readings in Canada (1957-1977)” is an historical lookContinue reading “Updates: Readings and Publications”

Design by Christine McNair, cover painting by Christopher Wells (whose artwork has illustrated Hawkins’s books going back to 1964; Wells also collaborated on the poster poems in 1962). Introduction: “Living now in Ottawa: William Hawkins at the Margins” Chaudiere Books Interview about the editing of the book.

The Collected Poems of William Hawkins is moving closer and closer to crossing the threshold from “forthcoming” to “published.” You can now read an interview with me, conducted by co-publisher of Chaudiere Books rob mclennan, over at the Chaudiere Books Blog.

As part of the promotion for our upcoming Kingston reading, four of the five passengers of the Accord will be appearing on “Finding a Voice,” Bruce Kauffman’s radio show on CFRC. You can find the full details here. We’re up this coming Friday afternoon, 5:00-6:00pm. Tune in at 4:00pm to hear the host of theContinue reading “Kingston Radio Promo”