The Munro Beattie Lecture at Carleton University is coming up. Lynn Coady will be delivering a talk titled “On Storytelling and Discomfort.” The Munro Beattie is a great annual public lecture well worth your support. Thursday October 23, 7pm. Kailish Mital Theatre.
Author Archives: Cameron Anstee
Five
My little Apt. 9 Press is publishing a perfect bound book for the first time. Five is being produced to celebrate the October reading tour that I’m taking part in with jesslyn delia smith, Rachael Simpson, Jeff Blackman, and Justin Million. The first bound copies arrived yesterday afternoon from Coach House Printing for final approval.Continue reading “Five”
Make Contact: Circulating Small and Micro Press Poetry in Canada
Congress 2015 is being hosted at the University of Ottawa. Colin Martin (University of Calgary) and I wrote a CFP for a member-organized session for ACCUTE that has been accepted. Full details below (pdf here), and further member-organized session CFPs available here. Send us your stuff!
An Accord of Poets
Going on a poetry reading tour with some of my favourite people (Jeff Blackman, jesslyn delia smith, Rachael Simpson, and Justin Million). We’re doing Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Peterborough From October 11-15. All the details are here. Hope to see you out!
Some Ottawa Anthologies
This post collects bibliographic information and photographs of covers for a number of anthologies that, in one way or another, can be classed as Ottawa anthologies of poetry and fiction. Choices were necessary of course. I have not included literary journals (with a single exception), nor have I included chapbook anthologies. These are excellent andContinue reading “Some Ottawa Anthologies”
Kemeny Babineau | “A Poem of Days”
I received a package in the mail from poet, bookseller, and publisher of Laurel Reed Books Kemeny Babineau yesterday. It contained a new publication of his, A Poem of Days, “a cycle of journal entries” written between January 7 2013 and January 15 2014. It is a lovely production, with a handstamped cover in theContinue reading “Kemeny Babineau | “A Poem of Days””
Roman Feuilleton | Michèle Provost
I am delighted to be taking part in Michèle Provost’s upcoming show, Roman Feuilleton, a “promotional campaign for a series of literary works” based on “a surrealist text which Provost herself has composed out of lines from four of Québec’s literary landmarks; Anne Hébert’s Kamouraska, Michel Tremblay’s La grosse femme d’à côté est enceinte, Réjean Ducharme’sContinue reading “Roman Feuilleton | Michèle Provost”
William Hawkins Bibliography | Happy Birthday, Bill!
Happy Birthday, William Hawkins! 74 years old today! In honour, I am attaching a bibliography that I have been compiling gradually over the last few years. It expands on the descriptive bibliography published through Apt. 9 Press a few years ago. This includes a number of individual items not included in that first effort, as wellContinue reading “William Hawkins Bibliography | Happy Birthday, Bill!”
Some Further [1960s & 1970s] Coach House
Some further titles not included on last week’s list. Coleman, Victor. Light Verse. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1969. Gist, T. Kenneth. Night. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972. Nations, Opal L. Stabbed to Death with Artificial Respiration. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1977. Ondaatje, Michael. Rat Jelly. Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973. Webb,Continue reading “Some Further [1960s & 1970s] Coach House”
Some [1960s & 1970s] Coach House
Photos of a selection of visually-interesting Coach House items from the first decade or so of the life of the press that I am lucky enough to have copies of, in alphabetical order. Some history of the renowned press can be found here, including a video tour of the space with Stan Bevington. There is littleContinue reading “Some [1960s & 1970s] Coach House”
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