It was very kind of Ben Ladouceur to ask me some questions about Apt. 9 and small press things, and to let me ramble on in my answers. Thanks Ben, and thanks Open Book for publishing it! The Same Aspirations Persist: An Interview with Cameron Anstee, editor of Apt. 9 Press “In 2016, three ofContinue reading “Interview: Open Book, Ben Ladouceur”
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CBBAG Ottawa: Book Arts
I was putting this link aside to go back to later, and realized that I should really just share it publicly. It looks like a wonderful project from The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild’s Ottawa Valley Chapter: CBBAG Ottawa: Books Arts
Farewell etaoin shrdlu
Farewell etaoin shrdlu, a short documentary from 1978 about the final day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times (July 2, 1978).
Cockerell Marbling
A short film from the 1970s, produced by the Bedfordshire Record Office, about paper marbling by Cockerell in England.
Year in Review | 2016
Following my habit of the previous two years, I’m going to post another round up of things literary and academic from the past year. I suspect these will be interesting documents for me someday, looking back, but don’t expect anyone else to read them. Ignore at will. On the academic front, I have just aboutContinue reading “Year in Review | 2016”
Ottawa Poems #1-28
In September, I very cleverly poured an entire coffee into my laptop. This complicated many much more important things, but it also interrupted my access to this blog thus stopping me from posting more of my erasures of Bill’s work. So, instead of starting again or posting them in smaller pieces, I am just goingContinue reading “Ottawa Poems #1-28”
Nelson Ball wins the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award!
Congratulations to Nelson Ball for winning the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award for Small Waterways, a book I am deeply proud to have published through Apt. 9 Press in 2015. Congratulations also to Marilyn Irwin and Lillian Nećakov for being shortlisted for the same award for their books published by Apt. 9! Congratulations also to KlaraContinue reading “Nelson Ball wins the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award!”
These Actual Lines #5-8
Four more from my erasures of William Hawkins’s Ottawa Poems. #1-4 here, with a short explanation of the project.
These Actual Lines: A Book of Erasure #1-4
While editing The Collected Poems of William Hawkins (2015), I began doing erasures of Bill’s poems. I focused on his 1966 collection Ottawa Poems and completed an erasure of each of the 28 poems in the book. I didn’t begin the work thinking of them as poems that I would share, instead thinking of it as aContinue reading “These Actual Lines: A Book of Erasure #1-4”
Horsebroke Press
Are you following the newly revived (or at least, now more publicly visible) Horsebroke Press, run by Jeff Blackman out of Ottawa? Really happy to see a new collection, The Desert and the Flood, from Amanda Besserer, a-long-time-ago co-editor and ally at In/Words (and classmate at Carleton) who always impressed and intimidated me. She publishedContinue reading “Horsebroke Press”
Cameron Anstee 