Gaspereau Press in the Wild West

Gaspereau Press authors are almost always out and about somewhere, but recently they've been making their presence particularly known in Saskatchewan.

The Saskatoon Public Library Board announced that Anne Simpson will be their 2009-2010 Writer in Residence. Anne will be spending the year in Saskatoon, splitting her time between her own writing and her work for the library. Anne usually calls Antigonish, Nova Scotia, home and that's where she set her recent collection of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry & Otherness. For more information about Anne's residency, read about it at the Saskatoon Public Library's website.

Carmine Starnino was in Saskatoon last week for a reading at the local McNally Robinson. He read from his new collection of poetry, This Way Out. Photos of the evening by Jennifer Varkonyi are posted below.




Two Gaspereau Press authors will be participating Moosejaw's Festival of Words this weekend: John Terpstra and Thomas Wharton. You can find out about their readings on the festival schedule. Information about Thomas Wharton's The Logogryph is on our website, where you can also find information about John Terpstra's forthcoming title, Skin Boat: Acts of faith and other navigations.

Anne Simpson in Burlington

Anne Simpson was in Burlington earlier this month for A Different Drummer's Inaugural Spring Poetry Brunch at the Burlington Golf & Country Club. Anne read her new collection of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry & Otherness.

Gaspereau Press Spring Poetry Tra-la

National Poetry Month is in full swing and last week, Carmine Starnino, Anne Simpson and Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen brought a little taste of Gaspereau Press to Toronto. All three were on hand to read from their new collections at Ben McNally Books.

The First Day of Spring

The first day of spring! And we’re getting close to the release dates for some of our spring 2009 titles. Most of the books are now progressing through the production line, some on press, some in sheets, some sewn, some bound. This time of year it’s hard to find a flat surface in the printshop that isn’t piled up with paper which is in some state of becoming a book. This week, as well as tidying up the last few details on the text of Anne Simpson’s essay collection The Marram Grass, I also used the Vandercook 219 letterpress in my office to print a few book jackets for spring titles and an invitation to our upcoming Spring Poetry Tra-la at Ben McNally Books in Toronto. That is, when I wasn’t busy crushing cupcakes. —AS