Anstruther Press

Manifesto Series #1
40 Copies - Sold Out
ISBN 978-0-9938397-6-4


M. Travis Lane is the author of fifteen books of poetry, the most recent of which is Crossover (Cormorant Press, 2015). Her work has received numerous awards including the Alden Nowlan Award, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Bliss Carman Award, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. 

Manifesto Series #3
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ISBN 978-0-9951501-6-4

Thomas Hodd has been reviewing Canadian poetry for nearly 20 years. He is an Associate Professor of Atlantic and Canadian literature at Université de Moncton. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Literary Review of Canada, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The Journal of Canadian Poetry, among others.
 

Manifesto Series #4
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ISBN 978-1-988699-17-2

John Nyman's debut collection of poetry, Players, was published with Palimpsest Press in 2016 and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. John is currently completing a PhD at Western University's Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism with a research focus on Jacques Derrida's "writing under erasure" and erasure poetry.
 

Manifesto Series #5
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ISBN 978-1-988699-27-1

John Barton’s recent publications include Polari, Reframing Paul Cadmus, and The Malahat Review at 50. Frog Hollow will publish Windsock, his eighth chapbook of poems, in 2018 as part of its Dis/Ability Series. Palimpsest his first book of prose, We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos, in 2019. He lives in Victoria.

Read an excerpt of Visible But Not Seen in The Walrus

Manifesto Series #6
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ISBN 978-1-988699-53-0

RM Vaughan is a Canadian writer and video artist living in Montreal. Vaughan's books include the poetry collections A Selection of Dazzling Scarves, Invisible to Predators, Ruined Stars, Troubled, and Ve1Xe. His novels A Quilted Heart and Spells were met with critical acclaim, and he is the author of many theatre works, including the recently published One Year After, as well as the plays Camera, Woman and The Monster Trilogy. A selected essays, entitled Compared to Hitler, was released in 2013 and his non-fiction book Bright Eyed: Insomnia and its Cultures was a bestseller in Canada and in translation in South Korea. Vaughan's essays, poems, fiction and drama are collected in over 60 anthologies and art catalogues. Vaughan also contributes cultural commentary and art reviews for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines. His video collaborations play in festivals and galleries around the world, and are included in the collections of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His latest video collaboration, "House Dress" recently toured Mexico as part of retrospective of queer video works. Vaughan was born in Saint John and raised in St. Martins and Quispamsis. He holds an MA from the University of New Brunswick, where he is currently Writer-in-Residence.

Manifesto Series #7
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ISBN 978-1-988699-71-4

Gregory Betts is the author of two monographs on Canadian avant-gardism, including the forthcoming Finding Nothing: Vancouver Avant-garde Writing, 1959-1975 (University of Toronto Press) and editor of seven volumes of Canadian experimental writing. He is the President of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English and a Professor at Brock University. His most recent book of poetry is Sweet Forme (Apothecary Archive, 2020), a collection of sonic translations of Shakespeare’s sonnets. His next book is Foundry (Redfoxpress, Ireland, in press), a collection of visual poems that pay homage to the beauty of brokenness.

Manifesto Series #8
50 Copies
ISBN 978-1-988699-75-2

Dani Spinosa is a poet of digital and print media, a precariously employed professor, a devoted cat step-mom, and flavoured coffee apologist. She is a founding co-editor of the feminist micropress Gap Riot and the managing editor of the Electronic Literature Directory. Her work has been funded several times by government arts funding agencies like the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, even though that work often contains anti-government sentiment, and sometimes contains pornography. She has published several chapbooks of poetry, several more peer- reviewed journal articles on poetry, one long scholarly book, and one pink poetry book. This is her first manifesto. She can be found online at www.genericpronoun.com and in person as a settler in Tkaronto/Toronto.

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Manifesto Series #9
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ISBN 978-1-998774-12-8

Yusra Usmani is a writer and performer with an emphasis on religious and alchemic symbolism. Some relevant publications include The Cattle with Bottlecap Press and the upcoming Al-Hashashin with The Blasted Tree.

Manifesto Series #10
ISBN 978-1-998774-20-3
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Robert Colman is a Newmarket, Ontario-based poet, essayist, and critic. His work has appeared in literary magazines in Canada and internationally, and his essay “Every Saturday” was published in The Best Canadian Essays 2024 (Biblioasis). Colman’s fourth full-length collection of poems, Ghost Work, is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press.

Manifesto Series 11
ISBN - 978-1-998774-31-9
50 Copies

Jay MillAr is the author of several collections of poetry, including Mycological Studies, the small blue, esp: accumulation sonnets, Other Poems and Timely Irreverence. His most recent book is I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of many privately published editions, including Lack Lyrics, which tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Jay is the co-publisher at Book*hug Press, an independent award-winning publishing house; he also curates Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy.

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