MENTOR'S CANON

poems about / for / after writers.

 

edited by Kemeny Babineau.

 

Fredericton, Broken Jaw Press, 2oo1. ISBN 1-896647-46-4.

 

6 x 9, 56 sheets white bond perfectbound in glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 5 pp (8, 1o8-111) printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to covers.

 

cover graphic by Bill Bissett.

48 contributors ID'd:

Gordon Michael Allen, George Amabile, Kemeny Babineau, Winona Baker, John Barlow, Gary Barwin, Derek Beaulieu, Bill Bissett, Joe Blades, George Bowering, Lisa Cavion, Kelly Cooper, Bernadette Dyer, Jennifer Footman, Richard Grove, Alsion Hancock, Lea Harper, Sheila Hyland, Gail Johnston, D.G.Jones, John Keats, Penn Kemp, Gary L.Langguth, John B.Lee, Bernice Lever, Tanis MacDonald, Seymour Mayne, Rob McLennan, Susan McMaster, Chad Norman, Renee Norman, Ted Plantos, Heather Pyrcz, D.C.Reid, Harold Rhenisch, Stan Rogal, Tom Schmidt, Jeff Seffinga, Leanne Smith, Breanda Spearing, Joanne Stryker, Don Summerhayes, Priscila Uppal, Steve Vernon, Michael Von Dreger, Alan Weatherley, Jeremy Whitehorn, Elana Wolff.

 

includes:

i) Requiem for Organ Music, by Susan McMaster (p.31; poem, 2o lines, dedicated "for bp Nichol")

ii) The Enigma of St. Aked, by Stan Rogal (p.32; poem, 25 lines, dedicated "for bp Nichol")

iii) "dream poem ⌗1", by Derek Beaulieu (p.38; concrete poem, annotated "thank you bpNichol.")

iv) now they found th wagon cat in human body, by Bill Bissett (p.39; poem, 19 lines, dedicated "for bp")

v) Margaret Avison, by George Bowering (p.72; poem, 38 lines, lines 1-2 referencing Avison's A Letter from Margaret Avison to & on Nichol)

Done