BOOKS IN CANADA vol.32 nr.9

edited by Olga Stein.

 

Toronto, Canadian Review Of Books Limited, december 2oo3.

 

1o-3/4 x 14-1/16, 12 sheets grey newsprint foldd to 48 pp & stapled twice into white bond wrappers with 6-1/4 x 4-/16 perforated white light card leaf between 6th & 7th leaves, all printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to font cover & olive addition to return card rectos.

 

cover photo by Elliott Landy.

78 contributors ID'd:

Ted Aislin, Salvatore Ala, Byron Ayanoglu, John Ayre, Ken Babstock, Mike Brnes, Malcom David Batty, Earle Birney, Heather Birrell, Stephanie Bolster, Tim Bowling, Avi Boxer, Jacques Brault, Douglas Brown, Charles Bruce, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Jeff Bursey, Pierre Chatillon, Danielles Chaub, Brian Charles Clark, Fred Cogswell, David Colterjohn, Pino Coluccio, Geoffrey Cook, Mary Cross, Mary Dalton, Bathazar Klossowski De Rola, Margaret Dragu, Paul Dutton, Harold Enrico, Mario Ettlinger, Brian Fawcett, George Fetherling, Erling Friis-Baastad, Otis Galen, Keith Garebian, Andre Gide, Denise Grant, Michael Greenstein, Michael Hanlon, Lawren Harris, Richard Harvor, Ian Higgins, Benjamin Ivry, A.Y.Jackson, Gabor Jurina, Jon Kalina, Ibolya Kaslik, Michael Kinsella, W.P.Kinsella, Naomi Klein, Steve Laird, Elliott Landy, Rachel Leclerc, Pierre Longtin, Jeremy Lott, Des McNally, Eric Miller, Robert Moore, Al Moritz, Barbara Curry Mulcahy, bpNichol, Gwen Novak, Peter O'Brien, Christopher Ondaatje, P.K.Page, Ethan Paquin, Medrie Purdham, Rhys Savarin, Sarah Sheard, David Solway, Olga Stein, Andrew Steinmetz, Cynthia Sugars, Clara Thomas, Rob Thomas, Nancy Wigstein, Peter Yan.

 

Nichol inclusions:

i) THE DANCER (graphic)

ii) LONELY FRED the cowboy hero [six] (comic)

 

also includes:

iii) Getting it Right and Wrong with bpNichol (pp.2o-22; prose review of Nichol's COMiCS with many Nichol quotes from:

--1. Interview: Raoul Duguay (Nichol interviewed by Duguay, as from Meanwhile; Dutton errs by beginning the quote with "the" instead of "my arrogance")

--2. Interviews: Ken Norris (Nichol interviewed by Norris, as from Meanwhile

--3. Introduction to The Last Blew Ointment Anthology Volume 2

--4. Interview: Fred Gaysek (Nichol interviewed by Gaysek, as from Meanwhile

--5. STATEMENT

--6. "OH MY GAWD!! It's the" (most of the primary speech balloon)

--7. THE LIVES + LOVES OF CAPTAIN GEORGE (quote from the "designed by bpNichol" panel))

Done