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Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English

Book & Publishing History

Small, Private & Literary Presses

Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination. Highlights from the David McKnight Canadian Little Magazine and Small Press Collection McKnight, David An exhibition catalogue featuring over one hundred highlights of a large and extraordinary collection of Canadian little magazines and Canadian small press and micro-press imprints assembled by David McKnight, a librarian and collector who donated the collection to the University of Alberta Libraries in 2012. It now forms part of the Bruce Peel Special Collections.
Books without Bosses: Forty Years of Reading Between the Lines Clarke, Robert Clarke, and Kara Sievewright, illustrator A history of a small publishing company founded in November 1977 as a cooperative venture of Dumont Press Graphix and the Development Education Centre. Between the Lines publishes nonfiction books on Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities, migrants, women, LGTBQ+, and working-class people.
Pressing Matters: 50 Years in Publishing Clarke, Robert Clarke, and Kara Sievewright, illustrator A history of Black Moss Press and its role in the development of local and national culture in Canada.

Academic Publishing

Journal of Scholarly Publishing, “Special Section on the Future of University Press in Canada” Bradley-St-Cyr, Ruth, et al., eds. An issue devoted to the current scholarly publishing landscape in Canada, including articles on open access and its impact on academic libraries, the development and changes of the Wilfred Laurier and Concordia University Presses, copyright, academic publishing in Indigenous studies, and other topics.
The University as Publisher Harman, Eleanor Published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the University of Toronto Press, Harman (1909–1988), a long-serving associate editor (and later associate director at the U of T Press), examines the history of the publisher and scholarly publishing in Canada.
On the Edge, at the Centre: A Life in History Hallowell, Gerald Hallowell recounts his career as a distinguished acqusitions editor, the history of the University of Toronto Press, and analyzes the role of book editors in scholarly publishing.

“‘A Press with Such Traditions’: Oxford University Press of Canada” Panofsky, Ruth Examines the changes in the publishing program of the Oxford University Press (which established a Canadian branch in Toronto on August 10, 1904) in the context of Canadian history and literature. Panofsky also analyzes the activities of the OUP’s managers, S.B. Gundy, W.H. Clarke, C.C. Johnson, William Toy, Lorne Wilkinson, and Richard Teleky.

Children’s Books

Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing Edwards, Gail, and Judith Saltman Examines illustrated children’s books from geographical, historical, and cultural perspectives on the Canadian national identity, published between the 1890s to 2005. The authors also study the institutions and the professionals involved in the Canadian book writing, publishing, and reading, including authors, publishers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and critics.
Canadian Children’s Book News Canadian Children’s Book Centre A quarterly magazine publishing book reviews, author and illustrator interviews, profiles of publishers and bookstores, and news about children’s education and reading.

reviewed & updated 24 November 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI