Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

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.

A comprehensive listing of little-known underground periodicals. It includes two helpful indexes that contain over four hundred titles, arranged by geographic region and subject.

Metcalf is an editor (who worked at the Porcupine’s Quill and presently at Biblioasis). He is also anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher. In this memoir, he looks back on a lifetime spent in letters, surveys the current state of Canadian literature, and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.

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.

A history of Black Moss Press and its role in the development of local and national culture in Canada.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brunswick Press (based in Fredericton, New Brunswick) made significant contributions to children’s reading in Canada and published remarkable books. This title is a record of the books released by this important publisher.

A quarterly magazine publishing book reviews, author and illustrator interviews, profiles of publishers and bookstores, and news about children’s education and reading.