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Winner of the Nelson Ball Prize, 2023Shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman AwardMinimalist poetry for maximalist times.Sheets: Typewriter Works extends the minimalist explorations of Cameron Anstee's first collection, Book of Annotations. Prompted by receiving the Olivetti Lettera 30 typewriter that belonged to poet William Hawkins after his death in 2016, the works in this book explore how small poems operate through the freedoms and constraints of the typewriter as both a decaying machine and a mode of composition. Through engagement with writers and artists like Jiri Valoch, Barbara Caruso, Leroy Gorman, Cia Rinne, William Hawkins, Dani Spinosa, Kate Siklosi, and Norman McLaren, Sheets: Typewriter Works re-embeds the minimalist poem in the typewritten page.
FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography
Cameron Anstee isthe author of one previous collection of poetry, Book of Annotations, and the editor ofThe Collected Poems of William Hawkins. He is the editor and publisher of Apt. 9 Press andholds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Ottawa. He lives andwrites in Ottawa on the traditional unceded territory of the AlgonquinAnishnaabeg people.
Review
"Reading Sheets is a strange and wonderful experience. At times, composed fragments are isolated outbursts, constrained by the machine itself; on other occasions, inspiration flows freely over multiple pages. By its end, what begins as a whisper – 'after years' – crescendos over sixteen pages before closing on the cyclical refrain – 'after years / years'. The cacophonous conclusion implies the continuation beyond this period of productivity and experimentation that the pamphlet captures, leaving the reader pondering the possibility of what is to come."—The Poetry Review"Sheets: Typewriter Works is at once an enigmatic gift and feat of curiosity. Anstee composes the 'eternal etcetera' in this collaboration between a poet and his late friend's Olivetti Lettera 30 typewriter. Sheets embodies a poet forwarding through language with love, carrying on through grief without backspace, tilting the page, pinning the voice. This collection is testament to how the language of love and grief can hold—and is itself—poetry."—Archibald Lampman Jury Citation"Master of the abundant small, Anstee makes space ring and strikes up the thingness of every word in this collection of the underinked, the overinked, the visual rhythm, the taptaptapestry, lovingly spooling back to past typers and out towards you."—Susan Holbrook, author of Ink Earl"Sheets: Typewriter Works furthers Anstee's poetic explorations into and through the minimal, but through gestures that extend both the act and result of writing—both composition and erasure—into the deeply physical. The effect is striking and immediate... [...] There is a meditative kind of breathlessness to these understated gems, one that allows each poem to sit, not as a complete thought, but as individual gestures as both moments in space and as part of a lengthy, open-ended and even life-long sequence."—rob mclennan"I was intrigued by how the micro transcription of an event in time—like a fly landing on the page of a book—opens into reality at large."—Aram Saroyan, author of Complete Minimal Poems
Long Description
Minimalist poetry for maximalist times. Sheets: Typewriter Works extends the minimalist explorations of Cameron Anstee's first collection, Book of Annotations . Prompted by receiving the Olivetti Lettera 30 typewriter that belonged to poet William Hawkins after his death in 2016, the works in this book explore how small poems operate through the freedoms and constraints of the typewriter as both a decaying machine and a mode of composition. Through engagement with writers and artists like Jiri Valoch, Barbara Caruso, Leroy Gorman, Cia Rinne, William Hawkins, Dani Spinosa, Kate Siklosi, and Norman McLaren, Sheets: Typewriter Works re-embeds the minimalist poem in the typewritten page.
Review Quote
"I was intrigued by how the micro transcription of an event in time--like a fly landing on the page of a book--opens into reality at large."--Aram Saroyan, author of Complete Minimal Poems
Description for Sales People
Engages with both lyric and concrete/visual poetics. Overarching mood: nostalgic, reverent, spirited. The book itself is a conversation between poets: Following the death of poet William Hawkins on July 4, 2016, Cameron Anstee was gifted Hawkins' Olivetti Lettera 30 typewriter, a lightweight manual travel typewriter from the early 1970s. Cameron began by re-typing some of Hawkins' poems on the Olivetti as a way of re-engaging with his friend's work, before starting to use it to explore how his own developing minimalist poetics would be changed if the typewriter was the mode of composition. The result of those explorations--this book--was composed entirely on Hawkins' Olivetti using the same ribbon that was on it when he died. For readers of Robert Lax's poems (1962-1997); N.H. Pritchard's The Matrix: Poems: 1960-1970 ; and Paul Stephens' absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature . Cameron's PhD is in Canadian literature and book history, small press history, bookselling history, and he's well-positioned to speak about independent publishing, chapbooks, small presses, literary readings, and book design--in addition to writing minimalist poems. Cameron edited the most recent publication of William Hawkins' poetry, The Collected Poems of William Hawkins , which is also available from Invisible Publishing.
Details ISBN1778430082 Author Cameron Anstee Short Title Sheets Publisher Invisible Publishing Language English ISBN-10 1778430082 ISBN-13 9781778430084 Format Paperback Subtitle Typewriter Works Pages 128 Imprint Invisible Publishing Year 2022 Publication Date 2022-11-17 Country of Publication Canada UK Release Date 2022-11-17 DEWEY 811.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-01-09 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this
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