Hamilton Arts & Letters
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With Canadian presses increasingly diversifying their publishing mandates when it comes to poetry, I decided to take a look at where the art often mutates and evolves: in chapbooks. Across the country, chapbook outfits have proliferated with distinctive lists, techniques, and styles that help make poetry a living art. Cameron Anstee, editor and publisher of Apt. 9 Press, specializes in handmade chapbooks; Ashley Obscura, editor and publisher of Metatron Press, is part of an evolving trend towards microbooks; and Adèle Barclay, an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press, creates chapbooks as a response to today’s vexed questions and technologies. Each of these three writers represents a unique facet of contemporary chapbook publishing, and I sat down with them to discuss the foundations of what they do, and where they are heading. David Ly: Cameron, Apt. 9 Press is one of several presses in Canada that publishes handmade chapbooks. Could you speak to some of your forebears, and the legacy of the handmade chapbook in Canada? [ >>>>> FORWARD ]
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