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ISLAND / COACH HOUSE PRESS PRODUCTIONSGeorge Oppen. Discrete Series. [Toronto: Mother/Island Press, 1966]. Permission to reprint Oppen's first book was obtained by Pittsburgh native Ron Caplan, whom Coleman had met in Detroit. Caplan also produced a small text of Louis Zukofsky’s in an attempt to restore the flagging reputations of the Objectivist poets.
Designed and printed by Victor Coleman in an edition of 50 copies in April 1967 at The Coach House Press. Set in 10 pt Helvetica. Although he lived in Toronto a short time, Caplan moved to the East Coast where he founded and edited Cape Breton’s Magazine, which continues to publish to date. Cover reproduced by permission of Ronald Caplan.
Printed at The Coach House Press. Victor Coleman had discussed the possibility of a reprint of the 1995 Divers Press edition while visiting Blackburn in New York in 1964. “The Dissolving Fabric”, from The Collected Poems of Blackburn, edited by Edith Jarolim, copyright © 1954, 1985 by Joan Blackburn. Cover reproduced by permission of Persea Books, Inc.
Mailing list reproduced by permission of Victor Coleman. Letter from Paul Blackburn to Victor Coleman. 26 May 1964.
Letter reproduced by permission of Eleanor Nichol.
Letter reproduced by permission of George Bowering.
Composed in collaboration with Victor Coleman, who contributed a list of poets, many of whom were from the West Coast, including Fred Wah, Victor Coleman, David Dawson, Jamie Reid, Barry Lord, Peter Auxier and Daphne Marlatt. Letter reproduced by permission of Raymond Souster.
Letter reproduced by permission of Raymond Souster.
New Wave Canada was typeset on an IBM Selectric typewriter by Victor Coleman and printed at Len Fox's short-lived Rubicon Press. Cover reproduced by permission of Victor Coleman. Mock-up of title page for New Wave Canada. Designed by William Toye of Oxford University Press at the request of Victor Coleman, who was the Press’s assistant production manager at the time. Type was from Cooper & Beatty.
Printed at The Coach House Press as an insert to the last issue of Island (nos.7/8) and an adjunct to the necessarily linear New Wave Canada anthology, New Wave Portfolio includes song sheets, concrete poetry and handwritten contributions. Letter from Len Gasparini to The Coach House Press. May 1, 1967. Gasparini had first written to Raymond Souster who recommended that the young Windsor poet send his manuscript to The Coach House Press. |