New Wave Canada/Island Press	New Wave Canada

ISLAND / COACH HOUSE PRESS PRODUCTIONS

George 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.

	Ron Caplan. Countin. [Toronto: Mother/Island,] 1967.

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.

	Paul Blackburn. The Dissolving Fabric. Toronto: Mother/Island, 1966.

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.

	Island Press mailing list.

Mailing list reproduced by permission of Victor Coleman.

Letter from Paul Blackburn to Victor Coleman. 26 May 1964.

	Letter from bpNichol to [Victor Coleman]. 10 August 1964.

Letter reproduced by permission of Eleanor Nichol.

	George Bowering to Victor Coleman. 13 May 1964.

Letter reproduced by permission of George Bowering.

	Raymond Souster form letter. [1965]

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 from Raymond Souster to Victor Coleman. 1 December 1965.

Letter reproduced by permission of Raymond Souster.

	New Wave Canada: The New Explosion in Canadian Poetry. Toronto: Contact Press, 1966.

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.

	New Wave Portfolio. [1966].

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.

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