A writer, artist, editor and publisher from Nova Scotia who has been living in Fredericton, New Brunswick since 1990, Joe Blades runs Maritimes Arts Projects Productions, is the publisher at Broken Jaw Press Inc., and is on the editorial board of ellipse magazine. A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA, 1988), he is also an alumni of the Banff Centre for the Arts Writing Program, Maritime Writers Workshop, Sage Hill Experience, and the Simon Fraser University Book Publishing Immersion Workshop. Blades curated Videopoems: a screening for the Tidal Wave Film Festival (2003) and was the producer-host of Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Poetry & Writing show on CHSR from 1995-2006. Since 1980, his poetry has appeared in magazines, videos, art exhibitions, over 50 anthologies, 28 chapbooks, and four books. He travels extensively, giving readings, lectures and workshops across Canada, in the Eastern USA, and in Europe.
Selected Publications
Cover Makes a Set. (SpareTime Editions, 1990).
River Suite (Insomniac Press, 1998).
Open Road West (Broken Jaw Press, 2000, 2001).
Casemate Poems (Widows & Orphans, 2004).
Pesme iz kazamata (Rad, 2005) translated into Serbian by Dubravka Duric.
Selected Anthologies
The Toronto Collection (Manoeuvres Press, 1983).
Loose Connections (Roseway Publishing, 1990).
Wor(l)d Poem / Poema Mu(n)do (Bibliotheca Municipal Figueira da Foz, 1993).
Connexion XXII “An Exquisite Corpse” (Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1994).
Open 24 Hours (Broken Jaw Press, 1997).
Poetry Nation (Véhicule Press, 1998).
Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1998).
Line by Line, An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poets. (Ekstastis Editions, 2002).
Inside Poetry, Second Edition (Harcourt Canada, 2002).
Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003).
Tiré à part : situer les pratiques d’édition des centres d’artistes / Off Printing: Situating Publishing Practices in Artist-run Centres (Regroupement des centres d’artistes autogérés du Québec, 2005).
Slike iz kanade: Tri kanadska pesnika (SKC Niš, 2005), Aleksandar Blagojević and Vesna Lopičić, translators into Serbian.
Books in Print
afterimage / naknadna slika (SpareTime Editions, 2004). $10.00 ISBN 1-55391-016-8.
Casemate Poems (Widows & Orphans, 2004). $12.00 ISBN 0-9734130-1-8.
Cover Makes a Set (SpareTime Editions, 1990). $14.95 ISBN 0-919957-60-9.
Open 24 Hours (Broken Jaw Press, 1997). $17.95 ISBN 0-921411-64-2.
Open Road West (Broken Jaw Press, 2000). $16.95 ISBN 1-896647-30-8.
Pesme iz kazamata (Rad, 2005). $12.00 ISBN 86-09-00893-1.
River Suite (Insomniac Press, 1998). $11.99 ISBN 1-895837-46-4.
Slike iz kanade: Tri kanadska pesnika (SKC Niš, 2005). $20.00 ISBN 86-7757-119-1.
some stuff on canadian spoken word & indie publishing (NCRA-ANREC, 2004), nonfiction. $12.00 ISBN 0-9735028-0-0.
Space Station II (Broken Jaw Press, 2005). $40.00 ISBN 1-55391-042-7.
Joe Blades, Box 596 Stn A, Fredericton NB E3B 5A6. T (506) 454-5127.
Email: joeblades@nb.aibn.com
Website: www.brokenjaw.com/Joe_Blades.htm. Blog: brokenjoe.blogspot.com