Susan McMaster's recent book, Waging Peace, collects the poetry, art, and texts from Convergence: Poems for Peace, which presented art-wrapped poems from across Canada to all MPs and Senators in 2001. She's published poetry books, wordmusic, recordings, and scripts; edited collections and series; founded Vernissage, the magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and the national feminist magazine Branching Out (1973-); and was an original member of the intermedia group First Draft (1981-).

 

Since 1996, she's been the wordsmith in Geode Music & Poetry (formerly SugarBeat), recording two CDs with Jennifer Giles on keyboards, Alrick Huebener on bass, and friends, and performing at 50-plus venues including the National Library, Kingston Fringe Jazz Festival, Rasputin's, Blue Skies Music Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, Elora Music Festival, Artscape, and Ottawa International Writers Festival.

 

Susan works part-time as editor of art catalogues for the National Gallery. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, PEN (Canada), the Writers' Trust, SOCAN, CanCopy, the Musician's Union, the Ottawa Independent Writers and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Her new book, Water, Paper, Stone is forthcoming from Black Moss Press in 2004.

 

Selected Publications
Pass this way again (with First Draft). 1983.
Dark Galaxies. (Ouroboros, 1986).
North/South (with First Draft). (Underwhich, 1987).
Dangerous Graces: Women's Poetry on Stage (editor). (Balmuir Publishing, 1987).
Wordmusic (audiotape, with First Draft), 1986.
The Hummingbird Murders. (Quarry Press, 1992).
Learning to Ride. (Quarry Press, 1994).
Dangerous Times. (audiotape, with SugarBeat, 1996).
Uncommon Prayer. (Quarry Press, 1997).
Siolence: Essays on Women, Violence and Silence (editor). (Quarry Press, 1997).
SugarBeat Music & Poetry (CD, SugarBeat 1998).

Geode Music & Poetry, CD (Geode, 2000) ISBN 0-9687191-0-4
Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, editor (Penumbra Press, Manotick, 2002).

La Deriva del Pianeta/World Shift (Schifanoia Editore, 2003) ISBN 88-87882-30-4.

Water, Paper, Stone (Black Moss Press, 2004).

Selected Anthologies
Celebrating Canadian Women. Ed. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989).
A Room at the Heart of Things. Ed. Elisabeth Harvor (VŽhicule, 1999).
Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport. Eds. Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden. (Human Kinetics, 1999).
Line by Line: An Anthology of Candian Poetry. Ed. and with drawings by Heather Spears (Ekstasis Editions, 2002).
Nth,Sage Hill Fall Poetry Colloquium, 2003.

The Lunar Plexus(Aut. Penn Kemp, PsychoSpace Sounds, Pendas Productions, 2002) ISBN 1-894715-01-2.

Two Lips(Aut. Penn Kemp, PsychoSpace Sounds, Pendas Productions, 2001) ISBN 0-920820-35-2.

Books in Print
McMaster, Susan
Learning to Ride. Quarry Press, 1994. $12.95 ISBN: 1-55082-104-0.
Hummingbird Murders. Quarry Press, 1992. $12.95 ISBN: 1-55082-048-6.
Uncommon Prayer. Quarry Press, 1997. ISBN: 1-55082-196-2.

SugarBeat Music & Poetry (CD recording) SugarBeat, 1998, $18.00

Geode Music & Poetry (CD recording) Geode, 2000, ISBN 0-9687191-0-4, $18.00
Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action. Penumbra Press, 2002.
La Deriva del Pianeta / World Shift,Translation by Ana Donati, (Schifanoia Editore, 2003) ISBN 88-87882-30-4. $15.

Susan McMaster 43 Belmont Avenue, Ottawa ON K1S 0T9
smcmaster@ncf.ca
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/mcmaster

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