Meredith Quartermain is a Vancouver-based poet known as a writer of place, urban life and its history. Reviewing her most recent book, Margaret Christakos of the Globe and Mail commented "Quartermain . . . reads the downtown's every street sign and historical plaque to invoke not vagaries of weather or a sensitive narrator's emotional landscape, but the lived epic of how specific native soil became appropriated to a condition of contemporary real estate." "With Vancouver Walking," writes Marc Christensen of Monday Magazine, "Meredith Quartermain enters the esteemed literary company of George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Frank Davey, Jeff Derksen and others who have written the multitudinous city, exploring Vancouver as a moving target for poetry. . . . Under Quartermain's gaze, even the most local Vancouver story becomes a link to the greater world, transforming the city into a cosmopolis made of the mad whirls of history, in constant motion with the fates of its living (and long dead) millions."
Meredith Quartermain has taught English literature and writing at UBC and Capilano College, and Creative Writing at the Naropa Summer Writing Program. She is also a founder and editor with Jacqueline Turner of The News, a west coast literary website. She runs, with husband Peter Quartermain, Nomados Literary Publishers, in Vancouver, BC Canada.
Awards
BC Book Awards Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2006 for Vancouver Walking.
Selected Publications
Vancouver Walking (Edmonton: NeWest, 2005) ISBN 1-896300-81-2 118 pp
The Eye-Shift of Surface (Victoria: Greenboathouse Books, 2003) ISBN 1-894744-14-4 40 pp
Highway 99 (Stanzas 35; Above Ground 2003)
A Thousand Mornings (Vancouver: Nomados, 2002) ISBN 0-9731521-2-5 90 pp
[with Robin Blaser] Wanders (Vancouver: Nomados, 2002) ISBN 0-9731521-0-9 39 pp
Spatial Relations (Boca Raton, Florida: Diaeresis, 2001) 34 pp
Abstract Relations (Vancouver: Keefer Street, 1998) 20 pp
Terms of Sale(Buffalo: Meow, 1996) 48 pp
Selected Anthologies
Moosehead Anthology 10: Future Welcome (2005)
Books in Print
Vancouver Walking (Edmonton: NeWest, 2005) ISBN 1-896300-81-2 118 pp
Highway 99 (Stanzas 35; Above Ground 2003) 28 pp
A Thousand Mornings (Vancouver: Nomados, 2002) ISBN 0-9731521-2-5 90 pp
[with Robin Blaser] Wanders (Vancouver: Nomados, 2002) ISBN 0-9731521-0-9 39 pp
Interviews
Interview with Rob Mclennan (2004) Alterran Poetry Assemblage http://ca.geocities.com/alterra@rogers.com/inter.htm
Interview with Aaron Peck (2003) http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/MeredithQ.htm
Contact
Website: http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/MeredithQ.htm
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meredithjacqueline@yahoo.com