{"id":652,"date":"2021-09-06T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/?page_id=652"},"modified":"2023-07-10T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T06:27:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Gustafson Distinguished Poets Lecture Series is ideal for poets, collectors of artisanal books in this format and literary nature, and professors of English and Creative Writing looking for essays by authors about their craft for classroom or workshop use. Titles are the ideal gift for those studying English, Creative Writing, Liberal Studies, and other disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently 8 in-print titles in the series by Fred Wah, Dennis Lee, George Elliott Clarke, Gary Geddes, Don McKay, Dionne Brand, Tom Wayman, and Robert Bringhurst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An additional 3 titles by Erin Moure, Lorna Crozier, and Lillian Allen are forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On My Way to Get a Pail of Water<\/em> by Fred Wah (2020)
Smythe-sewn binding, 48 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-928172-30-7<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bearing Witness<\/a><\/em> by Gary Geddes (2016)
Smythe-sewn binding, 48 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-928172-09-3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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On Entering the Echo Chamber of Epic: My \u201cCanticles\u201d vs. Pound\u2019s Cantos<\/a> <\/em>by George Elliott Clarke (2016)
Smythe-sewn binding, 64 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-928172-10-9<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Re-Greening the Undermusic<\/a> <\/em>by Dennis Lee (2016)
Smythe-sewn binding, 48 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-896886-12-3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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From Here to Infinity or So<\/a> <\/em>by Don McKay (2011)
Smythe-sewn binding, 48 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-896886-25-1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Songs Without Price<\/a><\/em> by Tom Wayman (2008)
Smythe-sewn binding, 64 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-896886-07-7<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Kind of Perfect Speech<\/a><\/em> by Dionne Brand (2008)
Smythe-sewn binding, 48 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-896886-05-3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wild Language<\/a><\/em> by Robert Bringhurst (2006)
Smythe-sewn binding, 48 pp, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches
ISBN 978-1-896886-08-4<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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