Sheets: Typewriter Works extends the minimalist explorations of Cameron Anstee's first collection, Book of Annotations. Prompted by receiving the Olivetti Lettera 30 typewriter that belonged to poet William Hawkins after his death in 2016, the works in this book explore how small poems operate through the freedoms and constraints of the typewriter as both a decaying machine and a mode of composition. Through engagement with writers and artists like Jiri Valoch, Barbara Caruso, Leroy Gorman, Cia Rinne, William Hawkins, Dani Spinosa, Kate Siklosi, and Norman McLaren, Sheets: Typewriter Works re-embeds the minimalist poem in the typewritten page.

Sheets Reviews

Master of the abundant small, Anstee makes space ring and strikes up the thingness of every word in this collection of the underinked, the overinked, the visual rhythm, the taptaptapestry, lovingly spooling back to past typers and out towards you.-Susan Holbrook, author of Ink Earl

Sheets: Typewriter Works furthers Anstee's poetic explorations into and through the minimal, but through gestures that extend both the act and result of writing-both composition and erasure-into the deeply physical. The effect is striking and immediate... [...] There is a meditative kind of breathlessness to these understated gems, one that allows each poem to sit, not as a complete thought, but as individual gestures as both moments in space and as part of a lengthy, open-ended and even life-long sequence.-rob mclennan

I was intrigued by how the micro transcription of an event in time-like a fly landing on the page of a book-opens into reality at large.-Aram Saroyan, author of Complete Minimal Poems

About Cameron Anstee

Cameron Anstee is the author of one previous collection of poetry, Book of Annotations, and the editor of The Collected Poems of William Hawkins. He is the editor and publisher of Apt. 9 Press and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Ottawa. He lives and writes in Ottawa on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people.

Additional information

Sku

NGR9781778430084

ISBN 13

9781778430084

ISBN 10

1778430082

Title

Sheets: Typewriter Works by Cameron Anstee

Author

Cameron Anstee

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Invisible Publishing

Year published

2022-11-17

Number of pages

128

Prizes

N/A

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