Footnotes: Case Studies in Small Press Bookmaking - Paperback

by Cameron Anstee (Author)

In Footnotes: Case Studies in Canadian Small Press Book Making, Cameron Anstee takes a deep dive to look at small press book makers in Canada from the 1960s onwards. His essays are a tribute to the people who have found ways to make books--and to persist in making books--celebrating work that is all too often un- or underacknowledged. Footnotes is an act of recovery, of bibliographic recuperation; it makes the case for looking at how small press books are constructed as objects and as ideas, and at how readers are asked to engage with these book objects in a constantly shifting cultural landscape.

Author Biography

Cameron Anstee is the author of two books of poetry, Sheets: Typewriter Works (Invisible Publishing, 2022) and Book of Annotations (Invisible Publishing, 2018), and the editor of The Collected Poems of William Hawkins (Chaudiere Books, 2015). He posts photos of small press books in his collection on Instagram (@smallpress_bookshelf) and his third book of poetry is forthcoming from Knife Fork Book in 2027. He is the editor and publisher of Apt. 9 Press and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Ottawa. Footnotes is his first book of essays.