Ouroboros

Location
Ottawa, Ontario

Timeline
1982-1989

Editor
Colin Morton

Details
From 1982 to 1989, Colin Morton was editor and publisher of Ouroboros, an Ottawa-based publishing house that produced books, chapbooks and ephemera, producing works by himself, as well as a number of poets around him at the time, including Susan McMaster, Chris Wind, Robert Eady, Margaret Dyment and John Bell, and culminated in the anthology Capital Poets, which included work by Nadine McInnis, John Barton, Christopher Levenson and John Newlove. He is currently one of the organizers of The TREE Reading Series.

See an interview with Colin Morton about the press here.

Broadsides
1982 – Colin Morton, “Poem Without Shame” (8.5 x 14, 3-fold); art by Carol English

1983 – Susan McMaster, “Seven Poems” (8.5 x 14, 3-fold); art by Claude Dupuis

1983 – John Bell, “The Third Side” (11 x 17, 4-fold); art by Suanne Rogers

1986 – Chris Wind, “The House that Jack Built” (11 x 17 poster)

1989 – Richard Kostelanetz, “Openings” (8.5 x 11, 3-fold)

Chapbooks
1983 – Margaret (Slavin) Dyment, “I Didn’t Get Used To It” (24 pp.); art by Claude Dupuis

1987 – Colin Morton, “Two Decades: from A Century of Inventions” (28 pp.)

1989 – Nancy Corson Carter, “Patchword Quilt” (16 pp.)

Books
1984 – ''The Scream: First Draft; the third annual group show'' (96 pp.); writing by Colin Morton, Susan McMaster, Nan Cormier; music by Andrew McClure, Andrew Parsons; art by Claude Dupuis, Carol English; design by Claude Dupuis

1985 – Robert Eady, ''The Blame Business'' (50 pp.); cover art by Darien Watson

1986 – Susan McMaster, ''Dark Galaxies ''(50 pp.); cover art by Roberta Huebener

1989 – Capital Poets (96 pp.); poetry by John Barton, Margaret Dyment, Holly Kritsch, Christopher Levenson, Blaine Marchand, Nadine McInnis, Susan McMaster, Colin Morton, John Newlove, Sandra Nicholls

Postcards
1983 – Colin Morton, “Dialogue 1” “Dialogue 2” “Dialogue 3” “Dialogue 4”

1984 – Penn Kemp, “Incremental”

1984 – Colin Morton, “Twins”

1984 – LeRoy Gorman, “moon”

1985 – Noah Zacharin, “Blues”

1985 – Colin Morton, “I read a shadow on the stream”

1985 – Robert Eady, “Amnesty” “The Lie” “Concise History of a Room” “How to Lube a Car”

1987 – Maureen Korp, “Melting Ice” (with art by Mitsu Ikemura)