We now have lowercase reading room business cards! Stop by the reading room to pick one up. You’ll find our email address on our card as well as the address for this blog. We are always so very happy to receive new books from our readers and want to thank each of you personally. Therefore we need to know your email address or your postal address. The reading room email address is: lowercasereadingroom@gmail.com. Please write to us with any questions or concerns.
The Russian zines and Estonian artists books exhibition has closed and while I was putting books away and setting up a new display from the collection I discovered two books of poetry I hadn’t seen before.
th emerald dreems uv port colborne ontario by bill bissett was published Warren Dean Fulton’s Pooka Press in 1999. It was great to find this chapbook in the collection. Thanks to whoever donated it.
The copy of Force Movements by Nelson Ball is the 2nd edition “slightly revised”. The first edition was published by bp nichol’s Ganglia Press in Toronto in 1969. Thanks to whoever donated this book. Stand up and take credit. There is a great deal of Canadian publishing history embodied in these two chapbooks.
Recently added to the collection are two zines from Halifax that were made during the 24 Hour Zine Challenge hosted by Anchor Archive. You can read all about the 24Hour Zine Thing here: www.http://24hourzines.com
This is a project where participants make a 24 page zine from the start to the finished printed copy in 24 hours. No stopping, No sleeping! The idea is to not have any ideas until the day you sit down to work. I made a 24 hour zine last year. It was great fun and wonderfully exhilarating to spend such a concentrated time working on a book. It was also exhausting. I thought of doing it again this year but that’s as far as I got.
How I Got Over my Fear of Spiders is by Amanda Stevens. Educate Yourself about Botanical Hairstyles is by Sonia Edworthy. Both women (of great stamina) should be congratulated on finishing their projects.
Also briefly noted in New Contributions is issue #1 of Enthusiasm a free zine by Susie and Tim from Norwich, England and a small poetry chapbook by Edwin.
For those of you who were at the gala third anniversary party for the Regional Assembly of Text (where the lowercase reading room makes its home) you will remember the cake to end all cakes by Allison Chambers. For those who couldn’t come to the party, here are some pictures now.
that is a thing of beauty and wonder.
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