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The Big Why by Michael Winter
Myth of Ability by John Mighton
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the 2005 Shortlist by Erin (Ed.) Moure
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About meHouse of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 by writers Dennis Lee and David Godfrey.
The company specializes in finding and developing Canada's great new writers of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction and in maintaining a culturally significant backlist that has accumulated since the house was founded 35 years ago.
Anansi started as a small press with a mandate to publish only Canadian writers, and quickly gained attention for publishing significant authors such as Margaret Atwood, Matt Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, and Erin Mouré, as well as George Grant and Northrop Frye.
French-Canadian works in translation have always been an important part of the list, and prominent Anansi authors in translation include Roch Carrier, Anne Hébert, Lise Bissonnette, and Marie-Claire Blais.
House of Anansi Press was purchased in June 2002 from Stoddart Publishing by Scott Griffin, founder of the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.
House of Anansi Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities.
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Black shadows fall
From the lindens tall,
That lift aloft their massive wall
Against the southern sky;
And from the realms
Of the shadowy elms
A tide-like darkness overwhelm
The fields that round us lie.
But the night is fair,
And everywhere
A warm, soft vapor fills the air,
And distant sounds seem near;
And above, in the light
Of the star-lit night,
Swift birds of passage wing their flight
Through the dewy atmosphere.
I hear the beat
Of their pinions fleet,
As from the land of snow and sleet
They seek a southern lea.
I hear the cry
Of their voices high
Falling dreamily through the sky,
But their forms I cannot see.
Oh, say not so!
Those sounds that flow
In murmurs of delight and woe
Come not from wings of birds.
They are the throngs
Of the poet's songs,
Murmurs of pleasures, and pains, and wrongs,
The sound of winged words.
This is the cry
Of souls, that high
On toiling, beating pinions, fly,
Seeking a warmer clime.
From their distant flight
Through realms of light
It falls into our world of night,
With the murmuring sound of rhyme.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
posted by theoldman at 7:14 am (EST) on Nov 28, 2009
How nice to see a Toronto publisher here! If you or your readers are interested in Toronto literature as such (a considerable volume of it published by Anansi or authored by writers associated with Anansi in the past), I hope you will feel welcome to visit the Imagining Toronto library. I've also catalogued a bunch of Toronto titles here, but it's much slower going.
Amy Lavender Harris
posted by alharris at 4:39 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2007