Spine

Gaspereau Press | Released 1 September 2004 | Poetry | $18.95 CAN | $15.95 US | 1894031903 | Trade paperback

“Press’s Spine displays a poet serious about her craft. ”
— Books in Canada

“[Press’s] ultra-clear diction and satirical reading-twixt-lines recall Margaret Atwood, but Press has more whimsy and less menace.” — George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-Herald

“Throughout the collection, Press expresses something of the complicated relationship with books that every reader experiences – namely, that the need to read is always shaded by the suspicion that reading is simply another form of escape from living.” — Quill & Quire

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Design

Spine's cover was letter-pressed in-house by the printer and publisher, Gaspereau Press. The book includes a poem about Eric Gill's youngest daughter, Joanna—as well as poems about typesetting—and the designer, Andrew Steeves, set the book in a modern version of Gill's "Joanna" typeface.

Poems from the book

These poems published online also appear in Spine, but often in a revised form (and sometimes with a different title):

• On Visiting the Alice Shop in Oxford and Telling the Shopkeeper about Stephanie Bolster's Poem about Visiting the Alice Shop at Oxford
• The Letters
• Slushpile
• Library

Awards

• Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award (for book of poetry by Canadian woman)

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