Peter Quartermain

Peter Quartermain (1934– ) is an English writer, critic, publisher and teacher. Quartermain spent his early life in England and migrated to Canada in the 1960s. He is the author of Basil Bunting, Poet of the North (1990), Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge U Press, 1992), Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde (U Alabama Press, 2013), and a recent memoir. Peter taught contemporary poetry at UBC for over thirty years, retiring in 1999. He and his partner Meredith Quartermain ran Slug Press, followed by Keefer Street Press, where they produced hand-set letter-press broadsides and pamphlets, and Nomados Literary Publishers, publishing many innovative poets across North America.