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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.

A portrait of Peter Quartermain.
Peter Quartermain, date unknown

| Recordings

  • Basil Bunting. 21 Nov ’84 w PQ

    Citation: Bunting, Basil and Peter Quartermain. “BB 21 Nov ‘84 w PQ”. 21 November 1984. Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain In this interview between Peter Quartermain and Basil Bunting, conducted on 21 November 1984, Quartermain asks Bunting three main questions. The first prompt is to “tell me…

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  • Basil Bunting. Nov ’84. Side A

    Citation: Bunting, Basil and Peter Quartermain. “Bunting. Nov ‘84”. 20 November 1984. 2022.002.190, Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain On 20 November 1984, Peter Quartermain conducted an interview with Basil Bunting. This forms part of a larger series of interviews, some of which are also available on the…

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  • Basil Bunting. Nov ’84. Side B

    Citation: Bunting, Basil and Peter Quartermain. “Bunting. Nov ‘84”. 20 November 1984. 2022.002.190, Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain This interview between Peter Quartermain and Basil Bunting was conducted on 20 November 1984. It forms part of a series of interviews that are partially accessible on the SoundBox…

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  • Basil Bunting. 1970 Interview

    Citation: Bunting, Basil, Quartermain, Peter and Warren Tallman. “Bunting 1970 Interview”. 4 November 1970. 2022.002.182, Peter Quartermain fonds, SoundBox Collection, AMP Lab at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/peter-quartermain On 4 November 1970, Peter Quartermain and Warren Tallman record an interview with Basil Bunting primarily about his involvement with Modernist writers in London, U.K. The discussion…

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    Charles Olson Memorial Poetry Reading

    Writers gather in Vancouver to commemorate the life of U.S.American poet Charles Olson.

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| Remediations

There are no ‘Remediations’ available for this author at this time.

In black and white, Meredith Quartermain and Peter Quartermain stand together against the backdrop of a mountain range. They look up and off into the landscape before them which we cannot see.
Meredith Quartermain and Peter Quartermain, 1976.

| Bibliography

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau and Peter Quartermain, Eds. The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Tuscaloosa: U Alabama P, 1999.

Quartermain, Peter. Basil Bunting: Poet of the North. Durham: Durham University Library, 1990.

—. Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein to Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

—-. Growing Dumb: An Autobiography of An English Education. Montreal-Vancouver: Zat-So Productions, 2021.

—. “Slow Learner.” Interview with Andrew Klobucar. The Capilano Review. 2.44 (2004): 5-24.

—. Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde. Tuscaloosa: U Alabama P, 2013.

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