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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Remediations

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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