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Peter Quartermain

A portrait of Peter Quartermain.
Peter Quartermain, date unknown

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.

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Peter Quartermain fonds

A lime green cassette. The title reads, "Fel Santos & Listening Center." Below reads, "Aklopolis."

Due to the sheer volume of this collection, subjects are many. They include: Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Susan Howe, Steve McCaffery, Lyn Hejinian, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky, Kathleen Fraser, Joan Retallack, Beverley Dahlen, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Rae Armantrout, Susan Gevirtz, Rosemarie Waldrop, Robin Blaser, Jerome McGann, Marjorie Perloff, Nathaniel Mackey, Joseph Conte, Jenny Penberthy, Ezra Pound, P.G. Wodehouse, Meredith Quartermain, Daphne Marlatt, Don Byrd, John “Jack” Clarke, Burton Hatlen, Gael Turnbull, Judith Draycott, Bruce Andrews, George Bowering, Miriam Nichols, Douglas Oliver, Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Nicole Brossard, Diane Ward, Myung Mi Kim, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsburg, Robert Creeley, Joanne Kyger, Stan Persky, Colin Stuart, Brian Fawcett, George Stanley, Gerry Gilbert, Lorine Neidecker, John Cage, Stephen Cummings, Allen Fisher, Sharon Thesen, John Hulcoop, Joe Rosenblatt, Bill Bissett, David Bromige, Tony Baker, Harry Gilonis, Bob Perelman, Lorraine Weir, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Roy Fisher, Jonathan Williams, Theresa Clark, Carletta Wilson, Peter Courtemanche, Scott McLeod, G.P. Skratz, Bob Davis, Fel Santos, Douglas Oliver, Marc Karlin, Helen Adam, Charles Stein, Jackson MacLow, François Dufrêne, Geraldine Monk, Jack Spicer, James Joyce and Hugh Kenner.

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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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