19 April 2005
K.I. Press Shortlisted for
Pat Lowther Memorial Award

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that K.I. Press has been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her recent poetry collection, Spine (Gaspereau Press, 2004). The League of Canadian Poets announced the shortlist on Monday, 18 April 2005. Fellow nominees are Ronna Bloom for Public Works (Pedlar Press), Roo Borson for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (McClelland & Stewart), Aislinn Hunter for The Possible Past (Polestar), Sue Sinclair for The Drunken Lovely Bird (Goose Lane Editions) and Jan Zwicky for Robinson’s Crossing (Brick Books).

The League of Canadian Poets gives the award annually to a female Canadian poet who has published in the previous year. The award is in memory of the late Pat Lowther, a poet whose career was cut short by her untimely death in 1975. The winner of this year’s award will be announced on 11 June 2005 at the League’s annual general meeting in Toronto. For more information about the League and this award, please visit www.poets.ca

BACKGROUND
Spine is K.I. Press’s second collection of poems, in which her fascination with books opens onto a realm where fictional and historical characters take up lives beyond their original texts. From the first lyrical beats, we are pulled into a world where familiar characters – like Eric Gill, the apostle Paul and Jane Eyre – spout new lines and where existence is dependent on staying firmly immersed in books.

K. I. Press grew up in Edmonton and in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. She has also lived in Vancouver and in Ottawa, where she received an MA in English literature from the University of Ottawa. Her previous publications include Pale Red Footprints (Pedlar Press) and a poetry chapbook from above/ground press entitled Flame. She lives in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood.

Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com