3 April 2007
K.I. Press Shortlisted for
Pat Lowther Memorial Award

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that K.I. Press’s Types of Canadian Women, Volume II (Gaspereau Press, 2006) has been shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Fellow nominees are Dionne Brand’s Inventory (McClelland & Stewart), Lynn Crosbie’s Liar (House of Anansi), Susan Elmslie’s I, Nadja and Other Poems (Brick Books), Sina Queyras’ Lemon Hound (Coach House) and Sharon Thesen’s The Good Bacteria (House of Anansi). Press was previously nominated for this award in 2005 for her collection Spine (GP, 2004).

The League of Canadian Poets gives the Pat Lowther Memorial 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 award carries a $1,000 prize. This year’s winner will be announced on 9 June 2007 at the League’s Annual General Meeting in Edmonton. For more information about the League and this award, please visit www.poets.ca

BACKGROUND
In 1903, a biographical album of Canadian women was published. The publishers envisioned a second volume, but when after a century, none was forthcoming, poet K.I. Press decided to write the one she wished had been. A subversive fantasia of archetypes, Press’s send-up Volume II is a collection of prose and poetry, illustrated with archival photographs. Press illuminates her portraits of farming, pioneering, politics, writing, painting, acting, athletics, childbirth, homemaking, religion, education, romance and psychosis with fantastical and symbolic elements to create a series of narratives that slip almost imperceptibly from reality into imagination and back again.

K.I. Press’s previous publications include Spine (GP, 2004) and Pale Red Footprints. Press grew up in Edmonton and in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. She now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the Alberta Book Award for fiction, and numerous Alcuin Awards 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