ONSETS

a breviary (synopticon?)

of poems 13 lines or under

published for the occasion of the

Toronto Small-Press Bookfair,

Spring 2004

78 pieces by 80 contributors from around the world, in a miniature (4.25" x 3.5") chapbook publication put together on the spur of the moment for this year's bookfair in Toronto. Neo-Sapphic fragments, satirical epigrams, squibs, haiku, jokes, jazz, typestracts, transl(iter)ations, riddles, a weather report from Iraq, lyrics in all shapes and sizes. Everything from the deadly serious to the ridiculous.

The contributors:

Gilbert Adair ... Tony Baker ... derek beaulieu ... Caroline Bergvall ... Charles Bernstein ... Michael Boughn ... George Bowering ... Daniel f. Bradley ... Ted Byrne ... Miles Champion ... Kelvin Corcoran ... Martin Corless-Smith ... Ian Davidson ... Jean Day ... Mark Dickinson ... Anne Dorward ... Paul Dutton ... Craig Dworkin ... Lori Emerson ... Allen Fisher ... Benjamin Friedlander ... William Fuller ... Harry Gilonis ... David Gitin ... Kenneth Goldsmith ... Frederick Goodwin ... Bill Griffiths ... John Hall ... Alan Halsey ... Ralph Hawkins ... Randolph Healy ... Anselm Hollo ... William Howe ... Peter Jaeger ... Elizabeth James ... Pierre Joris ... Trevor Joyce ... Christine Kennedy ... David Kennedy ... Márton Koppány ... Sophie Levy ... Mark Mendoza ... Jay MillAr ... Drew Milne ... Geraldine Monk ... Ben Murray ... Peter Larkin ... Ira Lightman ... Steve McCaffery ... Karen Mac Cormack ... Rob MacKenzie ... Douglas Manson ... Peter Manson ... Camille Martin ... Peter Middleton ... Peter O'Leary ... Ian Patterson ... dana lisa petersen ... Richard Price ... Robin Purves ... a. rawlings ... Peter Riley ... Lisa Robertson ... Nancy Shaw ... Jonathan Skinner ... Pete Smith ... Geoff Squires ... Brian Kim Stefans ... Christine Stewart ... Catriona Strang ... Chris Stroffolino ... Scott Thurston ... Keith Tuma ... Catherine Wagner ... Diane Ward ... Geoff Ward ... Susan Wheeler ... John Wilkinson ... Trevor Winkfield ... Rita Wong

Prices (postage included):

$5 Cdn / $4 US in North America

£3 / 4.50 euros overseas

OR the avant-lyric special: order it as a pair with
Peter Larkin's What the Surfaces Enclave of Wang Wei

(short lyrics worked from the Penguin translation of Wang Wei):

$7.50 Cdn / $5.75 US in North America

£4.50 / 7 euros

Send cheques to: Nate Dorward, 109 Hounslow Avenue, Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada (email: [log in to unmask]). If you have a colour preference for Onsets tell me, as they were published in a miscellany of colours: orange, yellow, cream, green, blue.