File FL0001 - Manuscripts, submissions. 1980s

1 file of textual material: 14 Items (14 p., 6 p., 28 p., 94 p.)

• File 15.04 consists of Bumper Book: Manuscripts submitted for publication consideration in Anthology The Bumper Book but not published in Anthology; manuscripts without letters of enclosure removed from The Bumper Book correspondence files. Includes The poet as puff slut : an interview with Judith Fitzgerald by Isidore Thalia, pseudonym of Judith Fitzgerald; Hashing over Hirsch by Keith Garebian; and Literary schools and the Canadian Short Story by Allan Weiss.
• Computer printout with handwritten revisions; typescript with handwritten revisions (photocopy); computer printout.
• Includes references to the following: The Bumper Book; Manuscripts submitted for publication consideration in Anthology The Bumper Book but not published in Anthology.
• File 15.05 consists of various drafts or proofs of essays and poems published in Anthology. Includes draft and hardcopy proof of Brian Fawcett's Some proposals for the reification of poetry in Canada and good copy draft of Keith Garebian's Seasons of discontent. Also includes proofs of Louis Dudek's Shit On Your Mitt, Mr. Frye; Ralph Gustafson's An Elegy for Discourse; Martin Kevan's When You Cut Your Pie Please Save Me a Piece; John Metcalf's Update : Art Imitates Life; Suzi Knickers' Book Bits; Calling All Writers; and Rodeo Drive, or, The Long Miserable But Trendy Life of Margo Macomber. Manuscripts removed from file; possibly returned by Ross MacKay to John Metcalf after Anthology published.
• Computer printout with handwritten revisions; typescript (photocopy) with handwritten revisions; computer printout with printer's instructions; computer printout.
• Includes references to the following: The Bumper Book; Update : Art Imitates Life; Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Anthology The Bumper Book.

The Bumper Book edited by John Metcalf and published by ECW Press, 1986.

Title based on contents of file.