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Allan Briesmaster is a freelance editor and publisher who has been active in the Toronto-area poetry scene for many years. He was a partner in Quattro Books from 2006 to 2017 and has run his own micro press, Aeolus House, since 2003. He has ten full-length books of poetry and nine shorter books, and his work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. He has given readings and talks, led writers' workshops and retreats, and organized many book launches and other literary events across Canada. Allan lives in Thornhill, Ontario with his wife Holly, a visual artist with whom he has collaborated several times. |
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| Selected Books Published: - Weighted Light (watershedBooks, 1998) ISBN 1-894205-00-6 - Unleaving (Hidden Brook Press, 2001) ISBN 1-894553-29-2 - Urban-Pastoral (LyricalMyrical, 2004) ISBN 0-9734901-4-4 - Pomona Summer (Hidden Brook Press, 2005) ISBN 1-894553-29-2 - Galactic Music (LyricalMyrical, 2005) ISBN 0-9737696-6-1 - The Other Seasons (Hidden Brook Press, 2006) ISBN 1-894553-69-1 - Interstellar (Quattro Books, 2007) ISBN 978-0-9782806-0-4 - Temple of Fire (LyricalMyrical, 2008) ISBN 978-1-8972755-1-1 - Confluences (Seraphim Editions, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9808879-6-9 - Against the Flight of Spring (Quattro Books, 2013) ISBN 978-1-927443-38-5 - River Neither (Aeolus House, 2015) ISBN 978-1-987872-03-3 - The Long Bond: Selected and New Poems (Guernica Editions, 2019) ISBN 978-1-77183-466-7 - Windfor (Ekstasis Editions, 2021) ISBN 978-1-77171-434-1 - Later Findings (Ekstasis Editions, 2024) ISBN 978-1-77171-558-4 |
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| Selected Anthologies: - Mix Six (Mekler & Deahl, 1996) ISBN 1-896367-06-2 - Understatement (Seraphim Editions, 1996) ISBN 0-9699639-3-9 - Renaissance Conspiracy (Micro Prose, 2004) ISBN 0-9734609-2-X - T.O.P.S. annual anthologies from 2006 through 2024 - Renaissance Reloaded (Aeolus House, 2006) ISBN 0-9732411-4-4 - Opus III: A Conspiracy in XV Variations (Aeolus House, 2008) ISBN 978-0-9732411-9-8 - A Verdant Green (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2010), ISBN 978-1-55246-845-6 - Decabration (Beret Days, 2010), ISBN 978-1-897497-40-1 - Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions, 2021) ISBN 978-1-77183-615-9 |
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| Anthologies Edited: - Arborealis (Beret Days, 2008) ISBN 978-0-9783371-5-5 - Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era ..(with Steven Michael Berzensky, Seraphim Editions, 2008) ISBN 978-0-9808879-1-1 |
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- Allan Briesmaster . P.O. Box 53031 ..Royal Orchard Postal Station ..10 Royal Orchard Blvd. ..Thornhill ON L3T 3C0 - email Allan |
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