One Zero Zero     A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044 Timeline     Books     Authors     Presses     Resources     Search     home Presses House of Anansi (1967-1974) Anansi (1975- ) Toronto Dennis Lee and Dave Godfrey Named after the African spider-god, House of Anansi was founded in 1967 by Dave Godfrey and Dennis Lee to accommodate what Raymond Souster referred to as "the new explosion" in Canadian writing in the 1960s. In some ways it was inspired by Contact Press's inability to reprint Margaret Atwood's The Circle Game, which got Anansi off to a good start by garnering that year's Governor General's Award for poetry. 1967          Kingdom of Absence, Dennis Lee 1967          The Circle Game, Margaret Atwood [reprint of Contact Press/1966] 1967          Magic From My Lungs, Barry Charles 1968          The United STates of Heaven, Douglas Fetherling 1968          Civil Elegies, Dennis Lee 1968          Winter of the Luna Moth, Joe Rosenblatt 1969          The Gangs of Kosmos, George Bowering 1969          You Used to Like My Pies, Barry Charles 1969          Year of the Quiet Sun, Ian Young 1970          The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje 1970          The Happy Hungry Man, George Jonas 1971          nobody owns th earth, bill bissett 1971          Power Politics, Margaret Atwood 1972          Incisions, Robert Flanagan 1973          The Antiphonary, Hubert Aquin, Alan Brown trans. 1973          Waterloo Express, Paulette Jiles 1973          Cities, George Jonas 1973          Crusoe, Eli Mandel 1974          Beware the Months of Fire, Patrick Lane 1974          Poems Selected Old and New, P.K. Page 1975          The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski 1976          War and Other Measures, Gary Geddes 1976          Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje 1977          Savage Fields: An Essay in Literature and Cosmology, Dennis Lee 1978          Heaven, Don Domanski 1979          Empire, York Street, Erin Mouré 1981          Wake-Pick Poems, Kristjana Gunnars 1982          War in an Empty House, Don Domanski 1983          Wanted Alive, Erin Mouré 1984          Canadian Poetry Now: 20 poets of the 80s, edited by Ken Norris 1985          Domestic Fuel, Erin Mouré 1985          When the Stones Fly Up, Dale Zieroth