One Zero Zero     A Virtual Library of English Canadian Small Press 1945 - 2044 Timeline     Books     Authors     Presses     Resources     Search     home Presses Island Press (1964-67) Toronto Victor Coleman Victor Coleman founded Island Press in 1964, with writer and television producer Michael Spivack, after contacting Raymond Souster and corresponding with such U.S. writers as Paul Blackburn, Cid Corman, Robert Kelly and Louis Zukofsky. Coleman was also a frequent visitor to Buffalo, New York, where the State University was virtually recreating Black Mountain College through the presence of such writers as Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, LeRoi Jones, John Wieners and Gregory Corso. Coleman was also visting Detroit at the time where contact was made, through the Detroit Artists' Workshop with John Sinclair, George Tysh and Ron Caplan. Island Press suspended its activities when Coleman became editor at the new Coach House Press under the direction of Stan Bevington. 1965     Lardeau, Fred Wah 1965     The Knife, Stephen Rodefer 1965     From Erik Satie's Notes to the Music, Victor Coleman