Millennial Report on Independent Letters
By: anonymous
Edition: First: 32 copies
Publisher: Letters
Published: 2000 [31 January]
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Format: Perfect bound
Number of pages: 88
Work titles: book history
Description: A recollection of the Independent Press movement through the final quarter of the 20th century, in defiance of the stricture against self-published books, which remain excluded by consensus from the official Canadian litry canon and from consideration by most juries convened to recognize and reward litry merit: Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award; Canada Council Molson Prize; Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards; Marian Engel Award; Matt Cohen Prize; Governor General's Literary Awards; Griffin Poetry Prize; Prix Athanase-David; Prix Gilles-Corbeil; Prix Trillium; Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; Scotiabank Giller Prize; Stephen Leacock Award For Humour; Timothy Findley Award; Trillium Book Award; and the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize. (The Milton Acorn / Ted Plantos Poetry Award comes to mind as one of the more conspicuous exceptions to this unconscionable conceit.) The ludicrous presumptions of an increasingly irrelevant Middle Management in control of the machinery of cultural accreditation, thankfully continue to deflate in an age of increasing access to intercourse. THE POWER OF THE PRESS BELONGS TO THOSE WHO OWN ONE: A.J. Liebling.
Notes: Colophon gives 31 December 1999.