Susan McMaster
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Susan McMaster is a Canadian poet, literary editor, and spoken word performer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Susan McMaster's recent book, Waging Peace, collects the poetry, art, and texts from Convergence: Poems for Peace, which presented art-wrapped poems from across Canada to all MPs and Senators in 2001. She's published poetry books, wordmusic, performance poetry recordings, and scripts; edited collections and series; founded Vernissage, the magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and the national feminist magazine Branching Out (1973-); and was an original member of the intermedia group First Draft, (1981-), with members including Andrew McClure and Colin Morton.
Since 1996, she has been the wordsmith in Geode Music & Poetry (formerly SugarBeat), recording two spoken word and music CDs with Jennifer Giles on keyboards, Alrick Huebener on bass, and friends including Penn Kemp, Dave Broscoe, Jamie Gullikson, Mike Essoudry, Petr Cancura, and John Higney, and performing at 50-plus venues including the National Library, Kingston Fringe Jazz Festival, Rasputin's, Blue Skies Music Festival, Ottawa Folk Festival, Elora Music Festival, Artscape, and Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Susan works six months each year as an editor of art catalogues for the National Gallery of Canada. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, PEN (Canada), the Writers' Trust, SOCAN, Access copyright, the Musician's Union, the Ottawa Independent Writers and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Her new poetry collection is forthcoming from Black Moss Press in 2004, as is her next spoken word CD with Geode.
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Selected publications
- Pass this way again (with First Draft, 1983).
- Dark Galaxies. (Ouroboros, 1986).
- North/South (with First Draft). (Underwhich Editions, 1987).
- Dangerous Graces: Women's Poetry on Stage (editor). (Balmuir Publishing, 1987).
- Wordmusic (audiotape, with First Draft, 1986).
- The Hummingbird Murders. (Quarry Press, 1992). ISBN 1-55082-048-6.
- Learning to Ride. (Quarry Press, 1994). ISBN 1-55082-104-0.
- Dangerous Times. (audiotape, with SugarBeat, 1996).
- Uncommon Prayer. (Quarry Press, 1997). ISBN 1-55082-196-2.
- Siolence: Poets on Women, Violence and Silence (editor). (Quarry Press, 1997).
- SugarBeat Music & Poetry (CD, SugarBeat 1998).
- Geode Music & Poetry, (CD, Geode, 2000). ISBN 0-9687191-0-4.
- Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action, editor (Penumbra Press, Manotick, 2002). ISBN 1-894131-37-1.
- La Deriva del Pianeta/World Shift, translations into Italian by Ada Donati (Schifanoia Editore, 2003). ISBN 88-87882-30-4.
- Until the Light Bends (Black Moss Press, forthcoming 2004).
- Geode Live Room, (CD, working title, forthcoming 2004).
Selected anthologies
- Celebrating Canadian Women. Ed. Greta Hofmann Nemiroff (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989).
- A Room at the Heart of Things. Ed. Elisabeth Harvor (Vehicule, 1999).
- Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport. Eds. Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden. (Human Kinetics, 1999).
- Line by Line: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. Ed. and with drawings by Heather Spears (Ekstasis Editions, 2002).
- Nth. Eds. Carolyn Creed, Fred Wah (Sage Hill Fall Poetry Colloquium, 2003).
- The Lunar Plexus. Aut. Penn Kemp (PsychoSpace Sounds, Pendas Productions, 2002). ISBN 1-894715-01-2.
- Two Lips. Aut. Penn Kemp (PsychoSpace Sounds, Pendas Productions, 2001). ISBN 0-920820-35-2.