Our History

From 1990 -1994 we published a small international literary periodical called (m)Öthêr Tøñgués that featured: Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya, Adriana Batista, Stacy Creamer, Erin Moure, Thich Tue Sy, bill bissett, Roma Potiki, Kim Morrissey, Yuki Hartman, Tsvetanka Sofronieva, Elizabeth Allen, Dorothy Livesay, Joyce Parkes, Duo Duo, Margaret Pinney, Ann Diamond, Willie Ka Tshaka, Mark Sutherland, Jane Covernton, Sharon Negri, Ronnie R. Brown, Kim Chi-Ha, Li Min Hua, Memoye Abijah Ogu, Deena Padayachee, Hans Raimund, Loreina Santos Silva, Fritzi Harmsen Van Beek, Nam Hunt, Tanya Lester, Ioannidou-Stavrou, Antonio D’Alfonso, Artuo Arias, John Barlow, Dorin Tudoran, Sandi Johnson, Muriel Karr, Rhonda Wauhkonen, Mercedes Roffe, Anne Burke, Sigitas Geda, Tim Lander, Liliane Welch, Marie Luise Kashnitz, Tom Savage, D.C. Reid, Marosa Di Giorio, Mark Warrior, Han Shan, Zoe Landale, Eugenio Montale, Richard Trumball and more

In 1994 we began publishing beautiful limited edition chapbooks of Canadian poetry and since then have published 28 letter-pressed poetry chapbooks and broadsides by Canadian poets; Stephanie Bolster, Lorna Crozier, Kate Braid, Cathy Ford, Maxine Gadd, Shirley Graham, Penn Kemp, Robert Kroetsch, Sylvia Legris, Peter Levitt, Daphne Marlatt, Susan McCaslin, P.K. Page, Murray Reiss, Nadine Shelly, Peter Such, Phyllis Webb and Patricia Young.

Most of our publications employed handmade endpaper, beautiful cover stock, recycled paper, embossing, letterpress printing, handsewing, non-adhesive binding, tipped in photographs of paintings, signed and numbered. All were labour intensive and mostly created in-house.

All of our chapbooks had letterpress covers and most had beautiful original linocuts created by Peter Haase.

We have also held book art, letterpress and writing workshops, organized readings, book launches, and inspired others to start their own presses.

For more (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Presš history read an article  by Richard Hopkins published in Amphora, or view this article* from Open Letter by Meredith Quartermain.

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