Fonds consists of correspondence, financial papers, and grant applications for the journal Germination, papers from the Tribune Press (Sackville, New Brunswick) relating to Owl's Head Press, and publications and pamphlets.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Andrew Merkel, including correspondence with friends and associates such as Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood; manuscripts; newspaper clippings; and copies of The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet and The Order of Good Cheer.
Series contains articles and other writings such as speeches, poems, and plays. The types of records included here are drafts, clippings of published articles, copies of publications containing these articles, and some related notes and correspondence.
File includes a letter to children's author Claire MacKay and copies of publications that include stories by Joyce Barkhouse, including Hi Venture magazine and the Canadian Children's Literature journal. The file also includes photographs of Blomidon, King's County, Nova Scotia and the Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in addition to copies of poems, birthday invitations, an edited biography of Joyce Barkhouse from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia website, and family history documents.
File contains three BS Poetry Society newsletters (October 1988; March 1989; December 1989); one BS Poetry Society publication (1989 Nova Scotia Poetry Awards Anthology); two publications in affiliation with Joe Blades (Reflections, 1987; New Muse of Contempt, 1988); and a New Muse of Contempt publication (Great Expectations, vol.3, no.2, 1990).
Fonds consists of poetry journals, drafts, submissions, correspondence, meeting minutes, and event posters regarding the BS Poetry Society, and photographs of BS Poetry Society events.
Series contains one copy of each journal produced by the BSPS, which began with its first issue as the Bourbon Street Journal, then became BSPS Journal, before being renamed Poetry Halifax Dartmouth in 1988.
File contains two copies of Volume 1, Number 1 of Fathom, a creative writing journal published by the Dalhousie University Department of English. File also contains two copies of Volume 1, Number 2.
File contains a draft of a poem by Budge Wilson, written for her daughter Glynnis, and a copy of it as published in the journal Canadian Woman Studies.
Item is a copy of In the Offing: A Tribute to Bliss Carman, which was printed for private circultion by The Abanaki Press in Halifax in June 1929. It was considered the thirteenth number of The Song Sheet and dedicated to Carman. Table of contents include: The sea gypsy / Richard Hovey. -- In the offing / Bliss Carman. -- Reinforcement for the city under the star / Charles Bruce. -- Flood tide / Ethel H. Butler. -- Go, lank rover / Kenneth Leslie. -- What new wonders / Andrew Merkel. The issue includes a small original photograph pasted to the first page and a printed photograph of Bliss Carman taken by M.O. Hammon attached to the back cover.
Item consists of the 2007 issue of Punoqun: The Wayves Literary Supplement, an insert in the December 2007 issue of Wayves Magazine. Includes literary contributions by Joel Arseneau, Jeff Higgins, Albert McNutt, Donald Noyes, Rebecca Power, Ethan Stillman, Julie Vandervoort, and Mike Wedge.
Item consists of the Summer 1996 issue of Punoqun : The Wayves Literary Supplement, laid into the July-August 1996 issue of Wayves. This is the fourth Punoqun number. Includes contributions from Cindy Illsley, Bob Mellor, Thomas Andrew Ross, Seamus Sullivan, Art Fisher, Amity Loyce, Joe Blades, Donna Ross, and Kevin Crombie.
Item consists of the Summer 1995 issue of Punoqun : The Wayves Literary Supplement, laid into the July-August 1995 issue of Wayves. Includes contributions from Chelsea Winston-Elliott, L. Comeau, Rupert Kent, Gregory Morris, L.D. Little, Matthew York, Art Fisher, Janne Cleveland, Douglas Shears, and Stacie Juan Croucher.
Fonds consists of fiction, non-fiction and poetry manuscripts, one notebook, leaflets and periodicals, newspaper clippings, and a hardcover copy of The Growing Question, a gardening book published by Fillmore in 1957. Materials relate to Fillmore's interests in horticulture and political activism.
Fonds consists of materials regarding Russell B. Zinck's poetry, including poetry manuscripts and newspaper clippings; his notes about politics; and his involvement with the local press. Record types include correspondence, a scrapbook and a notebook containing poem drafts. The fonds also contains a picture by W.M. Schaffuer.
Series contains short stories, both published and unpublished. The types of records included here are drafts, clippings of published articles, copies of publications containing short stories, and related correspondence, research, photographs, and notes.
Item is a copy of issue number one of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an appeal for submissions and a poem by Charles T. Bruce.
Item is a copy of issue number ten of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Charles Bruce, Alexander Louis Fraser, E.H.B., Andrew Merkel, Kenneth Leslie, Joe Wallace and Stewart McCawley, and letters from James D. Gillis, Robert Norwood, Bliss Carman, Martha Ann, J.A. MacGlashen and Seamus O'Brien.
Item is a copy of issue number 11 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Seumas O'Brien, "Mike," Kenneth Leslie, Estelle Fox, Constance L. Coleman, C. MacRae, Nathaniel A. Benson, H.G. McGrath, Alexander Louis Fraser, Pauline B. Barrington, Frank Graham, Ethel Butler, and Bliss Carman; letters from Stuart McCawley and Ross Macaulay; and an announcement regarding the call for poems celebrating Angus McAskill.
Item is a copy of issue number 14 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the winner of the MacAskill-inspired poetry contest and remarks by James Gillis on each entry, which included poems by Robert Leslie, Stuart McCawley (the winner), Joe Wallace, Andrew Merkel, Ethel H. Butler, Michael D, Currie, M. Campbell, Effie MacD Barnes, Katherine F. MacDonald, and Mollie Beresford.
Item is a copy of issue number 15 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the song sheet's upcoming first year anniversary, an essay on the rewards of living in Nova Scotia and having the leisure to think and write, and poems by Robert Leslie and Joe Wallace.
Item is a copy of issue number 16 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains a letter from J.D. Gillis recounting his first visit to Halifax since 1916 in order to attend the Song Fishermen's picnic, and poems by R.V. Bannon, E. Chesley Allen, John Mosher, and Stuart McCawley.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Bob Leslie and Jerry Murphy, an announcement of poetry recitals by Bliss Carman, and a list of those receiving the song sheet.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Virginia Lynne Tunstall, Evelyn Tufts, Noel Wilcox and Molly Beresford, as well as notes from Bliss Carmen and Stuart McCawley.