File contains a signed copy of The Deer is Thirsty for the Mountain Stream: Versions from the Chinese, Japanese and the Book of Psalms, by Allan Cooper (Owl's Head Press, 1992).
File contains correspondence between various persons, including Stanley A. Cowan, Robert D. Tennant Jr., Cindy Fitzherbert, Henry S. Whittier, Elaine K. Boychuk, Charles A. Armour, Gleen Willmott, Lesley Choyce, Tania Theriault, Sharon A. Doucette, Bruce Greenfield, and Patricia A. Divine.
File contains BSPS membership application leaflet/application forms, subscription leaflet/form for Poetry Halifax Dartmouth, and 1989 Nova Scotia Poetry Awards Anthology order form, as well as a change of address notice.
File contains BSPS correspondence regarding society memberships and affiliated associations, including the Atlantic Publishers Association, Purple Wednesday Society, League of Canadian Poets, Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, Kalamalka New Writers Society, and the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market.
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).
Series includes Owl's Head Press correspondence with the Bank of Montreal regarding their trade name and manuscripts and print publications: After the Image, by Jonathan Wright; Ten Poems of Francis Ponge, translated by Robert Bly; Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge, by Robert Bly; Where the Fields End, by Leigh Faulkner; and The Guest Touches Only Those Who Prepare, by Edward Gates.
Subseries contains partial and full annotated drafts, photographs, and published works by Owl's Head Press, including Jonathan Wright's "After the Image," Robert Bly's "Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly & Ten Poems by Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge," Leigh Faulkner's "Where the Fields End," and Edward Gates' "The Guest Touches Only Those Who Prepare."
File includes correspondence of the BSPS regarding contest entries and articles, and between the National Library of Canada, the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, Revenue Canada, the Department of Tourism and Culture, Canada Post Corporation, and the Maritime Provinces Education Foundation.
File contains correspondence about Nova Scotia poets submitting work to the Vancouver chapter of CPA, as well as a Bourbon Street Poetry Society (BSPS) journal featuring Vancouver CPA poets.
Series contains documentation pertaining to the administration of the Bourbon Street Poetry Society, including business cards/letterheads, biographical information, certificates of incorporation, memorandum of association, letters of resignation, resumes, general meetings minutes and motions, and financial final reports.
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.
