The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that Paul Vermeersch, Professor of Publishing, has been awarded a grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Paul has received this prestigious $12,000 Works in Progress grant for the completion of his upcoming book of poetry, currently titled Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy. Scheduled to be published in Fall 2018 with ECW Press, the book will explore themes of evolution, devolution and mutation, both cultural and biological, and will feature poems about future dystopias and the occult, metapoetics, and atomic-age nursery rhymes.
Congratulations Paul!