Nancy Shaw born May 24th, 1962, died early Monday morning April 16th,
2007. A founding member of the Kootenay School of Writing in
Vancouver, Shaw authored Affordable Tedium (Tsunami 1991) and
Scoptocratic (ECW Press 1992). She also collaborated on several
chapbooks with Catriona Strang, including Busted (Coach House Books
2001, http://www.chbooks.com.) and most recently Cold Trip (Nomados
2006). In addition, Shaw was a visual artist, curator and wrote for
various art catalogues.

A service will be held in Vancouver at St.Andrew's-Wesley Church,
1022 Nelson Ave. at 1:00 PM, Saturday April 21, 2007. Instead of
flowers, please donate to the BC Cancer Fund.

I should have been listening
To every word you sang
Rapt pious chant
[from Cold Trip]

Other publications include:

"McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse Glenn Wilmot"
Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 21, No. 1. 1999.
http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=511&layout=html


"The Method is the Message: Rethinking McLuhan Through Critical Theory"
Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 24, No. 1. 1999.
http://www.cjc-online.ca/viewarticle.php?id=510&layout=abstract


Alan Gilbert to Nancy Shaw, Notes on Cultural Poetics.
Open Letter Eleventh Series, No. 3, Fall 2001
http://slought.org/files/downloads/publications/openletter/03a.pdf


"Cloning Scapegoats Martha Stewart Does Insider Trading"
Social Text 21.4 (2003) 51-67
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text/v021/21.4shaw.html