In 1985, Anderson founded Dial-A-Poem Montreal, a free, 24-hour telephone hotline that users could call to hear a different poem each day, usually read by its author.
In 1987, Anderson collaborated with writer Ian Ferrier and illustrator Phillip MacKenzie to publish The Heart of the Machine, an electronic interactive serial novel accessible through one of several information services that users would have to dial up from their computers.
[6] For a number of years Anderson worked as a business agent for the Directors Guild of Canada.
Anderson's poem, mainly about activities and emotions in daily life, were rendered by Gilardino through creative typography followed by digital alteration.
[11] His 2012 release, Annunciations, a book with three audio CDs, was aired on campus and community radio.