Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

Selection of poems from both critically-acclaimed poets and poets whose work has not previously been published. Represents a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged from the 1960s to 2000 as portrayed in the works of Lee Maracle, Rita Joe, Wayne Keon and many others.

Include early Canadian poets, such as C.D. Shanly and R.A. Faulkner; prominent Confederation poets (Bliss Carman, among others), and women poets (Tekahionwake, also known as E. Pauline Johnson).

The anthology provides insight into how early Canada looked and felt to newcomers, evolving attitudes about Canadian identity, and the early canonization of the nation’s literature.

In 1969 and 1970, Toppings recorded sixteen prominent Canadian writers and poets, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, Hugh Garner, and Al Purdy, captured in in the interviews and accompanying readings, giving insight into their prose and poetry.

This book porvides transcripts of the spoken interviews, complemented by brief biographies and bibliographies.

A collection of verse from the men and women who experienced the first great war of the twentieth century, which includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Marjorie Pickthall, Helena Coleman, and Robert Service, among many others.

The collection documents the historic heritage of Black Canadian poets: George Elliott Clarke, Ian Keteku, Lillian Allen, Afua Cooper, Olive Senior, Frederick Ward, Lorna Goodison, Tanya Evanson, Pamela Mordecai, Harold Head, and many others.

The poems in the anthology are derived from oral and written sources.

A collection of poetry from numerous nineteenth and twentieth-century Canadian poets, including Isabella Valancy Crawford, John McCrae, Archibald Lampman, Irving Layton, F.R. Scott, E.J. Pratt, Marjorie Pickthall, Margaret Avison, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Janis Rapoport, and numerous others.

Digitized contemporary recordings of Canada’s most acclaimed poets, reading from their works. The poems are transcribed and are accompanied by images of the poets.

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian poetic and literary history, including modernist poetry and the developments in Canadian poetry since 1960.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
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A comprehensive introduction to major poetms, forms and topics in Canadian poetry.

PR9184.3 .C34 2017
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A complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings, with an emphasis on literary, poetic, and dramatic works published since the 1960s.

Analyzes the emergence of multicultural and Indigenous writing, popular literature, nature-writing, life-writing, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history.

PR9184.6 .C26 2009
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A bilingual bibliography of critical works on English language and French language poets, published in the 1970s.

The poets are listed alphabetically with entries for general works on the poet followed by analyses for specific collections of poems, and occasionally, criticism for specific poems.

A bibliography that traces the effects of “modernism” on English Canadian poetry of the twentieth century. The early chapters list reference sources including bibliographies, theses, manuscript collections, Canadian poetry journals, critical studies and major anthologies of poems.

The next chapters group poets chronologically by flourishing dates, and provide references to publications by individual poets and criticisms of their work.

A collection of lectures by prominent Canadian poets (including Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, A.F. Moritz, George Elliott Clarke and others) on the form, genre, and the purpose of poetry.

Examines the major Canadian poets in four chronological blocks: the Victorian poets “the pioneers,” “the modernists,” “the inheritors,” and the “poet-novelists”.

These include Roberts, Carman, Lampman, Campbell Scott, Pratt, Klein, Birney, Layton, LePan, Cohen, Ondaatje, MacEwen, Atwood and Helwig.

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A collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years, from the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard.

Also explores intersection of Canadian avant-gardisms and Indigenous decolonization and discusses topics such as the relationship between Canadian and Indigenous literatures, cultural appropriation, gender and the Conceptual Writing movement.

PR9193.7 .A93 2019
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Presents a revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth Brewster, Jay Macpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott, and Elizabeth Smart.

Numbers 80 and 81 (Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter 2017). A special issue of the journal Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews, published to honour the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Margaret Avison.

It contains two essays written by the poet, an introduction by the editor, memoirs, poems, critical analysis of her work and legacy, and an updated bibliography.

Traces the rise and disappearance of Canadian First World War poetry, and offers a striking and comprehensive account of its varied and vexing poetic gestures.

The book also focuses on the poetic interpretations of the Canadian soldier. The volume examines the poetry of Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E. Ross.

PR9190.9 .W68 B34 2018
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Traci, a cultural geographer, explores how reading poetry influences the way we see the Prairies.

PR9198.2 .P7 T74 2016
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Includes articles on the study of poetry Canada from all regions and periods. Peer-reviewed.

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Includes articles, interviews and commentaries on Canadian writing. Peer-reviewed.

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Includes articles on a wide range of studies on Canada: literature, arts, architecture, anthropology, community planning, culture, the economy, education, history, Indigenous issues, politics and public affairs, and sociology. Peer-reviewed.

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