Mary Dalton’s 2020 Pratt Lecture engages with the vernacular voice in Newfoundland poetry, illustrating the move from uncertainty to acceptance and welcoming of the beauty and variety of the language ...

In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E. J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And ...

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements from the past 50 years. From the works of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol ...

Desire Lines features an eclectic collection of Toronto writer/poet Ewan Whyte’s astute essays and reviews on art, poetry, and culture, both high and low. Among the subjects included: the Roman poet ...

A critical look at Prince Edward Island writer J. J. Steinfeld’s extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction, and theatre, ranging from his early work on Holocaust themes to his later examinations ...

Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predisposition. ...

Reading against the grain of global ideological flows, Derksen demonstrates how borders, identities, national literatures, urban territories, built space and the spaces of culture and politics have not ...

The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of "replicating" in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. ...

Language Acts brings together twenty provocative essays on the state of English-language poetry in Québec since 1976. Born and raised during this historically resonant period of Trudeauism, organized ...

More outspoken criticism from one of the ‘attack dogs of Canadian Literature’.