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XEclogue

By (author) Lisa Robertson
Categories: Poetry

First issued by Tsunami Editions in 1993, XEclogue is an exploration of the pleasures of the pastoral poetry from a late-twentieth-century feminist perspective. Robertson, the Governor General's Award ...

Literary Pluralities

Literary Pluralities is a collection of essays on the connections between literature and society in Canada, focusing on the topics of race, ethnicity, language, and cultures.

The essays explore a nexus ...

Bolder flights

A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of ...

Wheel and Come Again

Edited by Kwame Dawes
Categories: Poetry

The beat and language of reggae arose from the Jamaican countryside and the sidewalks of Kingston, but they’re basic for the poets represented in Wheel and Come Again. This remains true even though ...

Anderson Ruffin Abbott

Anderson Ruffin Abbott graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1861, and became the first Canadian of African descent to train as a physician. Abraham Lincoln appointed him one ...