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Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the early 20th century and forward to the contemporary, Earth and Heaven gathers voices and stories as it moves through "four ages" of mythic history. This collection tells a story of its own about the stories we tell each other.
Featuring poems by:
• Harry Thurston,
• Daniel David Moses,
• Douglas LePan,
• Gwendolyn...
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Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in Ontario's Niagara Region. A community conversation about our complicated relationship with emancipation and the human right to be free, Freedom: A Mixtape is a compilation album that is part protest and...
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This is a book about women and ageism. There are twenty-nine contributing writers, ranging in age from their forties to their nineties. Through essays, short stories, and poetry, they share their distinct opinions, impressions, and speculations on aging and ageism, and their own growth as, people. In these thoughtful, fierce, and funny works, the writers show their belief in women and the aging process.
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Given that Canada has the longest coastline in the world and its motto is "From Sea unto Sea," it is not surprising that virtually every Canadian writer has been inspired to write about some aspect of the sea at some point in their work. As this book shows, those watery passages are some of the very best writing the nation has produced. Journeying coast to coast to coast, from the picturesque and isolated Vancouver Island village of Ucluelet, through...
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Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders. They are tied together through a simultaneous call for resistance-to Eurocentrism, corporatization, rationalism,...
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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard's work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas. Their...
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Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, cafés, and salons of Montparnasse, those who stayed such as Brion Gysin and Mavis Gallant, those who returned "home" such as Morley Callaghan, John Glassco, David Silverberg, and Sheila Watson, and those who galvanized local cultural...
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Hamilton Now - Subject / Object is the stunning exhibition accompanying a two-part exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2018 / 2019 edited by AGH curator Melissa Bennett. Hamilton Now comments on the exploding art scene in this burgeoning Ontario city through stunning images from 17 of the city's contemporary artists. The work of artists in this two part-exhibition explores current cultural issues such as identity and materiality. Race issues,...
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This collection focuses on Lowry's spatial dynamics, from the psychogeography of the Letterist and the Situationist International, through musical forms (especially jazz), cinema, photography, and spatialpoetic writing, to the spaces of exception, bio-politics, and the creaturely. It presents previously unpublished essays by both established and new international Lowry scholars, as well as innovative ways of conceiving of his aesthetic practice.
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This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. With contributions from a wide range of participants who have played seminal roles as editors of Canadian literatures-from nineteenth-century works to the contemporary avant-garde, from canonized texts to anthologies of so-called minority writers and the oral literatures of the First Nations-this collection...
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Intégrer les archives d'un écrivain – ses carnets, son journal personnel, sa correspondance, les avant-textes de ses œuvres publiées, voire ses notes de lecture – dans l'analyse de son œuvre canonique permet, on le sait, d'éclairer celle-ci autrement, d'en dégager un sens jusque-là inaccessible. Au Canada, même si quelques initiatives d'envergure se sont développées au cours des vingt dernières années, le versant francophone des archives...
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This collection presents all of Earle Birney's known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney's letters and literary writings.
Before he became one of Canada's most influential and popular twentieth century poets, Earle Birney lived a double life. To his students and colleagues, he was an engaging university lecturer and scholar. But for...
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Finaliste, Prix du Canada 2018, Fédération des sciences humaines
Lucie Hotte et François Paré ont réuni des études qui témoignent du dynamisme de l'activité littéraire franco-canadienne marquée par l'histoire, mais aussi représentative de l'image que chacune des collectivités se fait d'elle-même et de son avenir. Les œuvres analysées illustrent la recherche esthétique d'une grande originalité, menée par les écrivains franco-canadiens...
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Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing "publics," "poetry," and "poetics" from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as "publics" in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside...
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A Cup of Roses, Stories by 8 Writers brims with tales of joy, passion, humor, tragedy, history, food writing and poetry. These compelling narratives will surprise and provoke the reader to view life through unexpected perspectives.
In 2012, award winning author and artist Ruth Frankel-Graner formed a writer's group in Toronto. When Ruth suddenly died, author Fiona Gold Kroll assumed the helm and began the process of bringing Ruth's dream of publishing...
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The eleventh issue of a digital journal created to alleviate the malaise of social distancing with exceptional writing and artwork.
The Quarantine Review celebrates literature and art, connecting readers through reflections on the human condition-our lived experiences, afflictions, and dreams. Through The Quarantine Review, Dupuis and Sarfraz give voice to the swirling emotions inside each of us, to create a circuit of empathy between the reader,...
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The twelfth installment of Best Canadian Essays speaks with striking prescience to our contemporary moment.
"This book-like most that have found their way into the world this fall-began life in the Before Times," writes editor Sarmishta Subramanian. Written and first published by leading magazines and journals in 2019, the essays selected here speak with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. From health concerns both global and individual;...
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"The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope." -The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon, Cora Siré. Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting-for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption. This collection of thirty-two personal essays is as much about hope as it is about waiting. Featuring literary voices from the renowned to the emerging, this...
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As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.
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