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                                                     switch and shift                     
New Canadian Poetry
edited by derek beaulieu, Jason Christie & Angela Rawlings

The Mercury Press, Toronto; 2005

Surreal Estate               
13 Canadian poets under the influence
edited by Stuart Ross

The Mercury Press, Toronto; 2004

                                  Esprit de Corps            
Quebec Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century in Translation
edited by Louise Blouin, Bernard Posier, D.G. Jones

The Muse's Company/Ecrits des Forges; 1997

W)here? The Other Canadian Poetry
edited by Eldon Garnet
Press Porcepic, 1974

Originally published in (Imp)ulse magazine Volume 3, Numbers 3&4, 1974. Later issued by (Imp)ulse as a perfect bound book, and then published by Press Porcepic as the anthology W)here? The Other Canadian Poetry with critical commentary. Contents: david uu, Joe Rosenblatt, bpNichol, Daphne Marlattt, Gerry Gilbert, Maxine Gadd, David Dawson, Frank Davey, David Cull, Judith Copithorne, Victor Coleman, bill bissett, Nelson Ball.

Click here to read an article about the origins of the Toronto art scene magazine Impulse by founder and editor, Eldon Garnet.

 Writing in Our Time - Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003)
                                   by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy
                                   Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction.

To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s.

The poetics explored include the works of Nicole Brossard, Daphne Martlatt, bpNichol, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Frank Davey in the 1960s and ’70s. For the 1980-2000 period, the authors include essays on Jeff Derksen, Claire Harris, Erin Mouré, and Lisa Robertson. They also look at books by older authors published after 1979, including Robin Blaser, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah.

A historiography of the radical poets, and a roster of the little magazines, small press publishers, literary festivals, and other such sites that have sustained poetic experimentation, provide context.

Read a review at The Rain Review of Books

Foreword by Molly Peacock

Persea Books

a mixture of mainstream and alternative poetry
Includes Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Erin Mouré, Lisa Robertson, Ken Babstock, George Elliot Clark, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, Jan Zwicky, Nicole Broussard, Dione Brand, Christopher Dewdney, Susanne Goyette, Denis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Michael Ondaantje, Fred Wah, and others.
(click here to read a review by rob mclennan)

Poems for the Millenium  
The University of California Book of Modern and PostModern Poetry
Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium
edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California; 1998

shortfuse, the global anthology of new fusion poetry

edited by Phil Norton & Todd Swift
Rattapallax, New York, 2002