The Poet in the 21st Century
The Place of the Poet in the 21st Century by Todd Swift
"The place of the poet seems to narrow towards that of curate’s egg, or that of political refugee, at just the moment when the first-wave media (film, radio, TV), which primarily unsettled the above-mentioned literate society’s covenant with poems, are themselves about to be flooded by digital, computer-based multimedia forms."
Interview with Christian Bök
Interview with Nicole Brossard
Interview with Nicole Brossard: On Translation & Other Such Pertinent Subjects
Marcella Durand
"You write one word, one sentence and you let it move through visual, homophonic, semantic resemblance, connotation. Most of the words have three, four, five meanings."
Interview with bill bisset
Interview with bill bisset by Adeena Karasick on Readme
"implikates th grammar spellings changing as nuance implikaysyuns shift altr retain its theyr xpressiv being"
BAIT TAKEN:
A Response to Carmine Starnino’s Review of Shift & Switch
By Katherine Parrish
click here to read the review/essay at Canadian notes & queries
Canadian notes and queries has also posted Carmine Starnino's original review of switch & shift
and Carmine Starnino's reply to Kartherine Parrish's response.
The Trouble with Normal
The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire II, Pissing Ice and the State of Canadian Poetry
by rob mclennan
"Canadian poetry has become far too big to get a handle on, with huge amounts of writing that have nothing to do with each other, all working from their own individual traditions, which, as they continue, extend further and further apart."
read this well researched and fascinating essay on Poetics.ca
concrete poetry
an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic
by Derek Beaulieu
"Concrete poetry momentarily rejects the idea of a readerly reward for close reading..."
read the essay on ubu webpapers
bpNichol
by Karl Young
"On a personal level, some of his kindness and generosity reflected a strong individual's response to a world that could be frightening, empty, and vicious, as well as a profound expression of acceptance and love of life."
Nathalie Stephens
Interview with Nathalie Stephens on The Danforth Review
"To speak of a line of time is to adhere to a temporal construction that is incessantly belied by things that cannot be accounted for, in and outside of language."
Sandra Alland
Interview with Sandra Alland by Dani Couture on the Northern Poetry Review
"There are many ways to say the same thing, even more ways of interpreting."
Calgarian Poetics
refusing the prairie: radicality and urbanity in Calgarian poetics
by derek beaulieu
lexiconjury
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These tasty bios were sauteed in extra virgin olive oil and sprinkled with hardcore lex lovin' by kitchen master Bill Kennedy and his apprentice a.rawlings. This isn't an essay on poetics, but it is so much fun you just have to read these bios! |
Interview with Robert Kroetsch
"In ways, the North is a beautiful blank page that invites our scribbling."
click here to read the interview by j. kinsgston pierce in January Magazine
Visual Poetry in Canada
VISUAL POETRY IN CANADA:
BIRNEY, BISSETT, AND bp
Jack David
from: Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 2.2 1977
click here to read the essay on Studies in Canadian Literature
The Vehicule Poets and Second Generation Postmodernism
THE VEHICULE POETS AND SECOND GENERATION POSTMODERNISM: