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 poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics.
Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of ""poetics"" as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets.
This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.
Show morePublic 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 poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics.
Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of ""poetics"" as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets.
This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.
Show moreBart Vautour is an assistant professor at Dalhousie
University. His research considers Canadian cultural production,
literary history, textual studies, and modernism. He is the editor
of a critical edition of Ted Allan's Spanish Civil War novel, This
Time a Better Earth (2015). He co-directs, with Emily Robins
Sharpe, the Canada and the Spanish Civil War project.
Erin Wunker is the chair of the board of the national
non-profit social justice organization Canadian Women in the
Literary Arts (CWILA) and co-founder, writer, and managing editor
of the feminist academic blog Hook and Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow
Academe. She teaches Canadian literature and culture at Dalhousie
University. Her book The Feminist Killjoy Handbook will be
published in the fall of 2016.
Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism and postcolonial and
Canadian literatures. He received both a Mellon and Killam
Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the author of Ornithologies of
Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay (WLU
Press, 2013).
Christl Verduyn is a professor of English and Canadian
Studies at Mount Allison University, where she holds the Davidson
Chair in Canadian Studies and is the director of the Centre for
Canadian Studies. Most recent publications include Asian Canadian
Writing Beyond Autoethnography, co-edited with Eleanor Ty (WLU
Press, 2008), Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-Telling Stories in
a Changing Landscape, co-edited with Kathleen Garay (2011), and
Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis, co-edited with Jane
Koustas (2012).
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