Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics - TransCanada

Publisher Marketing: "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. "

Contributor Bio:  Vautour, Bart Bart 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. Contributor Bio:  Wunker, Erin Erin Wunker is the chair of the board of Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA). She has taught at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, Dalhousie University, and Mount Allison University. She co-founded, co-edits, and contributes to the blog "Hook & Eye: Fast Feminism, Slow Academe."Contributor Bio:  Mason, Travis V 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). Contributor Bio:  Verduyn, Christl Christl Verduyn teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies and is the coordinator of the Canadian Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. She publishes on Canadian and Qu?b?cois women s writing, multiculturalism and minority writing, and life writing. She is the editor of "Marian Engel s Notebooks: Ah, mon cahier, ?coute... " (WLU Press, 1999).