Literatures, Communities, and Learning

By Aubrey Jean Hanson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and ...

'Membering Austin Clarke

Edited by Paul Barrett
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.

Despite being one ...

mahikan ka onot

By Duncan Mercredi
Edited by Warren Cariou
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in ...

Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Autobiography

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Archival Studies, Cultural Studies

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, ...

The Next Instalment

By Wendy Roy
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What happens next?

That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Ethnography, Art, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Post-glacial

By Robert Kroetsch
Edited by David Eso
Afterword by Aritha van Herk
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ...

Avant Canada

Edited by Gregory Betts & Christian Bök
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen ...