Fierce Departures

By Dionne Brand
Edited by Leslie C. Sanders
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The selections in Fierce Departures, drawn from Dionne Brand’s work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates peoples of the African diaspora, how nations, concretely ...

Blues and Bliss

By George Elliott Clarke
Edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s ...

The Agent in the Margin

By Clara A.B. Joseph
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—the first woman president of the United ...

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography

By Christl Verduyn
Edited by Eleanor Ty
Subjects: Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography explores some of the latest developments in the literary and cultural practices of Canadians of Asian heritage. While earlier work by ethnic, multicultural, ...

All These Roads

Afterword by Frank Davey
By Louis Dudek
Edited by Karis Shearer
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through ...

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand

By M. Travis Lane
Edited by Jeanette Lynes
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace ...

The Last Effort of Dreams

Edited by Francesco Loriggio
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

When Pier Giorgio Di Cicco first appeared on the Canadian literary scene in the early 1980s, he was immediately recognized as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. The Last Effort of Dreams ...

Trans.Can.Lit

By Smaro Kamboureli
Edited by Roy Miki
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based ...

Earthly Pages

By Don Domanski
Edited by Brian Bartlett
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, ...

By Word of Mouth

By Dennis Cooley
Edited by Nicole Markotic
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other ...