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 ...

Unsettling Narratives

By Clare Bradford
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Children’s Literature

Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position ...

Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation

By Peter Melville
Subjects: Literary Criticism

What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through ...

Children of the Outer Dark

By Christopher Dewdney
Edited by Karl E. Jirgens
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining ...

Desire Never Leaves

By Tim Lilburn
Edited by Alison Calder
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition ...

Field Marks

By Don McKay
Edited by Méira Cook
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, ...

Speaking of Power

By Di Brandt
Edited by Tanis MacDonald
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and ...

The More Easily Kept Illusions

Afterword by Russell Morton Brown
By Al Purdy
Edited by Robert Budde
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and ’70s poet. The ...