The Contemporary Leonard Cohen

Edited by Joel Deshaye & Kait Pinder
Subjects: Poetry, Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art.
The death of Leonard ...

Land/Relations

By Larissa Lai, Smaro Kamboureli
Edited by Larissa Lai, and Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: TransCanada

Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today. ...

DisPlace

Afterword by Chris Dunton
By Nduka Otiono
Edited by Peter Midgley
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions ...

Reliving the Trenches

Edited by Alan Filewod
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Life Writing, History, Canadian History, Military History

In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical ...

On the Other Side(s) of 150

Edited by Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories ...

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, ...