Poetry

More outspoken criticism from one of the 'attack dogs of Canadian Literature'.

Why should the art of poetry be a mystery? Through friendly discussion and examples, A Magical Clockwork reveals the subtle mechanisms to make your poems sing, from imagery, through pattern and sound, to vision.

Reading against the grain of global ideological flows, Derksen demonstrates how borders, identities, national literatures, urban territories, built space and the spaces of culture and politics have not simply been eroded by globalization, but how the traditional identity-determined scales of culture are being re-imagined as contested spaces for dyn …

Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet preoccupied with the workings of time. He was also a thinker with a mystical predisposition. His goal, however, was not to transcend time, but to find redemptive meaning within it. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress explores the …

This ground-breaking study explores the treatment of the boundaries between poetry and history in three epic literary works: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Samuel Daniel's Civil Wars, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. David Galbraith argues that each of the three national poems enters into a dialogue with classical and more contemporary predecessors and …