Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century (Vol.1)
Compiled by Sam McDonald and Roger Farr
Annharte (Marie Baker)
Biography:
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A161
Annharte's profile for the Native American Authors Project.
http://pipl.com/directory/people/Marie/Annharte%2520Baker
A profile of Annharte built on blurbs.
Criticism:
http://www.rainreview.net/rain-010107.html
An assessment of Annharte Baker's work, Exercises in Lip Pointing, by Reg Johanson.
On-line Work:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jw-turner/baker.htm
Two pieces by Annharte: Raced Out To Write This Up and A Woman's Fish-Hook Story
Oana Avasilichioaei
Biography:
http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/avasilichioaei.htm
Poet's profile page at the League of Canadian Poets. Outlines her published work and features a selection of writing.
Audio:
http://www.atwaterlibrary.ca/en/node/98
Avasilichioaei reading from Abandon. This link is to the Atwater Poetry Project, which is coordinated by Oana.
http://www.atwaterlibrary.ca/en/node/655
Oana introducing writer, linguist, and Open Text contributor Claire Huot.
Criticism:
http://poetryreviews.ca/2006/04/05/abandon-by-oana-avasilichioaei/
Review of Abandon by Kris Brandhagen.
On-line Work:
http://jacketmagazine.com/32/k-avas-moure.shtml
Translation work by Avasilichioaei and Erin Moure for Jacket Magazine. An audio file of recordings of the material is also featured.
http://jacketmagazine.com/34/c-avasilichioaei.shtml
Sample from Avasilichioaei's Gossip in the Valley.
George Bowering
Biography:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bowering/
Profile, a selection of poems, and statements on writing.
Audio:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12821079
An audio essay by Bowering entitled Holy Life of the Intellect as part of the NPR program. Discusses his philosophy on creativity and the Other.
Criticism:
http://www.westcoastline.ca/covers/barbourGB.pdf
"George Bowering and the Extended Forms of Poetics", by Douglas Barbour. Critical essay considering Bowering as an essayist. Link to PDF at West Coast Line.
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol9_1/&filename=Knight.htm
"The Dilemma of the Public Critic; or, Does George Bowering Have A WAY WITH WORDS", by Alan R. Knight. Discusses Bowering as "public critic." From Studies in Canadian Literature.
http://bowering.blogspot.com/
"Bowering's Teaching." Collection of notes taken by Aaron Vidaver during a seminar on Postwar American Poetry taught by Bowering at Simon Fraser University in 1995.
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol20/precosky.htm
"Method in Bowering's Allophanes," by Don Precosky.
Interview:
http://www.canadiancontent.ca/issues/0399bowering.html
An interview with by James Hoerner.
On-line Work:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/poet/index.asp?lang=e¶m=3&id=2
A Parliamentary Poet profile that features Bowering's first "official" poem as Laureate, Whatever You Do.
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/7954/9011
Essay by Bowering on Margaret Atwood.
Rob Budde
Biography:
http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/b_profiles/budde_r.html
MAP [Manitoban Author Publication] profile on Budde which includes a bibliography, a list of his awards and is advice to new writers.
Criticism:
http://www.pressforward.com/research/0973542217txt.pdf#page=111
Link to ebook: "Immaculate Retrieval: The Search Ability of Canadian Literary Magazines", featuring an essay by Budde "Rethinking Ink: Debate in Print Production Procedures" (w/ Kelly Wintemute).
http://www.itsstillwinter.com
"The Headwaters of Place: Ken Belford's Ecologue and the New Ecosophers." Link to excellent essay on ecopoetics in the work of fellow Prince George poet Ken Belford.
Interview:
http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/rob_budde.htm
An informative interview with Budde conducted Rob Mclennan by email from December 2003 to August 2006.
On-line Work:
http://writingwaynorth.blogspot.com/
Budde's blog.
http://theculturemill.blogspot.com/
Collaborative blog on Northern poetics, cultural happenings and other events and projects.
http://stonestone.unbc.ca/
Online literary journal edited and run by Rob, at the University of Northern BC.
Louis Cabri
Audio:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Cabri.html
Cabri including at SUNY-Buffalo, February 27, 2003.
http://louis-cabri-introduction-mp3-download.kohit.net/_/53937
Cabri giving an introduction for PhillyTalks in which he considers the function of the introduction in PhillyTalks.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=28&eventchoice=36
Cabri reading poems at the KSW in Robson Square in Vancouver, 1999.
http://www.slought.org/content/11132/
"The Social Mark (I): Poetry Readings" contains a readings and a lengthy discussion between several poets including Cabri and Jeff Derksen.
Criticism:
http://www.pressforward.com/research/0973542217txt.pdf#page=111
Link to ebook: "Immaculate Retrieval: The Search Ability of Canadian Literary Magazines", featuring an essay by Budde "Rethinking Ink: Debate in Print Production Procedures" (w/ Kelly Wintemute).
http://jacketmagazine.com/22/and-cabri.html#f2
"Mere Essay at Bruce Andrews' 'Social'." Essay on Bruce Andrews' I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (or, Social Romanticism) at Jacket Magazine.
http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3179710/
"Social Address and the Modernist Word in Louis Zukofsky, Bruce Andrews, P. Inman." Abstract of Cabri's dissertation.
On-line Work:
http://www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/mood_embosser/index.html
Complete edition of Cabri's book, The Mood Embosser, at Coach House Books.
Peter Culley
Audio:
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=38&eventchoice=52
Peter Culley reading at the KSW on October 18th, 20003. As stated by the webpage, "This recording is from the launch of Peter Culley's book Hammertown."
Criticism:
http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2008/07/peter-culleys-age-of-briggs-stratton.html
Review of The Age of Briggs & Stratton by John Latta.
http://www.straight.com/article/hammertown-by-peter-culley
The Georgia Straight's review of Hammertown.
Interview:
http://12or20questions.blogspot.com/2008/02/12-or-20-questions-with-peter-culley.html
Rob Mclennan's interview with Peter Culley, posted on Mclennan's blog, 12 or 20 Questions conducted in February of 2008.
On-line Work:
http://mossesfromanoldmanse2.blogspot.com/
Peter's personal blog.
http://www.artspeak.ca/exhibitions/text_detail.html?text_id=90
Culley's Fruit Dots.
http://www.ccca.ca/writers/author_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=1963&context=003&author=Peter%20Culley
Selected art criticism at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art.
Jeff Derksen
Audio:
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=43&eventchoice=59
Derksen reading at the Kootenay School of Writing on Feb 15th,1998. Introduction by Andrew Klobucar.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=43&eventchoice=58
Reading at Capilano College on Oct 28, 1993.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=43&eventchoice=230
Reading at the New Poetics Colloquium (1985) at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design on August 24th, 1985.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/phillytalks/Philly-Talks-Episode03.html
PhillyTalks. Three pieces by Derksen.
http://www.atwaterlibrary.ca/en/node/594
Reading for Atwater Series.
http://www.slought.org/content/11132/
"The Social Mark (I): Poetry Readings" contains a readings and lengthy discussion between several poets including Louis Cabri and Jeff Derksen.
Criticism:
http://www.pressforward.com/research/0973542217txt.pdf#page=111
Link to ebook: "Immaculate Retrieval: The Search Ability of Canadian Literary Magazines", featuring an essay by Budde "Rethinking Ink: Debate in Print Production Procedures" (w/ Kelly Wintemute).
http://www.transcanadas.ca/media/pdfs/derksen.pdf
"National Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism." Transcanadas Conference paper assessing recent theorizations of globalization and culture in the context of contemporary Canadian literature.
http://www.dcpoetry.com/anthology/134
"Addresing Globalization: Three Methods" (2001). Poetry and critical writing.
http://jacketmagazine.com/34/derkson-newlove.shtml
Introduction to John Newlove's A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove.
On-line Work:
http://www.lot.at/mynewidea_com/
Derksen's personal webpage featuring a selection of his poetry and critical work.
http://www.lot.at/Urban_Subjects_US/index.html
Urban Subjects' site. A co-research group composed of Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber.
Jon Paul Fiorentino
Biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Paul_Fiorentino
Entry for Jon on Wikipedia.
http://www.jonpaulfiorentino.com/
Jon's personal and professional website.
Criticism:
http://www.chbooks.com/taxonomy/term/396
Web portal of work by and about Jon, hosted by Coach House Books.
http://www.hour.ca/books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=8797
Review of Theory of the Loser Class, by Melora Koepke.
Interviews:
http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/fiorentino.htm
Fiorentino interview by Nathaniel G. Moore at the Danforth Review.
http://www.smallpressexchange.com/the_news/interviews/beautiful_loser?_interview_with_jon_paul_fiorentino_20060327440/
Small Press Exchange interview with Fiorentino about this book, Theory of the Loser Class, by Daniel Sendecki.
On-line Work:
http://asthmaboy.blogspot.com/
Blog.
http://www.matrixmagazine.org/
Webpage for Matrix, where Fiorentino is Editor-in-Chief.
Maxine Gadd
Biography:
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2006/11/15/Gadd/
Article on Max at The Tyee.
Audio:
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=60&eventchoice=81
Gadd reading at the Kootenay School of Writing, Friday March 13, 1998.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=60&eventchoice=80
Gadd reading at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Thursday October 29, 1992.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=60&eventchoice=79
Gadd reading at the Kootenay School of Writing, Saturday December 14, 1991.
Criticism:
http://www.rainreview.net/rain-050105.html
The Rain Review of Books review of Gadd's Backup to Babylon: Poems, 1972-1987, by Judith Copithorne.
Interview:
http://12or20questions.blogspot.com/2008/01/12-or-20-questions-with-maxine-gadd.html
Interview with Gadd, posted on Rob Mclennan's blog, 12 or 20 Questions.
On-line Work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidaver/sets/72157600112160592/detail
Pages from Gadd's rare Air Two (1971), on Aaron Vidaver's Flikr page.
Claire Huot & Robert Majzels
Biography:
http://www.drunkenboat.com/db9/mistran_text/majzels/index.html
Article on Robert Majzels.
Audio:
http://www.atwaterlibrary.ca/en/node/655
Claire Huot reading for Oana Avasilichioaei's Atwater Poetry Project.
Criticism:
http://www.themercurypress.ca/?q=reviews/prison_tangram
Review of Huot's The Prison Tangram.
http://www.themercurypress.ca/?q=authors/robert_majzels
Links to several reviews of Majzes' work.
Interviews:
http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/robert_majzels.htm
Nathaniel G. Moore interviews Robert Majzels.
http://albertawriting.blogspot.com/2007/12/12-or-20-questions-with-robert-majzels.html
Robert Majzels interviewed by rob mclennan.
On-line Work:
http://285bungalowdrive.blogspot.com/
Blog featuring Huot and Majzels' collaborative work.
Larissa Lai
Biography:
http://biblilaigraphy.blogspot.com/
A detailed bibliography of all of Larissa Lai's work.
http://larissalai.blogspot.com/
Larissa's blog.
Criticism:
http://www.westcoastline.ca/covers/38_2.htm
Table of Contents to a special issue of West Coast Line dedicated to Lai's work.
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/1-55152-168-7.html
Book review by Russ Allbery of Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand.
http://www.glbtfantasy.com/?section=single&revid=417
Book review of Lai's Salt Fish Girl.
http://www.glbtfantasy.com/?section=single&revid=362
Book review of Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand
Dorothy Lusk
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lacuq8gAjuY&feature=related
KSW Reading Part 2 of 3 featuring Lusk reading Sleek Vinyl Drill, DECORUM [Typical] & For D.M. Fraser as part of the "Against Work as Such" series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3nRiSBDb4&feature=PlayList&p=4EE3ABE9FEA981DA&index=6
KSW Reading Part 3 of 3. featuring Rumplestiltskin's Dotter--A Meaningful Poem, DECORUM (an Hysterical) Eye, Facer [st ve DECORUM] & Hallowed Weekend
Audio:
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=91&eventchoice=280
Dorothy Lusk reading at the KSW on December of 2006.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=91&eventchoice=69
Dorothy Lusk reading at the KSW on June of 1991.
Interview:
http://jacketmagazine.com/18/c-iv-lusk.html
Donato Mancini interviews DTL..
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2008/02/12-or-20-questions-with-dorothy.html
Rob Mclennan's interview with Dorothy Lusk, posted on Mclennan's blog, 12 or 20 Questions.
Criticism:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidaver/sets/72157605474373757/
Jeff Derksen, " 'But I am ideological historical & alive...' " (1995). Essay by Derksen Lusk's Redactive.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidaver/447863877/
Bruce Andrews "READING NOTES" on Lusk's work. From A Pestschrift for Dorothy Trujillo Lusk (Vancouver: Thuja Books, 2003).
http://courses.capcollege.bc.ca/faculty/rfarr/against_stratification.pdf
"Against Stratification: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk's Ogress Oblige and the Poetics of Class Recomposition." Essay by Roger Farr discussing language and class in Lusk's work. From XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 17 (2007).
On-line Work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vidaver/sets/72157600172757166/
Lusk's Oral Tragedy (1988) on Aaron Vidaver's Flikr page.
Donato Mancini
Biography:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/mancini/
Donato's page at the Electronic Poetry Centre. Includes links to critical and creative work.
Criticism:
http://www.straight.com/article/donato-mancini
Georgia Straight article from 2004, an Artist's profile on Donato Mancini.
On-line Work:
http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/ligature/text.html\
Donato Mancini's Ligature project.
http://front.bc.ca/research/texts/6
An essay in Front about the history and operation of Front.
http://www.kswnet.org/kswextra/poetryposterpoem.cfm?ID=85
On Jeff Derksen's "Relational Poetics of Hyper-referential Humour."
http://journals.sfu.ca/poeticfront/index.php/pf/article/viewFile/12/10
"Why the Young Hate Us." An essay about youth and poetics from the poetic journal The Poetic Front.
Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2193111106884561154
Documentary entitled Avatara made by Mancini, Jeremy Turner and Flick Harrison about the internet subculture of Avatars and personalities.
Jamie Reid
Biography:
http://www.talonbooks.com/index.cfm?event=authorDetails&authorID=163
A brief biography of Jamie Reid at Talonbooks.
Criticism:
http://www.ekstasiseditions.com/prrb/articles/issue08-newlove.html
Reid reviewing the collection The Long Continual Argument: the selected poems of John Newlove edited by Robert McTavish, and the film What to Make of It All? The Life and Poetry of John Newlove.
http://boppin.com/ag_jr.html
An essay about poet Allen Ginsberg, where Reid touches upon his own experience with meeting Ginsberg as well as his life, work and effect on modern poetry.
Interview:
http://www.wordarc.com/SAMAEL/2008/09/25/Jamie_and_Himself%3A_An_Interview_with_Canada%27s_Jamie_Reid
Interview with Jamie Reid in which he touches upon his time in TISH, his thoughts on collectives and his views on American and Canadian poetry.
On-line Work:
http://vancouverjazz.com/gallery/rhapsody.shtml
The first part of Reid's book-length poem dedicated to American jazz tenor saxophonist Lester Young, Prez: Homage to Lester Young, entitled Rhapsody: Lester's Sound.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jw-turner/ReidPredict.htm
Reid's Predictable.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jw-turner/reidmessage.htm
Reid's A Message To Easter Island.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/jw-turner/reid.htm
Three pieces by Jamie Reid: The Amusements of the Journey, The Man Whose Path was on Fire II, XI (the stone, thrown), XII (play of light on water) with A List of Desirable Objects at the end.
Darren Wershler-Henry
Biography:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/wershler-henry/
Darren's page at EPC.
Audio:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wershler-Henry.html
Collections of events featuring Darren Wershler-Henry including: Tapeworm at the Kelly Writers House, November 20, 2008; Reading as part of The Line Reading Series, April 8, 2003; Segue reading at Double Happiness, NY, May 12, 2001; and Reading at SUNY Buffalo, April 2001.
Interview:
http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/darren_wershlerhenry.htm
A 2006 interview by Derek Beaulieu discussing Wershler-Henry's book, The Iron Whim, and his views on the medium and mode of the typewriter.
Criticism:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok/nickel.html
Christian Boek reviews Darren Wershler-Henry's Nicholodeon.
http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/1935
Darren reviews The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement, by Michael Strangelov for The Canadian Journal of Communication.
On-line Work:
http://www.theeastvillage.com/tc/wershler/p6.htm
Darren Wershler-Henry's the dangerous prevalence of imagination: a tapeworm.
http://www.theeastvillage.com/tc/wershler/a.htm
Collection of works by Wershler-Henry influenced by hard-rock bands called Brave Words: includes Black Sabbath, Kyuss, White Zombie, Alice In Chains, and Motorhead.
http://www.ubu.com/papers/ol/dwh.html
Essay Noise in the Channel, or I Really Don't Have Any Paper: an antifesto. by for a project on cyberpoetics "OL3: open letter on lines online" (2000).
Lissa Wolsak
Audio:
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=165&eventchoice=218
Lissa Wolsak reading at Kootenay School of Writing, Tuesday May 30, 1995.
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/author_profile_page.cfm?authorchoice=165&eventchoice=33
Wolsak reading, in its entirety, an earlier draft of the poem that became her book The Garcia Family Co-Mercy at Kootenay School of Writing, Wednesday June 8, 1994.
Criticism:
http://home.jps.net/~nada/wolsak.htm
Henry Gould reviews Pen Chants: or nth or 12 spirit-like impermanences
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2001summer/wolsak.shtml
Jen Hofer reviews Pen Chants.
Interview:
http://ca.geocities.com/alterra@rogers.com/wolsint.htm
Tom Beckett's interview with Lissa Wolsak
On-line Work:
http://www.wildhoneypress.com/BOOKS/a_defence_of_being.htm
Wolsak's A Defense of Being.
On-line Work:
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/
online_archive/v1_5_2001/current/readings/erotics/wolsak.html
Wolsak's An Heuristic Prolusion in its completed form.
Rita Wong
Biographical:
http://www.ecuad.ca/~rwong/
Rita Wong's personal website which features a selection of her poetry, a detailed bibliography of her critical work and personal e-mail.
http://www.sfu.ca/~rkwong/index.htm
Rita's first website featuring a selection of poems as well as some links to some of her critical work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Wong
A Wiki page about Rita.
Audio:
http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=2699910&song=Poem+and+Puzzle
Interview on Cross Cultural Poetics. Wong discussers her work, politics, poetry within the Bush-era, and reads a selection of pieces from Monkeypuzzle.
Criticism:
http://www.sfu.ca/~rkwong/reviews/SKY.html
A book review by Rita of Sky Lee's Bellydancer, from Kinesis.
http://www.sfu.ca/~rkwong/reviews/CHINADOG.html
A review of Judy Fong Bates' China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry, for Kinesis.
Interview:
http://12or20questions.blogspot.com/2008/01/12-or-20-questions-with-rita-wong.html
Rita answers 20 questions.
On-line Work:
http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/main/master.asp?id=611
The poems reconnaissance and the dance of the dutiful daughter by Wong.