canadian poetry Archives

“these kinds of playful things”: (Dis)connection in Online Pandemic Performance Poetry (Post)

Posted July 9, 2024

On July 6, 2021, the Poets Corner Reading Series held an event on Zoom featuring poets Ian Williams and Jane Munro hosted by Adrienne Drobnies. After Drobnies reads Williams’s bio, Williams says, “Muted now how about now can you hear me now? I still can’t see you, only your name. Your voice is breaking up” (“Jane […]

Article, SPOKENWEBLOG | Archive of the Digital Present, canadian poetry, Ian Williams, Jane Munro, online, performance

“How in the hell do you get home?”: Listening to the particular in “Prince George, Finally” (Post)

Posted April 10, 2024

While inputting metadata as part of my RA work for Simon Fraser University’s SpokenWeb team, there was one tape that I kept coming back to. The tape is a recording of poet Brian Fawcett reading and being interviewed for the radio program Mountain Pass. After returning to this recording again and again, I decided […]

Article, SPOKENWEBLOG | Brian Fawcett, British Columbia, canadian poetry, Simon Fraser University, The Tape Box series

ShortCuts: TAKE 3 – The Politics of Literary Modernism (Post)

Posted November 21, 2023

How might a public dialogue between three modernist poets in 1978—about poetry written in the 1930s and 1940s—remain relevant to thinking about the conditions of Canadian literature today? Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott, and Irving Layton, as we have explored in Take 1 and Take 2, examine the shifting relationships between politics, nation, and poetry that are foundational to understandings of what constitutes ‘modernism’ in Canada during these periods.

Article, ShortCuts, SPOKENWEBLOG | Anne Marriott, canadian literature, canadian modernism, canadian poetry, Dorothy Livesay, Irving Layton, literary modernism, Simon Fraser University

ShortCuts: TAKE 2 – ‘Little Magazines’ and New Print Possibilities in Canada (Post)

Posted August 14, 2023

This post is the second of a three-part series by Teddie Brock, all based on a 1978 panel discussion with Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott, and Irving Layton, as recorded on audio preserved at the Simon Fraser University Archives. Check back on SPOKENWEBLOG for the next installment of this close listening to the archives as they […]

Article, Collections, ShortCuts, SPOKENWEBLOG | Anne Marriott, canadian poetry, Dorothy Livesay, Irving Layton, little magazines, modernism, Simon Fraser University

ShortCuts: TAKE 1 – Canadian Poetry “In The Air” and “On The Page” (Post)

Posted June 23, 2023

LIVESAY: “But in the 30s there were absolutely no readings… I—we were much too embarrassed or shy even to read to each other. Everything was the printed word. And that is why the magazine was such an important thing… Poets were working together to produce a magazine, and to try and get an audience for […]

Audio of the week, ShortCuts, SPOKENWEBLOG | Anne Marriott, audio archives, canadian literature, canadian poetry, Dorothy Livesay, Irving Layton, literary modernism, little magazines, modernism, print culture, Simon Fraser University

ShortCuts Introduction: Canadian Poetry of the 1930s and 1940s—Listening to Literary History (Post)

Posted May 19, 2023

ShortCuts on SPOKENWEBLOG is a series of critical commentaries about short clips selected from audio collections across the SpokenWeb network. This post introduces a three-part series by Teddie Brock, all based on a 1978 panel discussion with Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott, and Irving Layton, as recorded on audio preserved at the Simon Fraser University Archives. […]

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