Soundin' Canaan

By Paul D.B. Watkins
Subjects: Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Social Science, Multiculturalism

Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin’ Canaan demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is not solely aesthetic, but a form ...

Molecular Cathedral

By John Lent
Edited by Jake Kennedy
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Molecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing instructor and poet.
Lents work is restlessly experimental and yet always approachable ...

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen

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

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 ...

A Possible Trust

By Ronna Bloom
Edited by Phil Hall
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

With compassion, humour and sharp-eyed irreverence, Ronna Bloom's work has made a significant impact on Canadian poetry. A Possible Trust is selected from her work to date.
Bloom writes concisely of the ...

Land/Relations

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

By Nduka Otiono
Edited by Peter Midgley
Afterword by Chris Dunton
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
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: Life Writing, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, History, Military History, Canadian 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, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies

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 h ...

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 ...