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Frank Davey Davey
More in Davey’s ongoing work on the use of the sentence as the basic structural unit of poetry.
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Frank Davey
Poems Suitable to Current Material Conditions demonstrates how seductive everyday wordsNthose euphemisms and new ‘expressions'N often mean more than we think they do: how when we speak them we can…
A husband’s unflinching account of his wife’s unravelling. How Linda Died is Frank Davey’s powerful and painfully precise account of his wife’s fight against an inoperable brain tumor. Linda’s proud…
As Canada’s first mixed-race vice-regal couple, Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul are one of the country’s most conventionally unconventional couples. This book looks at their partnership and chronicles their…
In the early 1960s, a group of students at UBC started a magazine called Tish. The name was purposefully an anagram of shit, in order to demonstrate their youthful and…
aka bpNichol is the biography of the major Canadian poet bpNichol, author of the seven-volume Martyrology, amongst numerous other works, and who was for more than a decade a practicing…
bpNichol’s The Martyrology is possibly Canada’s greatest long poem. Written over nine books, the poem weaves material from Nichol’s personal life alongside the stories of his created martyrs. Frank Davey…
Selections from seven of this important poet and editor’s long poems.
Davey offers a glossary of recurrent Atwood images and symbols that unveil the hidden level in her writing.
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s popular narratives.
A collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action.
A careful archaeology of the catalogue of innocence assembled by a youthful imagination blossoming during World War II.
The essays collected here have been written against the background of Davey’s long and close intellectual engagement with the major critical issues of his day…(and) provide a clear sense of…
Peter Jaeger
Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, focussing on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).
Frank Davey,Fred Wah
A rambunctious long poem about North American myths, the West and the Canadian psyche, with appearances by Louis Riel, Wacousta, Davy Crockett and assorted disembodied literati.
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Louis Dudek
A passionate believer in the power of art - and especially poetry - to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian…
Frank P. Vazzano
A biography of the Ohio native and politician Martin L Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the early decades of the twentieth century…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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