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Charles Mair: 1838-1927
Charles Mair (September 21, 1838 – July 7, 1927) was a Canadian poet and journalist. He was a fervent Canadian Nationalist noted for his participation in the Canada First movement and his opposition to Louis Riel during the two Riel Rebellions in western Canada.
Dec 20, 2011, 09:30
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Roderick A. Macdonald: F.R. Scott – Lawyer and Legal Academic
Although a man of ideas, F.R. Scott was not of a particularly theoretical cast of mind. He was a man of action. While at Oxford he came under the influence of British progressives such as Bertrand Russell, R.H. Tawney and H.G. Wells. These thinkers animated his politics and liberated his poetry.
Dec 4, 2011, 09:27
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Montreal in Verse
"The purpose of this modest volume is twofold: to honour 'in verse our city of Montreal in this year of her Tercentenary, and through the sale of this little book, to contribute to the Queen's Canadian Fund for Air-raid Victims in Britain."
Sep 11, 2011, 23:15
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John McAuley: Newspapers and Open Field Poetry
It isn't far from the truth to say that a poem is shaped or designed with the influence of the newspaper lurking at the back of the maker's mind.
May 9, 2011, 15:15
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John McAuley: Concrete Poetry
The pictorial foundation of writing can be substantiated by many more anecdotes than I can tell here, but I will relate two which validate this cultural response.
May 9, 2011, 15:00
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Elias Letelier: A Brief History of FEWQ
It was a memorable night. Although Peter McFarlane had initially worried about hosting a gathering of people he didn’t know, he slowly warmed up and became the host of the night. It was a typical meeting of intellectuals, people who not only wrote poetry and prose, but who also elaborated ideas. Soon the linguistic reality of Quebec became the focus of the conversation. In fact, the subject triggered an animated exchange of ideas and united everyone in the room, creating a natural alliance among us.
Sep 3, 2010, 21:02
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Tom Konyves: Sympathies of War
In 1978, I coined the term "videopoem" to describe a new medium for a new poetry. Experiments in video-poems to that date (that I was aware of) were performance-oriented, like the work of Toronto experimental poet Steve McCaffery, who sat on a park bench and held up signs or sat at a typewriter which spewed forth a Kerouacian endless paper roll. This new medium of video permitted me to question the a priori role of the poet.
Jul 24, 2010, 21:01
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Major John McCrae: In Flander's Field
In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky / The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Jul 24, 2010, 21:00
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Thomas Cary: Abram's Plains
Thomas Cary wrote one of the earliest poems in English in Quebec. This 14-page poem is a poetic tribute to the farmer’s field where two colonial powers met in battle. Cary, being a loyal Englishman, celebrated the victory; however, the poem is more interesting for its “odefication” of the Plains and description of the different regions of Quebec.
Jul 24, 2010, 21:00
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Richard King: Remembrance of QSPELL Past
The 1980s were an interesting time in the long history of English culture in Québec. Jonathan Penney and I opened an English-language bookstore in the heart of downtown Montreal and made it into the first bookstore café in Canada—probably one of the first ones in North America. The exodus of English people from Québec, mainly from Montreal, did not dissuade us. In fact, we thought that the exodus would, in a strange way, help us.
Jul 24, 2010, 21:00
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