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Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction.
To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s.
The poetics explored include the works of Nicole Brossard, Daphne Martlatt, bpNichol, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Frank Davey in the 1960s and ’70s. For the 1980-2000 period, the authors include essays on Jeff Derksen, Clare Harris, Erin Mour, and Lisa Robertson. They also look at books by older authors published after 1979, including Robin Blaser, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah.
A historiography of the radical poets, and a roster of the little magazines, small press publishers, literary festivals, and other such sites that have sustained poetic experimentation, provide context.
Pauline Butling teaches Canadian literature and cultural studies in the Humanities Department at the Alberta College of Art and Design.|Susan Rudy Dorscht teaches literary and feminist theory, writing by women, and Canadian writing in the English Department at the University of Calgary.
Table of Contents for Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957–2003) by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy
List of Illustrations
Preface | Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy
Acknowledgements
Chronology 1 (1957–1979) From the Canada Council to Writing in Our Time
1. (Re)Defining Radical Poetics | Pauline Butling
2. One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four: Poetry, Publishing, Politics, and Communities | Pauline Butling
3. Tish: “The Problem of Margins” | Pauline Butling
4. bpNichol and a Gift Economy: “The Play of a Value and the Value of Play” | Pauline Butling
5. “I know that all has not been said”: Nicole Brossard in English | Susan Rudy
6. Poetry and Landscape, More Than Meets the Eye: Roy Kiyooka, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, and George Bowering | Pauline Butling
7. Fred Wah—Among | Susan Rudy
8. “The Desperate Love Story That Poetry Is”: Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K | Susan Rudy
Chronology 2(1980–2003) Theytus Books to Nomados Press
9. “Who Is She?” Inside/Outside Literary Communities | Pauline Butling
10. “what there is teasing beyond the edges”: Claire Harris’s Liminal Autobiography | Susan Rudy
11. Robin Blaser’s “thousand and one celebrations” | Pauline Butling
12. “From Radical to Integral”: Daphne Marlatt’s “Booking Passage” | Pauline Butling
13. “But Is It Politics?”: Jeff Derksen’s “Rearticulatory Poetics” | Susan Rudy
14. “what can atmosphere with / vocabularies delight?”: Excessively Reading Erin Mouré | Susan Rudy
15. The Weather Project: Lisa Robertson’s Poetics of “Soft Architecture” | Susan Rudy
16. Literary Activism: Changing the Garde: 1990s Editing and Publishing | Pauline Butling
Works Cited
Index