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A NEW CANADIAN POETICS.

 

edited by Rob McLennan.

 

Toronto, Insomniac Press, [december] 2oo2. ISBN 1-894663-34-9.

 

6 x 9, 138 sheets tan newsprint perfectbound in matte PVC white card wrappers, all except last leaf printed black offset with 3-colour process additions to covers.

 

cover photographs by Kate Seguin; design by Mike O'Connor.

33 contributors ID'd:

John Barlow, Dana Bath, Derek Beaulieu, Robert Budde, Stephen Cain, Natalee Caple, Margaret Christakos, Mark Cochrane, Wayde Compton, Jeff Derksen, Tess Fragoulis, Michael Holmes, Adeena Karasick, Catherine Kidd, Ryan Knighton, Jason Le Heup, Anna Livia, Gil McElroy, David McGimpsey, Rob McLennan, Mike O'Connor, Shane Rhodes, Ray Robertson, Stan Rogal, Ian Samuels, Kate Seguin, Nathalie Stephens, Anne Stone, Michael Turner, Steve Venright, Cris Walker, J.C.Wilcke, Sheri-D Wilson.

 

includes:

i) introduction, by Rob McLennan (pp.9-1o; prose with passing reference to bpNichol)

ii) poetics statement: problems in composition, by Derek Beaulieu (pp.35-38; concrete essay with reference to bpNichol's Translating Translating Apollinaire p.35)

iii) A Prose is a Prose is a Prose is a, by Robert Budde (p.39-42; prose in 5 parts includes parts

–3. a porous prose (pp.41-42; with passing reference to Nichol's Selected Organs)

–5. Works Cited (p.42; bibliography includes Toronto Research Group's Rational Geomancy))

iv) ROUTE I: PED XING, by Stephen Cain (pp.59-61; prose in 4 parts includes part

–3. "Wondertwin transformation, I think the monkey's name was Gleep. Fire" (p.6o; with passing reference to Nichol))

v) ottawa snapshot: a quick poetics, by Rob McLennan (pp.174-176; prose in 4 parts includes parts

–1. "The poem I am writing now makes leaps of logic that the reader is left to (p.174; with passing reference to Nichol)

–3. the other side of the mouth: postscript (p.175; with passing reference to Nichol's zygal))

vi) Centens, by J.C.Wilcke (pp.212-223; poetry/prose in 12 paets includes part

–9. "– is the first word in fluency. (prose with passing reference to Nichol))

vii) My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity – A Treatise On the Merits of Lexiconjury, Deliriomancy and Icelandic Breakfast Foods, by Steve Venright (pp.25o-256; prose in 12 parts includes parts

–5. Sleeping Fits, Insomnia Propaganda, and a Superfluous Inventory (pp.252-253; with passing reference to Four Horsemen)

–11. The Living Language as Agent of Ascension (p.255; with passing reference to "Nichol's alphabetic hagiography"))

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