Antiphonies
Essays on Women’s
Experimental
Poetries in Canada
Antiphonies is a primer on some of the most exciting work in contemporary Canadian poetry. These essays deal with the period from the 1980s to the present, and discuss a wide range of work, from books already acclaimed as modern classics – such as Erin Mouré’s O Cidadán, Lisa Robertson’s Debbie: An Epic, and Karen Mac Cormack’s Implexures – to the equally remarkable work of Susan Clark, Catriona Strang, Lissa Wolsak, Christine Stewart, Deanna Ferguson, Lise Downe, Nancy Shaw, a. rawlings, Marie Annharte Baker and others. The essays are complemented by brief selections of poems and poetics statements.
Contents
| Edward Byrne | The Women (First Reel): On Susan Clark |
| Susan Clark | from Bad Infinity |
| Peter Larkin | Lisa Robertson: How Pastoral Is More and More Possible |
| Susan M. Schultz | “The Ark I”: Lissa Wolsak’s The Garcia Family Co-Mercy |
| Tom Beckett | An Interview with Lissa Wolsak |
| Peter O’Leary | “What Lies Beneath My Copy of Eternity?”: A Religious Reading of Lissa Wolsak’s Poetry |
| Pete Smith | 63 Out-takes from the D.F. Show |
| Nancy Shaw & Catriona Strang | On Collaboration |
| Christine Stewart | This Then Would Be the Conversation |
| Edward Byrne | Raddle Moon: A Talk |
| Reg Johanson | Straight Forward Approach: Annharte’s Exercises in Lip Pointing |
| Miriam Nichols | Toward a Poetics of the Commons: O Cidadán and Occasional Work |
| Caroline Bergvall & Erín Moure | O Yes |
| Chris Daniels & Erín Moure | An Exchange on Translation |
| a. rawlings | Articulate/Punctuate: Tracking an Obsession with Collaborative Performance |
| Lise Downe | Five Poems |
| Gerald L. Bruns | Karen Mac Cormack Among the Pagans |
| Alan Halsey | Responses to & for Karen Mac Cormack |
| Stephen Cain | An Interview with Karen Mac Cormack |
| John Hall | Karen Mac Cormack’s Implexures: An Implicated Reading |
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