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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain is the author of Vancouver Walking (NeWest, 2005), a series of poems about Vancouver history.

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Reimagining Canadian Poetry

Is the Canadian avant-garde political or experimental or a mixture of both? December 2005
This book is long overdue. Canadian poetry, like Canada itself, has changed dramatically over the past half-century, but much remains to be done to give Canada’s post-colonial, revolutionary voices and its literary inventors their rightful place in anthologies, classrooms and the popular imagination. Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957–2003), by Pauline Butling and Susan…