Table of Contents
Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics, edited by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn
Introduction: Public Poetics | Erin Wunker and Travis V. Mason
Section I: The Contemporary Field
1. Public Poet, Private Life: 20 Riffs on the Dream of a Communal Self | Sina Queyras
2. The Threat of Black Art, or, On Being Unofficially Banned in Canada | El Jones
3. The Counter/Public in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of Poetry in Canada | Tanis MacDonald
4. Writing the Body Politic: Feminist Poetics in the Twenty-First Century | Heather Milne
5. Rewriting and Postmodern Poetics In Canada: Neo-Haikus, Neo-Sonnets, Neo-Lullabies, Manifestoes | John Stout
Poetry I
The Sturdiness | Sina Queyras
The Sexual Politics of Bluestockings | Tanis MacDonald
Routine | Amanda Jernigan
Volume | Shannon Maguire
September Still | Rob Winger
The inevitability of gravity on glass | Vanessa Lent
Section II: The Embedded Field
6. The Ingeminate Eye: Peter Sanger's Public Poetics | Amanda Jernigan
7. Reading for a Civic Public Poetic: Toronto in Raymond Souster's "Ten Elephants on Yonge Street" and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies | Will Smith
8. To the Bone: The Instrumental Activism of Dionne Brand's Ossuaries | Geordie Miller
9. Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild: Sachiko Murakami's Architectural Poetics of Community | Emily Ballantyne
10. "We jimmied the radio": Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran, and the Lyric in Public | Kevin McNeilly
Poetry II
Hungry | Kevin McNeilly
Potter's Hearing Is Not Khadr's Ruling | Kathy Mac
The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio Itself (from Insecession, and echolation of Secession, by Chus Pato) | from Insecession by Erín Moure
The Avian Flu | Brad Cran
Section III: Expanding the Field
11. Formal Protest: Reconsidering the Poetics of Canadian Pamphleteering | Andrea Hasenbank
12. Radio Poetics: Publishing and Poetry on CBC's Anthology | Katherine McLeod
13. The Public Reading: Call for a New Paradigm | Erín Moure and Karis Shearer
14. We Are the Amp: A Poetics of the Human Microphone | Michael Nardone
15. Canadian Public Poetics: Negotiating Belonging in a Globalizing World | Diana Brydon