Canadian Literature’s Issue 221 (Summer 2014), Science & Canadian Literature, is now available for order. Janine Rogers introduces this special issue with Duncan Campbell Scott’s metaphor on the intersection of literature and science:
In 1922, when Duncan Campbell Scott gave the annual address to the Royal Society of Canada, he spent some time considering the relationship between literature and science. On the whole, he saw it as a positive one:
Science has taught the modern [poet] that nature lives and breathes,Scott mused, although he also felt that poetryhas no connection with material progress and with those advances which we think of as specialties of modern life(266, 269). Wrestling with these contradictory instincts, Scott tried to articulate how both the natural and mechanical aspects of science might be poetically combined. He imagines what he callsthe poetry of the aeroplane(270).
—Janine Rogers, ‘A Beauty and Daring all its Own’: A Note on Science and Canadian Literature
Science & Canadian Literature contains articles by Tania Aguila-Way; Monica Kidd; Ghislain Thibault and Mark Hayward; Victoria Kuttainen; Sarah de Jong Carson; and Ceri Morgan, with additional notes by Kathleen McConnell and Graham N. Forst. This issue also features new work by Canadian poets Elana Wolff, David McGimpsey, Emma Stothers, and Dave Margoshes as well as a collection of book reviews.