Current Issue
228-229 Emerging Scholars 2
(Spring/Summer)

Featured Poem

Galactic Dynamics
By John Donlan
So long as inertia’s great flywheel holds all in place why complain about the weather? Let it teach us to vary, repeat ourselves, defy prediction....
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Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Virtual Field Trip

Join us on a virtual tour to see Chinatown from the eyes of SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Café!

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Special Promotion: Canadian Literature issues 230/231, 228/229, and 227—now with goodies!

We are excited to announce a special promotion for Canadian Literature’s upcoming issue #230/231!

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W. E. Mason - Dogs of all Nations, 1923

Canada Reads 2017 Winner

Congratulations to André Alexis, winner of Canada Reads 2017!

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Second Edition Launch for the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles

Loonie and toque are familiar Canadianisms, but have you heard of aegrotat, tillicum, or bunny hug?

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New Issue: Emerging Scholars 2 #228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016)

Emerging Scholars 2, our latest special issue, has just been released!

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “The Concept of Vancouver”

Call for papers for a special issue on “The Concept of Vancouver”!

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May 30, 2017
Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Virtual Field Trip
May 16, 2017
Special Promotion: Canadian Literature issues 230/231, 228/229, and 227—now with goodies!
May 2, 2017
Canada Reads 2017 Winner
April 25, 2017
Second Edition Launch for the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
March 21, 2017
New Issue: Emerging Scholars 2 #228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016)
March 2, 2017
Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “The Concept of Vancouver”
January 31, 2017
“Decolonizing Conversations”: Margery Fee’s McLean Lectures
January 20, 2017
Public Symposium: New Directions in Transpacific Cultural Research
November 18, 2016
Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016
November 17, 2016
Kwahiatonhk! Salon du livre des Premières Nations, Wendake, QC

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November 17, 2016
Kwahiatonhk! Salon du livre des Premières Nations, Wendake, QC
May 11, 2016
Compte-rendu d’événement : journée d’études “La Claque. Violence et résilience en littérature québécoise contemporaine”
May 11, 2016
Appel à communication : Le défi de la fragilité. Exiguïté, distance et fantasmes identitaires dans l’œuvre critique de François Paré.
November 18, 2015
Appel à communications: Résistance et résilience dans l’écriture littéraire francophone migrante au Canada
November 18, 2015
Jack Kerouac, écrivain canadien-français ?
November 1, 2015
Appel à contributions: La critique canado-asiatique au-delà du prisme national

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July 27, 2017
Three from Gaspereau
July 26, 2017
Letters from Iceland
July 25, 2017
Of Time and Trouble
July 24, 2017
The Centre and Margins
July 21, 2017
“All is made new”
July 20, 2017
Canadian Herstory
July 19, 2017
Inheriting Murder
July 18, 2017
“holding each other up”
July 17, 2017
Surrealist Statecraft
July 14, 2017
New Terms, Old Concerns

Canadian Literature

Featured Book Review

Translating Desire
  • For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems by John Barton
  • Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli
  • After Desire by George Stanley
Reviewed by Andrew Lesk
George Stanley’s central concern is clearly suggested by the title, and it’s a sad and somewhat dour place to be, this post-desire place. In tandem with being or becoming invisible as an object of desire as he ages, Stanley’s poetry also ruminates on the process of making poetic meaning itself...
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