Abstract:
By attending to the Spanish Civil War poems in New Frontier by A. M. Stephen, Margaret Day, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Livesay, and Kenneth Leslie, this paper outlines an instance when Canadian literary production responds to a transnational event and transforms Canadian articulations of a national modernist poetics.
This article “From Transnational Politics to National Modernist Poetics: Spanish Civil War Poetry in New Frontier” originally appeared in 50th Anniversary Interventions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 204 (Spring 2010): 44-60.
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