The Modern Poetry Collection

The Little Presses & Magazines: Recommended Background Reading

 

 

 

The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada. Eds. Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967.

 

Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.

 

Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972.

 

Beaulieu, Derek, and Jason Christie, eds., Open Letter 12.4, Fall 2004.

 

Birney, Earle. Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers, Book 1, 1904-1949. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980.

 

Brown, E.K. On Canadian Poetry. Ottawa, Tecumseh, 1977.

 

Butling, Pauline; Rudy, Susan. Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003).  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.

 

Cain, Stephen, ed., Open Letter 11.6, Fall 2002.

 

Davis, Roger Paul. A bibliographical index and critical history of "Open Letter". Ph.D. diss., University of Calgary, 2002. ProQuest. http://search.proquest.com.proxy.library.carleton.ca/docview/304792543?pq-origsite=summon

 

Doyle, James. "Literary Magazines and the Cosmopolitan/Nationalism Debate in Canada." Context North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations. Ed. Camille R. La Bossiere. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1994.  

 

Dudek, Louis. Literature and the Press. Toronto: Ryerson/Contact, 1960.

 

Eggleston, Wilfrid. The Frontier & Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1957.

 

Francis, Wynne. "The Expanding Spectrum: Literary Magazines." Canadian Literature, No. 57, Summer 1973, 6-17.

 

-----------. "Literary Underground: Little Magazines in Canada." Canadian Literature. No. 34, Autumn 1967, 63-70.

 

-----------. "The Little Magazine/Small Press Movement and Canadian Poetry in English Since 1950." Laurentian University Review, 10, No. 2, February 1978, 89-109.

 

-----------. "The Little Presses." Canadian Literature, No. 33, Summer 1967, 56-62.

 

Frye, Northrop. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971.

 

Gnarowski, Michael. A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.

 

Irvine, Dean. Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

 

Kronfeld, Chana. On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Berkely: University of California Press, 1996.

 

McCutcheon, Sarah. "Little Presses in Canada." Canadian Literature, No. 57 (Summer 1973).

 

Norris, Ken. The Little Magazine in Canada 1925-80: Its Role in the Development of Modernism and Post-Modernism in Canadian Poetry. Toronto: ECW Press, 1984.

 

-----------. "The Little Magazines." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 10 (Spring 1978).

 

-----------."The Vital Necessity for Experimentation & Regionalism." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 11 (Summer 1978).

 

Stevens, Peter. "Experimental Poetry Since 1950." Laurentian University Review, 10, No. 2 (Feb.1978).

 

Woodcock, George. Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974.