Gregory Betts is the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. He is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (2013) as well as six books of experimental poetry. He is currently the artistic director of the Festival of Readers in St. Catharines.Christian Bök won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his book Eunoia. He is currently working on The Xenotext, a project that requires him to encode a poem into the genome of a microbe capable of thriving in any inhospitable environment. Bök is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, and he teaches at Charles Darwin University.

This collection of academic essays and creative pieces takes an enthusiastic, engaged attitude to the unrolling of Canadian literature, starting with an intelligent introduction by editors Gregory Betts and Christian Bök [...] -- Derek Webster -- Canadian Notes and Queries, 2018

• List of FiguresI INTRODUCTION1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in CanadaII PROLOGUE2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into PoetryIII THE CENTENNIAL4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers5 Stephen Cain—""A Vision in the UofT Stacks"": bpNichol in the LibraryIV CONCRETE POLITICS6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart9 Kelly Mark—National and Time10 Kaie Kellough—ContinentsV LANGUAGE WRITING11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (""Anaximenes"")15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You)VI IDENTITY WRITING16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?17 Sonnet L'Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behindVII COPYLEFT POLITICS21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada24 Moez Surani—198825 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage TheoreticallyVIII EPILOGUE26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be DrawnIX AFTER MATTERNotes and AcknowledgementsBibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex

Gregory Betts is the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. He is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (2013) as well as six books of experimental poetry. He is currently the artistic director of the Festival of Readers in St. Catharines.Christian Bök won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his book Eunoia. He is currently working on The Xenotext, a project that requires him to encode a poem into the genome of a microbe capable of thriving in any inhospitable environment. Bök is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, and he teaches at Charles Darwin University.

This collection of academic essays and creative pieces takes an enthusiastic, engaged attitude to the unrolling of Canadian literature, starting with an intelligent introduction by editors Gregory Betts and Christian Bök [...] -- Derek Webster -- Canadian Notes and Queries, 2018

• List of FiguresI INTRODUCTION1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in CanadaII PROLOGUE2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into PoetryIII THE CENTENNIAL4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers5 Stephen Cain—""A Vision in the UofT Stacks"": bpNichol in the LibraryIV CONCRETE POLITICS6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart9 Kelly Mark—National and Time10 Kaie Kellough—ContinentsV LANGUAGE WRITING11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (""Anaximenes"")15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You)VI IDENTITY WRITING16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be?17 Sonnet L'Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behindVII COPYLEFT POLITICS21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada24 Moez Surani—198825 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage TheoreticallyVIII EPILOGUE26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be DrawnIX AFTER MATTERNotes and AcknowledgementsBibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex