Workshop | Poetry Matters
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Continuing in the spirit of last semester's gathering, we cordially invite you to the second meeting of a new poetry event,聽鈥淧oetry Matters". If you missed the first meeting, we are envisioning this group as a space for collaborative exchange 鈥� working together on poems and problems that interest us.聽
For our February session,聽the spotlight falls on a selection of Canadian Romantic and modernist poetry (where the session鈥檚 moderators, Professors聽Eli MacLaren聽and聽Brian Trehearne, focus).聽Please contact one of the moderators (at聽brian.trehearne [at] mcgill.ca听辞谤听eli.maclaren [at] mcgill.ca) if you would be interested in reading aloud one of the assigned poems (to be distributed in a future message).
Topic for February聽21:聽"Nature and Landscape in Canadian Poetry, 1860鈥�1940鈥�
Selected poems:聽Charles Sangster, 鈥淭he Falls of the Chaudi猫re, Ottawa鈥� (1860), Isabella Valancy Crawford, 鈥淭he Dark Stag鈥� (1883), Archibald Lampman, 鈥淎mong the Timothy鈥� (1888), Raymond Knister, 鈥淭he Hawk,鈥� E.J. Pratt, 鈥淣ewfoundland鈥� and 鈥淪ea-Gulls,鈥� W.W.E. Ross, 鈥淧ine Gum,鈥� A.J.M. Smith, 鈥淭he Lonely Land,鈥� Dorothy Livesay, 鈥淕reen Rain,鈥� Floris Clark McLaren, 鈥淔rozen Fire鈥�
Again, suggestions for upcoming sessions very welcome:聽if there鈥檚 a question on which you鈥檙e working that you'd like to discuss with the group, please be in touch.聽
Finally, we鈥檇 also like to announce a second Poetry Matters session this term,聽which will take place on聽March 23rd, from聽3:30-5:30, in Bronfman 340. This session will be moderated by Prof. Sandeep Banerjee (topic: "lyric" and聽鈥渕ediation"聽in English, Urdu, and Bengali poetry).
For further information on Poetry Matters, please contact:
Miranda Hickman 鈥撀�miranda.hickman [at] mcgill.ca
Michael Nicholson 鈥撀�michael.nicholson [at] mcgill.ca