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