Regular CNQ contributor Steven Beattie has a thoughtful post over at his blog about Gender and Literature. This is something we’ve been thinking a lot about over the last couple of years at CNQ, and especially since the whole Salon des Refuses kerfuffle (issue 74), when a couple of articles raised charges of misogyny. In [...]
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From Dickens to digitization: how Technology has killed copyright
Daniel Wellsby Gillian Shaw, National Post
Copyright infringement has stirred the souls of artists and publishers since the time of Charles Dickens, who went to the United States in 1842 to ask the Americans to stop pirating his works.
His books were being reprinted there without his receiving a penny, but the Americans told him to jump in [...]
the cage match of canadian poetry
Daniel WellsThe Cage Match of Canadian Poetry from Kit Dobson on Vimeo.
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Scholar
Daniel WellsOver at the Globe & Mail, the Tuesday essay asks why there are not more Canadian Literature professors on literary award juries.
It’s the start of a new year for Canadian literature. The hoopla surrounding last year’s Giller has quieted down. The Governor-General’s Literary Awards have been handed out. Soon Canada Reads will fill the gap [...]
Lazy Bastardism
Daniel WellsOver at the Poetry Foundation website, CNQ Poetry Editor Carmine Starnino writes about how boredom is essential to creativity.
I’ve never had a good feeling about writing poetry. Unease set in early, when I was about seventeen, and, after two decades, the deed still doesn’t sit quite right. I’m a victim, I tell myself, [...]
CNQ 77 is on the Newsstand
Daniel WellsIssue 77 of CNQ: Canadian Notes & Queries is currently on the newsstand and on its way to mailboxes across the land. Contents include:
The Inaugural Doug Wright speech by Seth
Nancy Baele’s memoir of Living with Art, dealing withthe painting of Richard Gorman
The next installment in Roy MacSkimming’s Perilous Trade Conversations: Coach House Books
Ian Young’s memoir [...]