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Volume 30 Number 1

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The University of New Brunswick

© 2005

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor: Sabine Campbell Editorial Assistants: Jason Cawley, Stewart Cole, Cara Fabre

Advisory Board:

Neil Besner University of Winnipeg E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Marie Carrière Université du Nouveau-Brunswick Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill Daniel Coleman McMaster University David Creelman University of New Brunswick Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia Ajay Heble University of Guelph Douglas Ivison Lakehead University

Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph Susan Knutson Université Ste-Anne Denyse Lynde Memorial University of Nfld Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University Jean Morency Université de Moncton Laura Moss University of British Columbia Norman Ravvin Concordia University Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Linda Warley University of Waterloo Florence Stratton University of Regina Herb Wyile Acadia University

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction:

Canadian Poetry: Traditions/Counter-Traditions Poésie canadienne : traditions/contre-traditions

ROSS LECKIE, MARIE CARRIÈRE,

JOHN CLEMENT BALL, JENNIFER ANDREWS 1

“In Flanders Fields”—

Canada’s Official Poem: Breaking Faith NANCY HOLMES 11

“A Man in a World of Men”: The Rough, the Tough, and the Tender in Robert W. Service’s Songs of a Sourdough SHARON SMULDERS 34

“Savage nations roam o’er native wilds”:

Charles Mair and the Ecological Indian KATIA GRUBISIC 58

Le poème en prose canadien-français au XIX^e siècle : l’appel français du genre

LUC BONENFANT 83

Étude synchronique de la poésie au Québec et en France ISABELLE MIRON 100

Between Tradition and Counter-Tradition: The Poems of A.J.M. Smith and F.R. Scott in The Canadian Mercury (1928-29) ALAN RICHARDS 113

A Philosophy of the Verb: Bertram Brooker’s Early Canadian Mystical-Modernist Verse

GREGORY BETTS 135

“And We Are Homesick Still”:

Home, the Unhomely, and the Everyday in Anne Wilkinson KATHY MEZEI 160

Mapping the Mind’s “I”: Vision, Perception, and Complicity in the Early Poems of P.K. Page

JANE SWANN 181

La chambre : Un archétype intime dans la poésie québécoise des années 80 LUMINITA URS 198

Les Poètes Acadiens de la relève

RAOUL BOUDREAU 211

In a Boat on the River Nowhere Writing Home: The Spiritual Poetic of Tim Lilburn

GREGORY MAILLET 226

“Moving from place to face”:

Landscape and Longing in the Poetry of John Barton ROBERT G. MAY 245

La mort comme espace d’écriture dans Œuvre de la première mort de J.R. Léveillé LYDIA LAMONTAGNE 270

Language to Light On:

Dionne Brand and the Rebellious Word KAYA FRASER 291

Synchronous Foreignicity: Fred Wah’s Poetry and the Recuperation of Experimental Texts ANDY WEAVER 309

Entre deux mondes: l’hybridation de l’épopée chez Réjean Ducharme SANDRA HOBBS 326

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 345