Prismatic Publics excerpt and audio now online!

Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics hits bookstores in just a couple of weeks. To tide you over during the wait, we've posted a generous excerpt of the book and a great selection of audio files. Click here to listen to the poets read pieces from the anthology or download the excerpt (which includes the editors' introduction and an interview with Nicole Brossard) attached below.

About Prismatic Publics:

Nicole Brossard, Margaret Christakos, Susan Holbrook, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Karen Mac Cormack, Daphne Marlatt, Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, Sina Queyras, Lisa Robertson, Gail Scott, Nathalie Stephens, Catriona Strang, Rita Wong, Rachel Zolf.

These fifteen women are some of the best writers currently engaged in avant-garde literary production, defining the contours of new movements and schools of writing. By showcasing their work alongside extensive interviews, Prismatic Publics stages intimate encounters with these key figures as they work in and against feminist, Language, conceptual, investigative and other poetic traditions — often across, between and at the interstices of genres.

Gathered in a single volume, these selections — some dating back to the early 1970s and others appearing in print for the first time — provide an opportunity to trace the diverse networks, influences, dialogues, dialectics and interventions that continue to make Canada's innovative women writers a powerful force in avant-garde writing around the world.