Poetry beyond Illocution
Abstract
Visual and conceptual poetry became significant practices in Canada in the late 1950s and 1960s as part of a dissatisfaction with what Antony Easthope in 1986 would call a moribund “bourgeois poetic discourse,” “the poetry of the ‘single voice.’” The latter, however, would continue to survive in school anthologies and arts council policies as a protected form, while the new non-discursive poetries found most of their audiences in art galleries, libraries, music clubs, on the internet, and as often through international presentation as Canadian. The result has been a rich accumulation of visual and conceptual poetry, with its own major figures, that is little understood or studied nationally and often better known and appreciated outside of Canada than within.Published
2016-12-01
How to Cite
Davey, F. (2016). Poetry beyond Illocution . Studies in Canadian Literature, 41(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/25423
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