Double Exile and Montreal English-Language Poetry

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Author/collaborator
Title
Double Exile and Montreal English-Language Poetry
Abstract
The author argues that the "small cadre of anglophone poets in Montreal is doubly cut off from an appreciative or at least available readership since it constitutes a tiny insular minority in the midst of a sea of five million French speakers (who pay little attention to works in the 'other' language). At the same time French literature is itself a minority phenomenon surrounded on every side by a nation of twenty-five million English speakers (who, for political reasons, will subsidize its token presence but without understanding or familiarity - while ignoring the anglophone remnant almost completely)." But this relative segregation, the author concludes, is by no means an unmitigated disaster since English Montreal poets have profited as writers, though not as celebrities.
Book Title
Director's Cut: Essays
Place
Erin, ON
Publisher
The Porcupine's Quill
Date
2003
Pages
59-66
Language
en
Notes

Article also available in: Language Acts: Anglo-Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century. Ed. Jason Camlot and Todd Swift. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2007, p.80-86.

Citation
Solway, David. “Double Exile and Montreal English-Language Poetry.” In Director’s Cut: Essays, 59–66. Erin, ON: The Porcupine’s Quill, 2003.
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