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Archival Spectres and Formats of the Event: The Foster Poetry Conference, 1963
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Archival Spectres and Formats of the Event: The Foster Poetry Conference, 1963
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| Abstract |
The author tells the story of the 1963 Foster Poetry Conference — a provincial government-sponsored gathering in the Eastern Townships of Quebec of English-language poets — from its conception by Montreal poets John Glassco (1909-1981), Frank Scott (1899-1985) and A.J.M. Smith (1902-1980) to the publication of the conference proceedings, edited by Glassco, titled "English Poetry in Quebec" (McGill University Press,1965). This historical account presents a meaningful yet all-but-forgotten poetry event within the context of new forms of government support for poetry events, the wider significance of North American poetry readings and conferences in the 1960s, and attempts to achieve greater rapprochement between English and French Quebec poetry communities at a transformational moment in the history of Quebec politics and society. The published proceedings included such articles as: "The Poet in Quebec Today" by Frank Scott; "The Creative Process" by Irving Layton; "The Little Magazine" by Louis Dudek; and "the Poet and the Nuclear Crisis" by A.J.M. Smith.
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CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event
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Montreal and Kingston
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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2019
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141-164
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en
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978-0-7735-5866-3
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A translation of the author's article, "Le Foster Poetry Conference (1963)," in Voix et Images, Vol. 40, no. 2 (Hiver 2015): 59-75. |
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Camlot, Jason. “Archival Spectres and Formats of the Event: The Foster Poetry Conference, 1963.” In CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event, edited by Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod, 141–164. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.
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