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Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” From Pontiac’S War To Attawapiskat By Margery Fee, Cheryl Lousley Feb 2017

Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” From Pontiac’S War To Attawapiskat By Margery Fee, Cheryl Lousley

The Goose

Review of Margery Fee's Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat.


The Plotline Bomber Of Innisfree By Josh Massey, Dessa Bayrock Aug 2016

The Plotline Bomber Of Innisfree By Josh Massey, Dessa Bayrock

The Goose

A review of Josh Massey's The Plotline Bomber of Innisfree.


Excerpts From The Names, Tim Lilburn Mar 2016

Excerpts From The Names, Tim Lilburn

The Goose

A new poetry collection, The Names, from which these excerpts come, will appear spring, 2016.


Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson Mar 2016

Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson

The Goose

How do we get closer to the nature of the bee’s, or any non-human's, experience, mystery that it is? This essay is a lyrical meditation on the power (and challenges) of poetry and language to access non-human worlds.


2 Poems, Ken Belford Mar 2016

2 Poems, Ken Belford

The Goose

2 poems.


Martha, Gillian Harding-Russell Mar 2016

Martha, Gillian Harding-Russell

The Goose

a poem.


Fire Sale, Emily Mcgiffin Mar 2016

Fire Sale, Emily Mcgiffin

The Goose

a poem.


Vex, A Rawlings Mar 2016

Vex, A Rawlings

The Goose

"Vex" is a visual poem from the serial work Dump. The series focuses on language discarded at rural Canadian landfill sites. "Vex" was sourced at Kennisis Lake Landfill Site, July 2014.


Maybe Poets Are Dying | How Did Birds, Basma Kavanagh Mar 2016

Maybe Poets Are Dying | How Did Birds, Basma Kavanagh

The Goose

2 poems


Sustaining The West: Cultural Responses To Canadian Environments Edited By Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones, Shelley L. Mceuen Feb 2016

Sustaining The West: Cultural Responses To Canadian Environments Edited By Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones, Shelley L. Mceuen

The Goose

Review of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments.


Reflections On The Arts, Environment, And Culture After Ten Years Of The Goose, Pamela Banting, Theresa Beer, Sarah Van Borek, Rob Boschman, Nicholas Bradley, Nancy Holmes, Franke James, Jenny Kerber, Sonnet L'Abbé, Larissa Lai, Daphne Marlatt, Stephanie Posthumus, Catriona Sandilands, John Terpstra, Harry Thurston, Rita Wong Feb 2016

Reflections On The Arts, Environment, And Culture After Ten Years Of The Goose, Pamela Banting, Theresa Beer, Sarah Van Borek, Rob Boschman, Nicholas Bradley, Nancy Holmes, Franke James, Jenny Kerber, Sonnet L'Abbé, Larissa Lai, Daphne Marlatt, Stephanie Posthumus, Catriona Sandilands, John Terpstra, Harry Thurston, Rita Wong

The Goose

To mark the tenth anniversary of The Goose, we asked prominent ecologically-minded scholars, writers, artists, and educators from across Canada to reflect on the relationship between the arts, culture, and the environment. Their comments illuminate a wide range of triumphs and tensions, from the politics and practices of environmentalist writing and art, to the connections between the environment and matters of diversity and justice, to the past and future of ALECC (Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada), to the world of a single poem.


Dead And Out Of Place? Revisiting Roughing It In The Bush, Elise J. Mitchell Feb 2016

Dead And Out Of Place? Revisiting Roughing It In The Bush, Elise J. Mitchell

The Goose

Review of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush.


Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber Oct 2015

Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

his article discusses Karsten Heuer’s 2006 book Being Caribou in light of debates in ecocriticism and border studies about how to define the local in the context of environmental problems of vast range and uncertain temporality. It explores how Heuer’s book about following the Porcupine Caribou herd’s migration engages in multiple forms of boundary crossing—between countries, between hemispheric locations, and between species—and shows how insights from Indigenous storytelling complicate the book’s appeal to environmentalist readers by asserting a prior, transnational Indigenous presence in the transboundary landscapes of present-day Alaska and the Yukon.


Pastoral By André Alexis, Alec Follett Jan 2015

Pastoral By André Alexis, Alec Follett

The Goose

Review of Pastoral by André Alexis.


Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden Jan 2015

Journey With No Maps: A Life Of P.K. Page By Sandra Djwa, Mckay Mcfadden

The Goose

Review of Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.


In The Interval Of The Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing By Mary Mcdonald-Rissanen, Joshua Bartlett Jan 2015

In The Interval Of The Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing By Mary Mcdonald-Rissanen, Joshua Bartlett

The Goose

Review of In the Interval of the Wave: Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing by Mary McDonald-Rissanen.