About the Small Press in Canada

The following are links to articles about the Small Press in Canada:

Scherf, Kathleen. "A Legacy of Canadian Cultural Tradition and the Small Press: The Case of Talonbooks." (Studies in Canadian Literature)

Canadian Small and Fine Press (Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library, University of Toronto)

Lapierre, Samantha. "The Creative World of Small Press Publishing" (Ottawa Citizen)

The Modern Poetry Collection (Carleton University)

Betts, Gregory. "The Rise of the Small Press Movement in Canada" (William Ready Archives, McMaster University)

Small Presses (Canadian Encyclopedia)

## Recommended Background Reading

The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada. Eds. Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: Ryerson, 1967.

Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Ed. Eli Mandel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Atwood, Margaret. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1972.

Beaulieu, Derek, and Jason Christie, eds., Open Letter 12.4, Fall 2004.

Birney, Earle. Spreading Time: Remarks on Canadian Writing and Writers, Book 1, 1904-1949. Montreal: Vehicule, 1980.

Brown, E.K. On Canadian Poetry. Ottawa, Tecumseh, 1977.

Butling, Pauline; Rudy, Susan. Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003).  Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.

Cain, Stephen, ed., Open Letter 11.6, Fall 2002.

Davis, Roger Paul. A bibliographical index and critical history of "Open Letter". Ph.D. diss., University of Calgary, 2002. ProQuest.

Doyle, James. "Literary Magazines and the Cosmopolitan/Nationalism Debate in Canada." Context North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations. Ed. Camille R. La Bossiere. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1994.

Dudek, Louis. Literature and the Press. Toronto: Ryerson/Contact, 1960.

Eggleston, Wilfrid. The Frontier & Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson, 1957.

Francis, Wynne. "The Expanding Spectrum: Literary Magazines." Canadian Literature, No. 57, Summer 1973, 6-17.

-----------. "Literary Underground: Little Magazines in Canada." Canadian Literature. No. 34, Autumn 1967, 63-70.

-----------. "The Little Magazine/Small Press Movement and Canadian Poetry in English Since 1950." Laurentian University Review, 10, No. 2, February 1978, 89-109.

-----------. "The Little Presses." Canadian Literature, No. 33, Summer 1967, 56-62.

Frye, Northrop. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971.

Gnarowski, Michael. *A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature.* Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.

Irvine, Dean. *Editing Modernity: Women and Little-Magazine Cultures in Canada, 1916-1956.*Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Kronfeld, Chana. On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics. Berkely: University of California Press, 1996.

McCutcheon, Sarah. "Little Presses in Canada." Canadian Literature, No. 57 (Summer 1973).

Norris, Ken. The Little Magazine in Canada 1925-80: Its Role in the Development of Modernism and Post-Modernism in Canadian Poetry. Toronto: ECW Press, 1984.

-----------. "The Little Magazines." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 10 (Spring 1978).

-----------."The Vital Necessity for Experimentation & Regionalism." Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 11 (Summer 1978).

Stevens, Peter. "Experimental Poetry Since 1950." *Laurentian University Review,*10, No. 2 (Feb.1978).

Woodcock, George. Poets and Critics: Essays from Canadian Literature 1966-1974. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1974.