Gregory Betts

My current work addresses avant-garde literature in Vancouver from 1961 to 1975, exploring the heteroglossic aesthetic and political communities that were active in the city during that time: including, particularly, visual poetics, surrealist modalities, Marxisms, and the lingering legacy of Modernism.

Recent Publications:

Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

“The Transnational Agenda of Lewis and Pound’s Avant-Garde.” Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing. Ed. Cecilia Alvstad, Stefan Helgesson, and David Watson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 209-220.

“A Postmodern Decadence in Canadian Sound and Visual Poetry.” Re:Reading the Postmodern. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010. 151-179.

Editor and Introduction. The Wrong World: Bertram Brooker’s Stories and Essays. Ottawa: The University of Ottawa Press, 2009.

“Non compos mentis: A Meta-Historical Survey of the Historiographic Narratives of Louis Riel’s ‘Insanity’”. International Journal of Canadian Studies. 40 (Spring 2009).

Editor and Introduction. Lawren Harris In the Ward: His Poetry and Painting. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2007.

Editor and Introduction. After Exile: A Raymond Knister Poetry Reader. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2003. Second edition 2011.

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Research Interests:

Canadian Literature

Avant-Garde Literature

Adaptation and Translation Theory

Contemporary Poetry

Canadian Studies

Archival and Editorial Theory