Abstracts
Abstract
Quebec has been home to a rich and vibrant English-language literary community since the nineteenth century. The rise of the Canadian small-press movement in the 1960s gave way to a revival of the English-language publishing industry in Montreal, which had considerably dwindled at the turn of the twentieth century. Poets benefited greatly from this phenomenon, and literary coteries of poets were formed as a result, in particular the Vehicule Poets, associated with the Véhicule Art Gallery and with Véhicule Press in the early 1970s, and a group of poets who were associated with New Delta and later with the Signal Editions poetry series. This paper focuses on the ways in which literary circles are formed and how they might be identified, and uses the Jubilate Circle, a group of poets revolving around Signal Editions and consisting of Michael Harris, David Solway, Carmine Starnino and Eric Ormsby, as a case study.
Résumé
Depuis le dix-neuvième siècle, le Québec compte une importante communauté littéraire anglophone. Celle-ci souffre considérablement de la migration des producteurs et artisans du livre vers Toronto au tournant du vingtième siècle, mais la montée des petites maisons d’édition régionales, dans les années 1960, favorise la renaissance de l’industrie du livre anglais à Montréal, phénomène qui bénéficiera aux poètes anglophones de cette ville. De petits groupes littéraires se forment, notamment celui des Vehicule Poets, sept poètes associés à la galerie d’art Véhicule au début des années 1970, ainsi que celui des auteurs publiés dans la collection de poésie de New Delta puis de Signal Editions. Cet article se propose d’étudier la formation et la fonction de réseaux littéraires par l’entremise du cas du Jubilate Circle, cercle littéraire gravitant autour de Signal Editions et composé de Michael Harris, Carmine Starnino, David Solway et Eric Ormsby.
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