Canada

Abstract

Switch, a view of Canadian science-oriented poetry, and of the poetry industry in general, from his perspective as a poet, editor and physiologist.At least in the limited terms of success in publishing, Johnstone, like Dimaline, had a good year. Another productive writer was the scholar and poet Nicholas Bradley, who published three essays [Criticism: General Studies]. And the writer and scholar David Chariandy's work was the subject of three studies, the most of any author-focused study in 2023, with the exception of a special issue on the writing of Dionne Brand. Camille Issacs published "Written on the Body: Personal Monumentalization in the Work of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt," while Basmah Rahman wrote "Silenced Resilience: Models of Survival in David Chariandy's Brother." James Boekner McKenna added "Trinidadian/Canadian Food and the Fiction of Belonging in David Chariady's Brother" [Criticism: Studies of Individual Writers].Also on food, Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd and Alexia Moywer continued their longstanding research project with Canadian Literary Fare. The importance of social gatherings that can often involve food is also relayed in the Métis scholar and artist Warren Cariou's "Toward a Hermeneutics of Visiting." Connected scholarship appears in Inuit, Mi'kmaq, and Irish-Canadian scholar Kristina Fagan Bidwell's "Revisiting in Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition." Bidwell's work often emphasizes the multiple, connective origins of cultural, intellectual work, and we hear an echo in Hannah Godfrey's Critical Fictions, a study of queer visual art and the felt closeness of scholarship that engages with it. The echo reverberates in Klara du Plessis's study of criticism as collaboration with literature, I'mpossible collab. This book also speaks to the role of criticism in creative writing as described in Christl Verduyn's Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists [all in Criticism: General Studies].As a critic who dabbles in various arts, I would have preferred a more creative, literary and aesthetic conclusion to this bibliography, but sometimes function trumps form.