Join us for the book launch of
Wider Boundaries of Daring:
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry
Edited by Di Brandt & Barbara Godard

Friday, November 27th, 2009 7pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (southwest corner at Spadina)
free. all welcome. refreshments provided
we regret out washroom is not wheelchair accessible

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth Brewster, Jay Macpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott, and Elizabeth Smart.

The acknowledgement of these writers' formidable contribution to the development of modernism in Canada has profound implications for the way we read and understand Canadian literary and cultural history and for the shape of both national and international modernisms.

Di Brandt is the author of seven books of poetry as well as collections of critical essays and creative essays. She holds a Canada Research Chair in creative writing at Brandon University.

Barbara Godard is Historica Chair of Canadian Literature and a professor of English, French, social and political thought, and women's studies at York University.

Co-sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University Press