A collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing "publics", "poetry", and "poetics" from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term.
Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that asks hard questions about who and what count as "publics" in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics.