Transformations of contemporary canadian poetry in english

Douglas Barbour, poet, critic, and reviewer, is a Professor of English at the University of Alberta, where he has taught creative writing, poetry, Canadian literature, twentieth century poetry and poetics, and science fiction and fantasy. His critical works include Daphne Marlatt and Her Works, John Newlove and His Works, bpNichol and His Works (ECW Press 1992) and Michael Ondaatje (Twayne Pub-lishers 1993). His books of poetry include Yisible Yisions: The Selected Poems of Douglas Barbour (NeWest Press 1984), which won Albertas Stephan Stephannson Award for poetry, and Story for a Saskatchewan Night (rdc press 1989). Recent books of poetry are Fragmenting Body etc. (NeWest Press 2000), Breath Takes (Wolsak & Wynn 2002), and A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathouse books 2003). Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry ap-peared from NeWest Press in 2001. His essays and poems have been published in Australia, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, New Zealand, and the United States. He has read his poetry and lectured in these places as well, and with Stephen Scobie as the Sound Poetry ensemble, Re: Sound-ing, in Canada, the U.S., Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Ger-many, and Australia & New Zealand. He was inaugurated into the City of Edmonton Cultural Hałl of Fame in 2003.