Nationality Canadian Name Gregory Betts | Role Poet Alma mater Queen's University | |
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Books The Obvious Flap, If Language, Avant‑garde Canadian Literature, Psychic Geographies and Other, The Others Raisd [sic] in Me: 15 Similar People Gary Barwin, Derek Beaulieu, Bill bissett, Bertram Brooker | ||
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Gregory Betts (born 1975) is a Canadian poet, editor and professor.
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- igniteto gregory betts poets against authorship
- Poetry london presents gregory betts
- Life and work
- Reception
- Works
- Poetry books
- As editor
- Artworks and Exhibitions
- References
He is an associate professor at Brock University with a speciality in Canadian and avant-garde literature. He is the author of five books of poetry, editor of five books of experimental writing in Canada.
Poetry london presents gregory betts
Life and work
Betts was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but was raised in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from Queen’s University with a BA in English in 1998. He studied with Stephen Scobie, Misao Dean, Smaro Kamboureli, and George Bowering at the University of Victoria, where he graduated with an MA in 2000. Betts received his PhD in English literature from York University, supervised by John Lennox, Steve McCaffery, and Ray Ellenwood. He is an associate professor at Brock University with a speciality in Canadian and Avant-Garde Literature. He is the author of five books of poetry, editor of five books of experimental writing in Canada. He writes for The Canadian Encyclopaedia and his work is included in the anthologies Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011) and The Sonnets: Translating & Rewriting Shakespeare (2012). In addition to his books, Betts is the author of chapbooks and text collaborations with visual artists, including Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel, and Neil Hennessy. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario with his wife and two children and directs The Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University.
Reception
The University of Toronto Quarterly wrote, "Betts has created not only an invaluable archive of what it means to be 'modern' in Canada - the writings read like a cross-section of compacted layers social, material, and spiritual crisis in urban and rural Canada...but to the wider context of aesthetic, political, and spiritual fault lines of modern culture in English Canada."