{"product_id":"9781927426364","title":"Language Matters: Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs writing in English in Quebec these days a political act? An act of survival? An act of defiance? An act of futility?  An act of celebration? In this book, some of the best and most innovative English-language poets of Canada -- rising stars and award-winning authors -- reflect on questions of politics and poetics. What's it like to be a minority within a minority, to write in the dominant language of North America  -- English -- in a province where official \" language police\" patrol the highways and byways looking for missing accents, illegal apostrophes and on\/off switches in the wrong language? A place where (sign) size matters and people have to mind their P's and Q's when greeting strangers in their \"langue seconde.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose interviewed include Erin Moure and Stephanie Bolster (winners, Governor General's Award); GG nominee David McGimpsey; Trillium Prize nominee Mary di Michele; Susan Gillis and Gabe Foreman (winners, A.M. Klein Poetry Prize), Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas (winners, Zebra International Poetry Film Festival, Berlin); performance poets Catherine Kidd, Moe Clark and kaie kellough; and Rhodes scholar Mark Abley -- all contemplating the work they do against the backdrop of this interesting place and time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Signature Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171273752816,"sku":"9781927426364","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927426364_p0.jpg?v=1763636284","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927426364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}