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Canadian poet and scholar
Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at
York University . He currently holds the
David Gray Chair at the
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York .
[1] McCaffery was born in
Sheffield , England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending
University of Hull .
He moved to
Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets
Rafael Barreto-Rivera ,
Paul Dutton , and
bpNichol , forming the
sound-poetry group,
The Four Horsemen . Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of
syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response.
[2] He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.
[3]
Bibliography
Carnival – 1967–1975
[4]
postmark canadada – 1970
Ground Plans for a Speaking City - 1970
Transitions To The Beast – 1970
Maps – 1971
Collborations (with bpNichol) – 1972
Broken Mandala – 1974
Dr. Sadhu's Muffins – 1974
Ow's Waif – 1975
from The Abstract Ruin – 1976
Shifters – 1976
The Story So Four (edited with bpNichol)
Crown's Creek (with Steven Smith) – 1978
Research on the Mouth – 1978 (cassette)
Wot We Wukkers Want – 1978 (cassette)
Sound Poetry: A Catalogue (edited with bpNichol) – 1978; reprinted 2010
Intimate Distortions – 1979
In England Nw That Spring (with bpNichol) – 1979; reprinted 1984
Canadian Pataphysics (edited with bpNichol) – 1980; reprinted 2000
The Perseus Project: Paleogorgonization and the Sexual Life of Fossils – 1981
Manicured Noise (with Richard Truhlar) – 1981 (cassette)
Avoiding the Beautiful (with Whitney Smith) – 1982
Knowledge Never Knew – 1983
Panopticon – 1984
North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973–1986 – 1986
Evoba – 1987
The Black Debt – 1989
Theory of Sediment – 1991 (nominated for a
Governor General's Award )
McCaffery, Steve &
bpNichol (1992). Rational geomancy : the kids of the book-machine : the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982 . Vancouver: Talonbooks.
The Cheat of Words – 1996
Seven Pages Missing – 2000 (nominated for a
Governor General's Award )
Imagining Language (edited with Jed Rasula) – 2001
Prior to Meaning: The Protosematic and Poetics – 2001
The Basho Variations – 2007
Language to Cover a Wall (edited with Michael Basinski & Karen Mac Cormack) – 2011
Tatterdemalion: A Sketch-Book for Syntax - 2014
Pataphonix: Selected Sound Poems - 2019 (CD)
Carnival: The Complete Edition - 2021
with Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol)
Nada Canadada – 1972 (vinyl LP); reïssued 1977 (cassette); reïssued 2018 (vinyl LP)
Horse d'Oeuvres - 1975 (book)
Live In The West – 1977 (vinyl LP)
A Little Nastiness – 1980 (book)
Bootleg – 1981 (cassette)
The Prose Tattoo – 1983 (book)
2 Nights – 1988 (cassette)
Critical studies and reviews of McCaffery's work
Rational geomancy
See also
References
External links
International National Artists Other