Most anagrammaticians satisfy their urge with the rearranged name of a celebrity (Marshall McLuhan = Malls launch harm) or perhaps, if more adventurous, a familiar aphorism (The Medium is the Message = The Media is the Muse's Gem). The true devotees of the clan turn to games like Scrabble and Humbug. Gregory Betts' If Language takes this one-time parlour game to its evolutionary extreme - constructing 56 paragraph-long perfect anagrams of an original seed-text. Each poem is exactly 525 letters: the same letters that echo throughout radically different forms. If Language asks: what are the limits of individuality within a closed system? Betts explores this question with humour, intellect, and with a manic obsession capable of turning a simple game into this wildly original exploration.
Finding Nothing explores the eruption of avant-garde writing in Vancouver that re-invented the culture of the city in the second half of the twentieth century.
Sweet Forme presents seven visualizations of the sound-pattern, the hidden BardCode, of Shakespeare's sonnets in a new full-colour, softcover edition. Following the Bard's own scheme, Sweet Forme reveals the complete rhymes for the very first time. Compiled and with an introduction by Gregory Betts.
In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century. Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by established and emerging scholars, this collection presents contemporary initiatives in digital humanities alongside a reassessment of the field’s legacy to date and conversations about its future potential. It also offers a historical view of the important, yet largely unknown, digital projects in Canada. Future Horizons offers deep dives into projects that enlist a diverse range of approaches—from digital games to makerspaces, sound archives to born-digital poetry, visual arts to digital textual analysis—and that work with both historical and contemporary Canadian materials. The essays demonstrate how these diverse approaches challenge disciplinary knowledge by enabling humanities researchers to ask new questions. The collection challenges the idea that there is either a single definition of digital humanities or a collective national identity. By looking to digital engagements with race, Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality—not to mention history, poetry, and nationhood—this volume expands what it means to work at the intersection of digital humanities and humanities in Canada today. Available formats: trade paperback, accessible PDF, and accessible ePub
Gregory was born February 9, 1959, Columbus, Ohio, having two loving parents, raising five children, three boys and two girls. They spent the early part of our childhood growing up in the inner-city urban projects. Their parents were very support of Gregory and his sibling’s activities. At a young age Gregory had challenges of dealing with bullies, racism and rejection of what people thought of hm. He wanted to make a change in his life; he got interested in self-defense and started to research martial arts and the different disciplines. He then asked his my mother to sign him up for martial arts lessons, which she did. Gregory learned how to defend and went on to be a World Martial Arts Champion. He retired from competition and joined the Columbus, Ohio Police Department, receiving a created job in the community relations bureau (PAL). Gregory was well liked and very ambitious, he had an out of the box attitude, that created some friction between the police department and the Korean Masters Martial Arts Association. Years later both the police department and Korean Masters Association acknowledge his efforts and showed their gratitude by awarding him with honorable Awards.
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