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later in life, he was married at the time to Peggy Doernbach, and threatened to sue. Sutherland printed a retraction in the following issue. The incident was little known outside of Montreal at the time, as both magazines had small, primarily local circulations, although it would come to be more
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publication of a few stapled sheets grew within three years into a larger magazine of tentatively national significance (it had editorial representatives in
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themes in Anderson's writing, and accusing Anderson of "some sexual experience of a kind not normal"; although Anderson would in fact come out as
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in Canadian literary history and as important forerunners of later critical and literary journals in Canada, such as
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although its core circulation was small—about 75 copies per issue). A year into its history, Canadian poets
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in 1956. Today, all of these publications continue to be recognized as some of the important
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with which it often shared contributors, provided one of the few publication avenues for
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from 1942 to 1945. During its short life the magazine, along with its rival publication
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to feature modernist poetry exclusively (after F.R Scott and A.J.M. Smith published
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joined the magazines editorial board; both would go on to become major figures in
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extensively analyzed in the 1990s as an important incident in the history of
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at a time when Canadian literature tended to be dominated by a more
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and his sister Betty Sutherland (both half-siblings of the actor
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In 1943, Sutherland published a review of Anderson's poetry in
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Other Canadians: An Anthology of New Poetry in Canada, 1940-46
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aesthetic in Canadian poetry, drawing inspiration from such
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after a group of John Sutherland's poems was rejected by
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John Sutherland, "The Writing of Patrick Anderson".
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Index

literary magazine
Montreal
Quebec
modernist
Canadian poetry
conservative
John Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Patrick Anderson
mimeographed
Vancouver
Louis Dudek
Irving Layton
Canadian literature
cosmopolitan
avant-garde
American poets
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
anti-modernists
W. H. Auden
Dylan Thomas
A. M. Klein
F. R. Scott
homoerotic
gay
LGBT literature
Other Canadians: An Anthology of New Poetry in Canada, 1940-46
anthology
New Provinces

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