Roger FARR

Roger FARR, BA Hons, MA (SFU)

 Roger Farr

I joined the English Dept at Cap in 2001, where I teach courses in both the Creative Writing and Culture and Technology programs. I also serve on the Board of the Capilano Press Society, and am the editor of Capilano University Editions (CUE Books). My poetry, fiction, and work for radio have appeared in numerous journals and magazines. I also publish on the subjects of radical social movements, tactical media, childhood, and the avant-garde. In 2010/11, with the support from the Capilano Faculty Association, I will be conducting research into the place of “affect” in on-line writing courses.

Some of my writing and publications:

Books

  • IKMQ (forthcoming, New Star)
  • MEANS. Burnaby, BC: LINEbooks 2010.
  • N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8.11. (w/ Reg Johanson & Aaron Vidaver) Vancouver, BC: Recomposition Books, 2008.
  • SURPLUS. Burnaby, BC: LINEbooks 2006.

Selected Critical Writing

  • “Against Stratification: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk's Ogress Oblige and the Poetics of Class Recomposition." XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 17 (2007): 34-49.
  • “Anarchist Poetics.” Fifth Estate 373 (2006): 34-38.
  • “The Democracy Service." Rev. of Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary. Eds. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr. The Poetic Front 1 (2008).
  • “Gangland and Linguistics.” Introduction to The Essence of Jargon, Alice Becker-Ho. [forthcoming, Autonomedia 2010].
  • “Intervox: Three Questions for Louis Cabri.” The Capilano Review 3:6 (2008).
  • “‘Insurrectionary Wilderness of the I': Phyllis Webb's Anarchist Poetics." West Coast Line 45 (2005): 63-76.
  • “No Nature Poetry After Eugene: Writing in the Shadow of the Green Scare.” Dandelion 35:2 (2010): 50-58.
  • “Poetic License: Hugo Ball and the Anarchist Avant-Garde.” Anarchist Studies, (Winter 2010).
  • “The Politics of Dead Air – An Interview with Marian Van Der Zon on Temporary Autonomous Radio.” Social Anarchism #43 (2009).
  • “Raoul Vaneigem.” Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History: 1600 to Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
  • “The Strategy of Concealment.” Fifth Estate 374 (2007).
  • “Surprise, Improvisation, & Unpredictability: An Interview with Fred Wah." The Capilano Review 2:48 (2006).
  • “Voices in a Public Place: A Docudrama in Seven Acts on/for Micro-radio in Canada.” Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada (New Star, 2010).
  • “Whiskerville Bake Shop & The Secret of the Commodity Form.” Rad Dad #14 (2009).

Editing

  • Editor, Capilano University Editions
  • Editor, PARSER: New Poetry & Poetics
  • Editor, Open Text: Canadian Poetry & Poetics in the 21st Century, Vol. I-III (CUE, 2008, 2009, 2011)
  • Guest Editor, “Six Cities,” The Capilano Review (2:47, Fall 2005)
  • Managing Editor (2000 – 2004), West Coast Line, Simon Fraser University, BC

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