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Roger FARR

Roger FARR, BA Hons, MA (SFU)

 Roger Farr

Roger Farr joined the English Dept at Cap in 2001, where he is affiliated with both the Creative Writing and Culture and Technology programs, and is current Editor of Capilano University Editions. The author of a book of poetry, SURPLUS, and co-author of the collaborative research project N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8.11, his creative and critical writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and has been heard on the airwaves of Anarchy Radio (Eugene, Oregon); Free Radio Olympia and KAOS FM (Washington State); Tree Frog Radio (Denman Island, BC); and Temporary Autonomous Radio (Anywhere). Beyond the university, Roger is a member of the Pacific Institute of Language and Literacy Studies (PILLS), and the editor of PARSER: New Poetry and Poetics.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Critical theory; culture and social movements; “everyday life”; history of the avant-garde; poetics; radical media and communication; writing and writing pedagogies.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8.11, w/ Reg Johanson & Aaron Vidaver (Recomposition, 2008)
  • SURPLUS (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. [Revised version forthcoming in The Post-Anarchism Reader. Pluto Press, 2010.]
  • “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.
  • “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, 2010)
  • 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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