Poems from the Plunderverse will explore the knotty questions of where poems come from, what role the author has in their own poems, and who made all the rules anyways? The answer is shown through a variety of limit case experiments in literary form into the realm of conceptual poetics, visual poetry, collaborative and constraint-based writing that all rules of language were made to be broken, bent, and twisted into something new.

Gregory Betts is an experimental poet with 11 poetry collections published in Canada, the United States, and Ireland. His books explore conceptual, collaborative, and concrete poetics. He has produced two exhaustive, prize-winning academic studies of avant-garde writing in Canada, Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (2013) and Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959-1975 (2020), both with University of Toronto Press. His most recent books include Foundry (Redfoxpress, Ireland, 2021), a collection of visual poems inspired by a font named after a 15th century poet, and The Fabulous Op (Beir Bua Press, Ireland, 2022), a collaborative epigenetic romp through the canon with Gary Barwin. He lives in St. Catharines, Ontario

Agora (B1-2002)