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In this series of poems, Stephen Scobie grapples with the effects of wide travel, poetic forbears (Rilke in particular), and his Scottish ancestry.

Stephen Scobie reflects on the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard with poems for 44 Godard films.

Re-Discover the most influential voice of our lifetime. Bob Dylan is still singing the songs which for decades have made him the most preeminent voice of our time. In this revised and much expanded edition of Stephen Scobie's landmark study of Dylan's work, the author covers all the stages of a remarkable career: from his incandescent impact on the mid-1960s, when Dylan revolutionized folk and popular music, to his later reinvention of himself...

Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas as social history and personal memoir. The resul...

A study of the interactions between poetry and painting in the 20th century, particularly the Cubist painters and the writers who were associated with them, and the later movement of Concrete Poetry.

In the summer of 1994, guided by the image of his childhood, award-winning Canadian poet Stephen Scobie returned to his native Scotland and set out on a journey that took him through the country's most beautiful and historic regions The lyrical meditations of Taking the Gate are part poetry, part prose, part travel writing, part autobiography and create an evocative account of the rediscovery of landscape and memory Photographs extend the auth...

A study of the interactions between poetry and painting in the 20th century, particularly the Cubist painters and the writers who were associated with them, and the later movement of Concrete Poetry.

This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right up to the end of 2001, the poems in this collection concentrate on the traditional lyric form, with stand-alone short poems. The book includes representative selections from all of Scobie's collections of lyric poems, as well as a significant number of poems that have not been published or have app...

Wherever his pen turns, Stephen Scobie explores the disguised self, the shadowy other. His most daring temptation has been to don the words and persona of none other than Jesus Christ. Against this startling rhetorical move, Scobie weaves his meditative, resonant long poem into an image of Christ as the both the Son of God and the intimately suffering son of humanity.