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Since the early 1990s, Montreal’s David McGimpsey has been producing his unique, pop-acculturated poetry and fiction, indebted in equal parts to TV shows such as Hawaii Five-0 and Charlie’s Angels as well as Shakespearean tragedy and the Miltonic elegy. His poems and performances have garnered a wide readership and popular acclaim across North America. Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey gathers together, for the first time, a collection of essays that serve to highlight and explicate the scope and complexity of McGimpsey’s poetic practice. The collected essays (by lauded poets and scholars such as Nick Mount, Jason Camlot and Elizabeth Bachinsky) examine McGimpsey’s various positions on literary history, class, nationalism, humor, love, and aesthetics, all of which are often mutually imbricated in McGimpsey’s work. The book concludes with an entertaining and enlightening in-depth interview with McGimpsey, where he discusses, with all the wit and keen critical acumen we’ve come to expect, everything from his early experiences growing up in Montreal’s East-End to the prospect of sympathy in and through poetry. Population Me is a timely addition to Canadian letters and a collection that makes clear McGimpsey’s significant contribution to contemporary Canadian literature.

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Sympathetic Core

ALESSANDRO PORCO

The Passion of David McGimpsey

NICK MOUNT

The Couch Poetato: Television People in the Poetry of David McGimpsey

JASON CAMLOT

Satiric Play in David McGimpsey’s Sport-Centered Poems

DAVID VANDERWERKEN

Objects, Still and Moving: Culture and Agency in the Short Fictions of David McGimpsey

L.E. VOLLICK

Codes of Maturity and the Impasse of Rock

ALESSANDRO PORCO

CanLit™: National Branding and Canadian Literary Identity in David McGimpsey’s Poetics

COURTNEY RICHARDSON

An Appetite Abroad; or, David McGimpsey’s Burgerworld and the Map of  Contemporary Poetry

V. NICHOLAS LOLORDO

Disaster Poem

PAUL VERMEERSCH

On David McGimpsey’s Sitcom

ELIZABETH BACHINSKY

“Gone A-Whalin’”: An Interview with David McGimpsey

JASON CAMLOT AND ALESSANDRO PORCO