A ‘best of’ list of 2024 Canadian poetry books

Once more, I offer my annual list of theseemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating” (given ‘best’ is such an inconclusive,imprecise designation), constructed from the list of Canadian poetry titlesI’ve managed to review throughout the past year. See my fourteenth annual list over at the dusie blog here, along with links to all of my prior lists. Can you believe it has been fourteen years sincedusie-maven Susana Gardner originally suggested various dusie-esque poets writeup their own versions of same? Once again, I thank her both for the ongoingopportunity, and her original prompt.

Thisyear’s list features a small handful of non-fiction/prose titles, and more thanfifty full-length poetry titles by Fawn Parker, M.W. Jaeggle, RobertColeman, Chimwemwe Undi, Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Rob Manery, Allie Duff,Nicholas Bradley, Chuqiao Yang, Johanna Skibsrud, Matt Rader, Sarah Burgoyne& Vi Khi Nao, Kim Trainor, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Faith Arkorful, BrenSimmers, Hamish Ballantyne, Michael Turner, Sylvia Legris, Shō Yamagushiku, Concetta Principe,Margaret Christakos, Dawn Macdonald, Simina Banu, Domenica Martinello, TiaMcLennan, Jennifer May Newhook, Michael Goodfellow, Britta Badour, R Kolewe,Tonya Lailey, jaz papadopoulos, Ben Robinson (twice!), Clare Goulet, ChrisTurnbull, Stuart Ross, Melanie Siebert, Keagan Hawthorne, AJ Dolman, DaleMartin Smith, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Zoe Whittall, Kevin Stebner and JaclynPiudik. Go take a look at my amazing list! With direct links to each of the publisher's page to order direct, as well as to my original review as well.