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Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology
With contributions from 35 poets, this diverse compilation features the spectrum of Canadian poetry from the last hundred years. Representing various styles and traditions, it explores a lineage of modernist, multilingual, and culturally pluralist perspectives. Writers from the First Nations, the Caribbean-Canadian, and the Africadian—or Black Canadian—communities present an eloquent and cosmopolitan collection that will redefine the connections between Canada and the poetry world at large.
260 pages, Paperback
First published November 29, 2010
About the author
Evan Jones
5 books2 followersEvan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005.
He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010).
Research interests include contemporary poetry and fiction, literature in translation, and post-colonial literature.
He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010).
Research interests include contemporary poetry and fiction, literature in translation, and post-colonial literature.
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June 5, 2011
'Modern Canadian Poets' gets me excited about Canadian poetry again.
It's a fresh look at poets not often featured together in one anthology, and it's about time. Haven't felt this way since the early 90's at Queen's University, Ontario, when I was taught for a year by the great George Elliot Clarke as my TA, and got to have lunch and talk poetry with Stephen Heighton (and the late great short story writer Norman Levine) at Chez Piggy's -both at that time just making their mark on the poetry scene. I've read them both, but not in an anthology that offers so many poets from different communities and poetic ages. At Queen's, I studied Hébert, but in a separate anthology of French Canadian lit. I studied Klein and Ross and Layton, but again, in separate musty ol anthologies of 'war time poets.'
How wonderful to have all these poets and some other poets born in the early 60's I've yet to come across, all together in one volume. I'm staying up late reading this baby cover to cover (and I'm not a night owl). Kudos to you and Evan Jones for taking the road less traveled.
Yes - Atwood and Ondaatje and a few others are missing - but the editors never professed this to be an exhaustive collection. It's a collection of poets lesser known to British readers, and also focuses on poets who haven't veered into fiction/novels as their main profession.
I will be reading this one and referring back to it for years to come.
It's a fresh look at poets not often featured together in one anthology, and it's about time. Haven't felt this way since the early 90's at Queen's University, Ontario, when I was taught for a year by the great George Elliot Clarke as my TA, and got to have lunch and talk poetry with Stephen Heighton (and the late great short story writer Norman Levine) at Chez Piggy's -both at that time just making their mark on the poetry scene. I've read them both, but not in an anthology that offers so many poets from different communities and poetic ages. At Queen's, I studied Hébert, but in a separate anthology of French Canadian lit. I studied Klein and Ross and Layton, but again, in separate musty ol anthologies of 'war time poets.'
How wonderful to have all these poets and some other poets born in the early 60's I've yet to come across, all together in one volume. I'm staying up late reading this baby cover to cover (and I'm not a night owl). Kudos to you and Evan Jones for taking the road less traveled.
Yes - Atwood and Ondaatje and a few others are missing - but the editors never professed this to be an exhaustive collection. It's a collection of poets lesser known to British readers, and also focuses on poets who haven't veered into fiction/novels as their main profession.
I will be reading this one and referring back to it for years to come.
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