In the days before poetry readings became so ubiquitious, however, some of our best poets recorded their work. Canadian poet Anne Carson is a recluse, not given to public contact with the outside world. Michael Ondaatje says she is 'the most exciting poet writing in English today'. Turns out personal service counts on the web as well. A new biography examines the difficulties of reading in a Hegelian world.
Summer vacation is over and in France publishers are ready.
Editors, booksellers and critics agree that the market cannot absorb the flood of new books, that many are doomed to sink even before they appear. Veteran writers who are bombarding the bookshops with tomes on how British culture is going down the tubes. The Griffin Poetry Prize will rank as one of the most valuable literary awards to originate in Canada and certainly the Canadian English-Canadian prize with the most international scope. The fine print in the recently published Oxford Companion to Australian Film suggests otherwise. It's a bold and controversial charge, and one that has stirred up a considerable storm Down Under.