Modern Canadian poetry
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited with an introduction by Evan Jones and Todd Swift Evan Jones
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781857549386
Subjects: Canadian poetry; French-Canadian poetry
Description: Overview: 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.