I recently posted my third annual 'best of' list over at the dusie blog. What is this “best” that you
speak of, and how does one measure? I’ve always taken such lists (including
award shortlists) as not a suggestion of what to read, but a suggestion of what
else to read.
In
no particular order, here is a list of twenty Canadian poetry titles published
in 2013 that I think require further attention: Jay MillAr, Timely Irreverence; Gregory Betts, This Is Importance: A Student’s Guide to
Literature; David Dowker and Christine Stewart, Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal; Jon Paul Fiorentino, Needs Improvement; Shane Rhodes, X: Poems & Anti-Poems; Margaret
Christakos, Multitudes; Sandra
Ridley, The Counting House; Sadiqa de
Meijer, Leaving Howe Island; Jordan
Abel, the place of scraps; Dennis
Cooley, the stones; Peter Culley, Parkway; Larissa Lai and Rita Wong, Sybil Unrest; Phil Hall, The Small Nouns Crying Faith; Kim
Minkus, Tuft; Paul Zits, Massacre Street; Stephen Collis, To the Barricades; Daphne Marlatt, Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now;
Shannon Maguire, fur(l) parachute; Jenna
Butler, seldom seen road; and Sylvia
Legris, Pneumatic Antiphonal.
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