The Danforth Review - TDR provides fiction, reviews and articles about the Canadian literary world.
Bookninja - Bookninja is updated daily with links to articles of interest, and more.
GoodReports - Alex Good brings us daily links, essays, reviews and more.
Poetics - Another Canadian site, and "a forum for inclusive, open dialogue about poetics."
PoetryReviews.ca - Another site for reviews of Canadian poetry books.
The Griffin Trust - The Griffin Trust for excellence in poetry.
Contemporary Poetry Review - Reviews, interviews and articles.
PoetryX - Many archived poems, and much more.
Quill and Quire - The blog for Quill and Quire magazine.
Eyewear - Canadian poet Todd Swift is currently based in London and his blog features a weekly nod to another poet.
Tyee Books - Based in British Columbia and designed as an accessible, free forum on books.
Bywords.ca - Publishing established and emerging poets who live and work in Ottawa.
Places for Writers - links to Canadian writers' sites, updated with information about grants, awards, calls for submission and more.
Literature in Review - a Journal of arts and ideas.
Digital Popcorn - Mildly askew film reviews by a literary dude.
Ten years ago we worked together at Chapters, and here we are in 2007, both of us with first books published this year. Aside from feeling I'm getting on a bit, I remember a poem of yours where you talk about carrying around The Collected Works of Billy the Kid on your back as though "an extra muscle"; did it help inspire this collection about another historical figure?
Yes, I remember that old poem, too. And, yeah, you're right: Ondaatje's early work made a big impression on me back when I was a wide-eyed, and under-read undergraduate student. I'd never heard of an author re-shuffling or re-inventing history, and had never read a contemporary longpoem before. I'd also never seen an author approach historiography or history as...continue reading
Gleaned from his four previous collections and garnished with more than a dozen new poems, Todd Swift's 'Seaway' is both a 'greatest hits' collection for those who've already read this verbally athletic Canadian-born poet at length and a comprehensive introduction for those on the European side of the Atlantic who have had, so far, only the occasional chance to get a taste of his work at the jostling, competitive buffet known as English language poetry. As such, it is long overdue. Swift, after all, has been a tireless champion of a distinctively cosmopolitan, open-minded, post-modernist strand of contemporary writing for quite some time and his work as an editor and ferociously scrupulous blogger in Budapest, Paris and, latterly, London has all too frequently occluded his reputation as a poet with a singular ability to be simultaneously learned, playful and profound...continue reading