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.
Canadians have an odd relationship to the U.S. We define ourselves against them, first of all. Many of us in urban centres find guns appalling, our history is closer to compromise than conflict, possibly born out of the need to accommodate both French and English, and the same need has introduced a greater love -- at least in theory -- of diversity, and a recognition diversity is a strength, not a weakness. There is a distinct Canadian identity that Canadians...continue reading
Your second collection of poems, The Cold Panes of Surfaces, is out now. Your first book, Bonfires, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award in 2004. Did winning a national award for your first book bolster your artistic confidence while working on your second, or did you find it daunting, as though you had more to live up to than other poets working on a second collection?
I think it certainly gave me a boost of confidence and the permission I needed to do what I wanted to do artistically with the second book. I didn't feel any outside pressure because of winning the CAA award, or feel that I had any expectations to live up to. Winning the award was terrific, and it was good publicity, but it was also an education on how fleeting such praise can be, and how it leaves your writing life virtually...continue reading