Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"Anthologies like Modern Canadian Poets are vital in keeping our beliefs off balance. They are vents for the sense of contingency that oxygenizes every era with doubts. By marshalling an otherwise random bunch of poets and pointing them in a new direction, rebooters Swift and [Jones] have created an imaginary zone of real facts to unpin our shared recognitions." --Quill and Quire (April 2011)