The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), on which I watch news from Vancouver and CFL football, bravely and/or blithely provided its list of top ten (living) Canadian poets a while ago. One can only imagine the cacophony of questions and exclamations such a list engendered. Actually, one cannot only imagine because there are 27 comments on the story, to be found at . . .
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/05/19/f-best-poets-canada.html
What are the criteria? Whose list? How can you leave off [ ]? And so forth.
With the cacophony and caveats in mind, then, here's the list (one point being . . . read some poems by these writers if you haven't already):
Don McKay
Ken Babstock
Mary Dalton
Dionne Brand
Don Domanski
David McGimsey
Skydancer Louise Bernice Halfe
Jeremy Dodds
Erin Moure [accent on the last e]
Sheri-D Wilson
Thanks for the list, CBC.
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