If you are interested in contemporary Canadian poetics and would also like to know what's going on in Canada's literary scene, then I recommend you check out the new issue of Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers & Writers.

Inside this issue you can find some interesting articles by and about poets and writers who I think are doing some really exciting things in CanLit. The articles that piqued my interest most are:

AYMSI: The Hostility Suite by Jon Paul Fiorentino (author of the uber funny Asthmatica)

How the author half lives by Jay MillAr (author of False Maps for Other Creatures) and/or Stephen Cain (author of American Standard/Canada Dry)

The electricity of pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline by Dani Couture (an article about The Perpetual Motion Roadshow)

Superbole sundae by Alessandro Porco (a review of Jason Camlot's Attention All Typewriters by the author of The Jill Kelly Poems)

The November/December 2005 issue of Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers & Writers is available to download online here.

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