Description
Selected by editor Tolu Oloruntoba, the 2027 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in the past year.
Featuring a foreword by series editor Anita Lahey, and afterword by guest editor Tolu Oloruntoba, Best Canadian Poetry 2027 offers a collection of brief but impactful glimpses into our current literary landscape, that expands our worldview and continues in the series tradition of asking: What constitutes a great poem?
Featuring:
Ambrose Albert • Kazim Ali • David Barrick • Adam Beardsworth • Dominique Bernier-Cormier • Lindsay Bird • Ronna Bloom • Julie Bruck • Noah Cain • Jennifer Cassidy • Rocco de Giacomo • Sadiqa de Meijer • Shauna Deathe • Antony Di Nardo • Maria Giesbrecht • Susan Gillis • Brook Houglum • Jess Housty • Danielle Hubbard • Jim Johnstone • Wren Jones • Dennis Lee • Y.S. Lee • Jennifer Manuel • Amanda Merritt • Lochlan Moorlag • Jonathan Moskaluk • Anna Navarro • Bahar Orang • Jessica Popeski • Natalie Rice • Ben Robinson • Georgio Russell • Leah Schnurr • Nicholas Selig • Paul Sheppard • Adam Sol • Misha Solomon • Vanessa Stauffer • Terese Svoboda • Anna Swanson • Rob Taylor • Terry Trowbridge • Paul Vermeersch • katherena vermette • Jade Wallace • Tom Wayman • Sarah Wolfson • Ata Zargarof • Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Praise for Best Canadian Poetry
“A magnet, I think, for the many people who would like to know contemporary poetry.”
—A.F. Moritz, Griffin Poetry Prize winner
“The wide range of writers, forms and themes represented here make it a great jumping-off point for readers who might be interested in Canadian poetry but are unsure about where to start.”
—Globe and Mail
“One of the gifts America gave Canadian poetry was Molly Peacock, a famed poet who, upon arrival in Toronto, originated the Best Canadian Poetry series, transplanting your grand tradition here . . . You might not be able to get the news from this book, exactly, but you can find that which will keep you from corruption yourself.”
—Shane Neilson, Washington Independent Review of Books
“One of the best things about the end of the year is having a chance to look back. The three Best Canadian volumes . . . are a snapshot of some of the finest in Canadian writing this year.”
—Robert J. Wiersema, Toronto Star
“Best Canadian Poetry is an annual treat. I love the cream-skimmed aspect, the cross-section of what people are thinking about and how they are expressing it. It’s a sort of snapshot of the Canadian poetic zeitgeist . . . I’m regretting not buying more of these.”
—Pearl Pirie, Miramichi Reader
“The anthology provides a vital aesthetic service by showing community across all this difference. We need this stuff; for one, because contemporary literature is largely defined as ‘novels.’ Storytelling is big. It has such cultural force that it even shows up in the bulk of these fifty lyrics, even though narrative is not precisely a lyric thing.”
—Harold Rhenisch, The BC Review
“Buy it, or borrow it, but do read it.”
—Arc Poetry Magazine
“[These] books are must-haves for libraries, schools, and intellectually well-intentioned bedside nightstands across the country.”
—Quill & Quire
