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Best Canadian poetry, 2020 / guest editor, Marilyn Dumont ; series editor, Anita Lahey ; advisory editor, Amanda Jernigan.

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Biblioasis, 2020.

819.16 B561 2020

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

160 p. ; 22 cm.

Intro -- Foreword -- Weight Lifting -- Introduction -- Artist's Statement, Robyn Sarah -- As I Pray, Sanna Wani -- Avian Circulatory System, Alycia Pirmohamed -- Bee Funeral, Sadie McCarney -- Blockade, Rob Budde -- clumper crackies/Ice Pan Puppies, Geoff Pevlin -- The Clean Language List, Don Kerr -- Cree Girl Explodes the Necropolis of Ottawa, Billy-Ray Belcourt -- deeper than bone, Rita Bouvier -- Dementia and common household objects, Margret Bollerup -- Directions to the Culture Grounds, Conor Kerr -- Feeding Foxes, Tanis MacDonald -- Fig Sestina, Dell Catherall.

From Cocks to Wings, Barry Dempster -- Game Show, Jane Eaton Hamilton -- Selected Hoems, Abby Paige -- If I Die Bury Me Next To My Father, Mugabi Byenkya -- It Will Rain Like Rods on the Hillside in Sweden, Kevin Spenst -- It's Always Winter When Someone Dies, Babo Kamel -- Kris Knight, The Flying Monkey, 2014. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches., Jason Purcell -- light/cage, Erin Noteboom -- louise, Dallas Hunt -- Minimal Pairs Are Words Holding Hands, Selina Boan -- Never Put a Poem Off, Adele Wiseman -- News Today, Nyla Matuk -- Ode to the Potato, Fiona Tinwei Lam -- Odiama, Erín Moure.

Origin Story, Kazim Ali -- pahpowin, Samantha Nock -- Pegging Out Washing, Frances Boyle -- Pink Mints, Armand Garnet Ruffo -- Poem for unwilling mothers, Rebecca Salazar -- The Process of Growth, Ashley Hynd -- Remember When, Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer -- River People, Di Brandt -- A Room of My Own, Maureen Scott Harris -- Salutations from the Storm, John Elizabeth Stintzi -- the science of holding on, Natalie Lim -- Selkirk, Manitoba, Brandi Bird -- Shame: a love letter., Ivan Coyote -- a simple instruction, Tara McGowan-Ross -- the stopped clock, Amber Dawn -- Stutters, Roger Nash.

Thin-Skinned, Susan Haldane -- 3:00 a.m., Tim Bowling -- Three for One, Margaret Christakos -- To Whyt/Anthology/Editors, Andrea Thompson -- 12 Rules for Gatekeeping, Kyle Flemmer -- Waves, Jana Prikryl -- Weight, Erin Soros -- Contributors' Commentary and Biographies -- Notable Poems of 2019 -- Magazines Consulted -- Index to Poets -- Acknowledgements -- Editor Biographies -- Copyright.

“What is a best poem?” asks Best Canadian Poetry 2020 guest editor Marilyn Dumont, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of four poetry collections. “A best poem fulfills the promise set out in its first syllable, word, syntax, line break, and soundscape to its reader/listener. The work required to complete a poem takes risk, skill, and practice, and the poems selected for this anthology all exhibit such attributes.” In precise language that exposes the attitudes inherent in English, innovative forms that illuminate their content, and mastery of music akin to a composer’s score, the fifty poems collected here fulfill their promises and, in doing so, demonstrate the country’s rich diversity and talent for invention -- and the promises it might fulfill as well.

Canadian poetry.

Dumont, Marilyn, 1955-

Jernigan, Amanda, 1978-

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